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A good year in Virginia
The Virginia Citizens Defense League is reporting a very good year indeed at the Legislature.
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“Ducking the Bullet: District of Columbia v. Heller and the Stevens Dissent”
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People hate lawyers because 99% of them give the rest of us a bad reputation. People hate law profs because some think and speak like this : “Larry seems to argue that our own normative or empirical notions cannot play a role in fixing the semantic content of constitutional text: In his words, the belief that “semantic content is determined after the fact of communication on the basis of what we would like an utterance to have meant given our practical concerns” is a “fundamentally confused” way to think about interpretation (page 103)
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Story here . “It took $833.69, a total of 15 hours 50 minutes, four trips to the Metropolitan Police Department, two background checks, a set of fingerprints, a five-hour class and a 20-question multiple-choice exam. Oh, and the votes of five Supreme Court justices.” I never thought I’d see the day when articles like this would be allowed in the Post…
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