“It is sort of a truism that our commitment to due process and the rule of law means very little if we don’t assure that everybody gets due process,” said Clark Neily, a vice president at the libertarian Cato Institute who authored a brief on Rahimi's side.
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"A misdemeanor arrest can be devastating with the loss of a job or the loss of child custody," Mr. Neily said. "It is astonishing how destructive a misdemeanor is, and we don't even ask ourselves if it is worth it."
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