U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled earlier this month that an illegal alien can not be charged for carrying a loaded firearm. What can go wrong?
Judge Coleman is an Obama appointee and a liberal judge in Illinois. An illegal alien, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, was charged with carrying a loaded gun. In her ruling, Judge Coleman said, ‘The noncitizen possession statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), violates the Second Amendment as applied to Carbajal-Flores.’Thus, the court grants Carbajal-Flores’ motion to dismiss.’
Carbajal-Flores’ defense team posed the argument that the government could not show that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) was ‘part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the right to keep and bear arms.’
In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that government prosecutors must be able to show that regulations are ‘consistent with this nation’s historical…
