DC has agreed to pay out a $5.1 million settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by gun owners who alleged the district violated their Second Amendment rights with laws prohibiting the carrying of firearms in public.
“In an unexpected twist, the court found that because the violation of FACE—in this case—was a crime of ‘violence,’ all five defendants must be immediately incarcerated.”
A federal appeals court has ruled that officials in the Washington D.C. local government could be sued for selectively enforcing a property defacement statute to punish pro-life activists who wrote a pro-life message in chalk on a city sidewalk, while ignoring similar but more permanent actions by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists.