Reply #50: What part of "absent a showing"...

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and "it is certainly not within judicial notice" don't you understand?

Have you ever even HEARD of the Incorporation Doctrine? That's what put an end to STATES being able to ban religions and prohibit Free Speech. After the Incorporation Doctrine came into existence, Incorporated Rights that had been Federal got spread to the States. That's why States can, for example, no longer beat confessions out of people.

And I am a published author on this issue. True, it wasn't peer reviewed, but hey...it was published. It was an article on the striking similarities between "Jim Crow" laws and the NFA in a small University publication geared exclusively towards legal professionals.