While Justice Clarence Thomas spent 63 pages in a 6-3 majority opinion Thursday painstakingly explaining the court's reasons for striking down a New York conceal carry gun law and changing the way judges will analyze a host of other gun regulations going forward, his colleague Samuel Alito took a different tack.
Already, the liberals and conservatives have openly sparred in opinions. On Tuesday, for instance, Justice Sonia Sotomayor ended one dissent in a religious liberty case that broke down along ideological lines with this warning: "With growing concern for where this Court will lead us next, I respectfully dissent."In his concurrence in the gun case he took on the liberal dissent penned by Justice Stephen Breyer and joined by Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan.
Breyer said such an approach would hurt state efforts in a broader context and referenced the fact that since the start of the year there have been 277 reported mass shootings. Turning to Breyer, Alito wrote that "it is hard to see what legitimate purpose can possibly be served by. most of the dissent's lengthy introductory section."
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