Supreme Court: Second Amendment Case, McDonald v. City Of Chicago, To Be Heard This Week
The Supreme Court will hear the oral arguments in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago on Tuesday. Their ruling will have implications for the futu...
The Supreme Court will hear the oral arguments in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago on Tuesday. Their ruling will have implications for the futu...
Robyn Blumner | Posted 05.25.2011
The Second Amendment has always put me in a quandary, but Scalia's opinion was not an honest attempt at sorting it out. It was a sophistical, political decision of just the type that he rails against.
Adam Freedman | Posted 05.25.2011
So much for Scalia's much-vaunted "originalism," which advocates reading the Constitution as it would have been understood at the time of the Founding.
Adam Winkler | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the most intriguing aspects of Justice Scalia's opinion in DC v. Heller is its use of living constitutionalism to justify the decision to invalidate D.C.'s handgun ban.
Joyce Lee Malcolm | Posted 05.25.2011
A government that cannot protect people should not deprive them of the right to protect themselves -- and the the D.C. gun ban did just that.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011
While the gun lobby may crack open that bottle of champagne, this is a victory that thrives in theory, but one that, in practice, can only be condemned.
James Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011
Today's Heller decision marks the biggest triumph so far for gun rights advocates. It establishes what was for so long denied, and the the gun control debate will never be the same.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Following the Supreme Court's ruling fortifying 2nd Amendment gun rights, reactions are pouring in from politicians, pundits and bloggers. Barack Oba...
Sanford Levinson | Posted 05.25.2011
If Scalia and Stevens were competent historians, then it might be worth reading what they write. But they are not. Both offer selective readings of history to support what seem to be pre-determined positions.
Posted 05.25.2011