Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg lab reef exploring legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg Law host Joon Grosso and Greg Stuart discuss how gun control advocates are quietly developing a plan to ship away at the gun lobbies growing clout by teaming up with corporate law firms. They speak with Joyce Malcolm, professor at George Mason University Law School, and Mark Rayber, Professor at the
University of Maryland School of Law. Joyce, I hate to use this word, but will the mere firepower of all these law firms make a difference in in this issue? Will they have success in there are some things they want to challenge and things they want to help defend.
Will it matter? UM? I think they will have a very difficult time because um, not only UM do we have a Republican president coming in on a Republican House in SENTA, but their approach is going to be two regulators and courts across the states, and the states are now much more under UM the control of the people who want to support the Second Amendment have been moving
in that direction for some years. So I think that you know, just applying UH and appealing to regulators, um and courts is not going to be as successful as they hope. Mark, do you agree with that? Is this an uphill battle? I think I would praise things slightly differently. But Professor Malcolm is absolutely right. Given that Republicans will be making the appointees to the federal court, given that
more states houses are under Republican control. Unless we're talking about Republican control in places like Massachusetts, where the Republicans are almost as liberal on gun control as the Democrats, were not likely to see a whole lot of luck. For example, challenging a law in Florida that says basically doctors cannot give certain advice about guns to patients and maybe a bad law. From my perspective on Professor Malcolm
A well, disagree, but I think we both agree. Given the likely people on the state and federal judici, serry is going to be a very strong challenge. Remember when law firms participated in the fight against segregation, they also had presidents like Eisenhower, Kendy, and Johnson appointing anti segregation judges.
That is not the case now. That's Mark Graver, professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and Joyce Malcolm, professor at George Mason University Law School, speaking with Bloomberg Law host Doing Grosso and Greg Stuart. You can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays at one pm Wall Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio. And among the top stories from Bloomberg Law, the wife of billionaire bond trader Bill Gross is seeking a divorce after three years of marriage. Sue
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