Scalia's 2nd Amendment Punt
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.
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.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Judges, with entirely one-sided ruling records, are asked, during Supreme Court confirmation hearings, whether they can be impartial. They're not impartial. It's not even close.
Adam Freedman | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
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.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
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.
Joyce Lee Malcolm | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
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.
James Jacobs | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
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.
Sanford Levinson | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
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.
Judith E. Schaeffer | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Four justices did not join in the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003. Today, protection of the human dignity of gay men and lesbians is hanging by a slender thread on the Supreme Court.
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