Keyes v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[G]enerally, the Government does have an important interest at play and that the dispossession of certain groups of people are reasonable to pursue that interest. To allow the Government to defeat an as-applied challenge by demonstrating that the statute was a reasonable fit to its important interest in general would mean that the challengers' efforts to distinguish themselves from the overall class are rendered futile. In essence, without considering the challengers' specific characteristics, the second step of the Marzzarella framework is the same in both facial and as-applied challenge, rendering the first prong in as-applied challenges superfluous and done in vain.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Brooks

2. “between that interest and the challenged law. Binderup , 836 F.3d at 354 , 399 . Judge Ambro interprets this to require the Government to adduce evidence explaining why banning people in the Plaintiff's position from firearm possession is a reasonable means to further its governmental interest. Id. , at 354-355 . To this end, Judge Ambro found that the Government's reliance on general statistical studies that felons are more likely to commit violent crimes was misplaced. Id. Instead, the Government needed to present reliable evidence”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Brooks

3. “it would effectively foreclose all as-applied challenges.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Brooks