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Online discussion of 14th Amendment and Chicago
Online video here at 7 PM Pacific, 10 PM Eastern, tonight. Speaking will be Steve Halbrook (who was bringing out books on the 14th Amendment and the right to arms 20+ years before Chicago, and got I think six citations in that opinion) and Don Kilmer, attorney in the Nordyke case, where the 9th Circuit panel ruled in favor of incorporation before Chicago came down.
Full StoryRichmond Times-Dispatch covers the Thomas concurrence
It’s not often one sees a newspaper article that reproduces large portions of a Supreme Court opinion . It’s a far cut above the usual “the decision will have these policy effects,” or “these people cheered it and those people don’t like it.” To actually report a decision, and edit it down to suitable size, requires too much work.
Full StoryA commentary on McDonald v. Chicago
Right here . “I purchased a gun several years ago, when I became concerned for the safety of my young family after receiving a verbal racial assault in our 21st century Northern California neighborhood. Perhaps I am the only Stanford Law professor who owns guns, including the one that once graced my father’s lap on that porch forty years ago
Full StoryThis settles one thing
I have long felt that Second Amendment legal thinking is guided, not by any “liberal vs.
Full StoryThe Empire Strikes Back
Mayor Daley proposes to replace the handgun ban with onerous regulation . Well, that’s one reason for the attorneys’ fees provisions of 42 U.S.C. §1988.
Full StoryFunny read, from the Chi Tribune
It asks what gun laws Chicago should adopt if its ban is stricken .
Full StoryMore reading of tea leaves
As I noted during the last such exercise, the Supreme Court considers each two-week session of oral arguments a “sitting,” and the custom is that each Justice (if at all possible) gets to write at least one opinion from each sitting. McDonald was heard during the sitting of February 22. That sitting had 13 cases, one of which was dismissed after it settled.
Full StorySelf defender downs cop-killer
This posting points to a memorable 1999 event which doesn’t seem to have attracted much media interest (it happened in Phoenix, and don’t remember hearing of it before this).
Full StoryReading tea leaves….
The Supreme Court divides up arguments into “sittings,” each of them two weeks long. McDonald v. Chicago was argued during the sitting of Feb 22
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