Also, Judge Chang addresses level of scrutiny, citing Ezell:
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one thing is sure: the standard of judicial review is always stricter than rational basis review
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and citing Moore:
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The Seventh Circuit then went on to assess the State’s public-safety rationales for banning public gun carriage, concluding that the State’s empirical evidence did not provide a justification for a complete public-carriage ban. Because the State thus failed to “provide [the court] with more than merely a rational basis for believing that its uniquely sweeping ban is justified by an increase in public safety,” the Seventh Circuit remanded to the respective district courts for the entry of declarations of unconstitutionality
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If only King and Davis would have done their jobs, gone by the clear meaning of the law instead of jerrymandering word meanings to cook up an opinion to keep society the way they personally think it should be in regards to people carrying firearms.
Well, no use dwelling on the negative - this is a positive for Illinois and people in Chicago.
Chicago loses again.