Bondi v. VanDerStok

We have often granted certiorari where a lower court has set aside an important federal program.

See, for example, Bondi v. Vanderstock from 2025, Department of Education v.

Career, Colleges, and Schools of Texas 2025.

And on the equities, the federal government is likely to suffer irreparable harm absent a stay.

Well, speaking of real-life guns, Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation in 2002 brought the suit against Blanche.

Well, really, the case is Defense Distributed versus Blanche, formerly known as Vanderstock versus Bondi.

The Northern District of Texas found that the ATF violated its mandate by expanding the definition of a firearm to include kits such as partial 80% frames and receivers.

U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor found that there was no historical text or traditions that banned self-manufactured firearms, and that the Justice Department overstepped its final rule, which took effect in August of 2022.

That one's on me.

All right.

Anyway, I had some tangential explaining on this whole formerly Vanderstock versus Bondi, now defense distributed versus Blanche.

The judge, Judge Reed O'Connor from the Northern District of Texas, he's got some pretty interesting judgments under his belt.