Lol, I butchered her name in my post!
Posted on 09/30/2009 12:35:11 PM PDT by fiscon1
Following the Heller decision, folks in municipalities all over the country began to challenge local restrictions on gun rights. One of the most prominent bans in the country is right here in Chicago. That is about to get a full hearing in front of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment, ensuring another high-profile battle over the rights of gun owners.
The court said it will review a lower court ruling that upheld a handgun ban in Chicago. Gun rights supporters challenged gun laws in Chicago and some suburbs immediately following the high court's decision in June 2008 that struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia, a federal enclave.
(Excerpt) Read more at theeprovocateur.blogspot.com ...
We know how Sotomayor will rule.
Let’s hope this turns out okay. I think all gun laws should be rescinded - criminals don’t obey gun laws and if you inappropriately use a gun then there’s the crime. The crime should never be mere possession.
I hope they make the constitutionally correct decision.
Well, I KNOW at least 3 of them won’t, but I really hope the other six realize exactly how thin the ice is.
Well, Obama was sure to get another anti-Constitutional liberal on the court. I would estimate any vote on firearms ownership freedom will be a pure partisan vote on the SCOTUS.
[Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment]
DUH!
Interesting to see how Sotemeyer votes on this one.
This can send this nation into war. I expect the court to rule the Bill of Rights is void, that they can pick and choose what parts we get. They use the “incorporation doctrine”, which is a bogus ruling that the court gets to decide which parts of the Bill of Rights we enjoy versus what parts the States get to stomp on.
Should they rule against us and for the States, I fully expect many States will outright ban firearms.
Perhaps they should concentrate on the first.
He didn’t really get another on, he just replaced the one who left, so there are still the same number of liberals.
I’m pretty confident about this case. Usually, the Court wouldn’t decide to hear a case like this if one side wasn’t confident they had the votes. The Heller decision was 5-4 with all 5 signed on to Scalia’s opinion. Kennedy, who is usually the swing vote was arguably the most pro-2A voice during the argument. I don’t see him switching.
The interesting thing will be to see if they base the decision on the Privileges or Immunities clause instead of the Due Process clause. THey specificlaly mentioned the P or I clause in the grant. If they were to do that, which a numbre of conservatives have advocated, and which Justice Thomas has specifically mentioned in a prior opinion, it would be the most significant decision since Roe v Wade and go a long way towards fixing things.
Justice SoSo will say that the second amendment is a collective “right”.
SoSo say “collective right” no guns for you!
“...the right of the people to keep *and bear* Arms, shall not be *infringed*.”
Infringe: to break, violate, *impair*, or *encroach upon*.
In other words, Barack, come anywhere *near* this one of my inalienable rights at great risk to your scaly hide!
Lol, I butchered her name in my post!
Same as Souter.
So far we're 'ok' (although we unfortunately traded in an older leftist for a younger leftist)... Just need to keep Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito and the swing guy - Kennedy - in our prayers for the next few years. The other 4 are lost causes: Ginsburg, Stevens, Sotomayer, and Breyer...
The issue of Obama coming after your guns was settled in Heller, for the time being at least.
This case is about the governor of your state coming after your guns, or the mayor of your city. Hopefully the 2A will be incorporated.
Lets hope all the Conservative judges survive until then.
The same way that sick sodomite Souter would rule.
This country is hanging by a thread.
Bogus indeed - the root of all evil, in fact.
But unless they reverse Heller, they're going to have a hard time not ruling against Chicago. The two are directly linked by their corporate aspect, and I don't see how the court can get around that. That's why Heller was so important - the D.C. venue didn't limit the decision, it established it's corporate reach. So as far as I can see, it's domino time.
“So as far as I can see, it’s domino time.”
Me, too.
There is no such thing as a “collective right” Rights are attributes of individuals, as they imply a freedom of action motivated by conscious will, or from force or fraud at the hands of another. Groups have no will or consciousness, only the aggregate of individual wills and minds.
I’m in Atlanta. Concealed weapons are legal. I’m told that on any given night 1 in 4 are carrying and most women.
There is no 1st without the 2nd.
You are right.
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The democrats figure if we legitimately criticize Sotemeyer for here biased agendas that hispanics will move more to the left on voting day.
He nomination and confirmation was pure radical left politics.
But honest hispanic Americam citizens are not known for being anti-gun or for wanting the anti-freedom Mexican or Cuban tyrannical restrictions and bans.
Democrats continue to fight the 2nd Ammendment at their peril.
I know that, leftists don’t know that. =o)
Wasn’t it John Cougar Mellencamp who postulated that the first amendment was a collective right? I am not sure how that would work.
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Good .gif potlatch
She has that Mad Allbright thing going on.....
Not sure about the Hispanics down here in South Texas. So many of their kids have been killed by guns. Many of their homes have been shot at by ‘drive by’ shooters and some children have been killed in my town that way.
So - the older Hispanics ‘may’ not like guns.
The dems are riding roughshod over everything, I'm amazed every single day.
I don’t think it will be interesting, so much as predictable.
I DO hope I am wrong, though.
This from a man who could never stay on the same tune as his backup singers.
I suppose we COULD all get together and sing “We are the World”, right?
I just call hr SoSo..
[She has that Mad Allbright thing going on.....]
Maddy always had a ‘jolly’ look to her though. Especially when visiting Kim Jong, lol.
[I don’t think it will be interesting, so much as predictable.]
Maybe she will surprise us, that would be a real surprise!
[I just call hr SoSo..]
Lol, that gives me a laugh. Makes the spelling easier though! We’ve got O O and ho ho in the White House.
Or we could call her Red Sonia... but I like SoSo
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I find their personal and political sides blend when the deliberately lie and scheme to gain power and/or and appointed or elected office.
At that point anything they have ever done or said or plan to do is open to The Alinski Rules.
Expose a fraud and/or a criminal as the slime they are.
[Red Sonia]
Yeah, I’ve seen that used.
Many get exposed all the time and never suffer any consequences. The democrats I mean, the pubs always confess and throw themselves under the wheels...
This is just Twilight Zone to me. If it’s settled, unchangeable precedent that the 14th Amendment MUST apply to every state with NO local deviations permitted on the abortion issue, how can the same principle not apply to the Second? What am I missing?
The dems choose the Darkside
The dumb pubs fall into the Black Hole it seems.
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It’s all very dark
Or lightmediumbrown
[It’s all very dark
Or lightmediumbrown]
Lol, I know, you are really in the doldrums today!
You need a cup of ChockFulla and a piece of Michelle’s pie to perk you up!!
Ummm, you forgot purple. Black and purple are the depths of despair.
I’m a fan of concealed carry, especially for women. A .38 snub nose revolver fits very nicely into any woman’s purse.
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Black and Chartreuse.....
If Sortamywhore would only flip a coin, at least she would give us half a chance. She is left of Lenin. We know how she will vote. Ban ‘em, Dan O.
[Black and Chartreuse.....]
Ahh, there’s a glimmer of light shining through there for you, lol. Now add some hot pink and Peter Max will approve!
In fact, even Rush will approve as I have a picture of him in golf clothes that is amazing!
You’re right, flipping a coin gives us 50/50.
But the dems are corrupt and her coin is the same on both sides, in her favor! “Heads I win, Tails you lose”, she says.
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/
I would also recommend going back in the archives of earlier interviews, such as John Bolton and Antonin Scalia. A lot of interesting stuff there.
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