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Highlights from the SCOTUS docket, for your perusal, continued at link.
1 posted on 10/06/2009 2:55:50 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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Thanks for posting! I’m sorry but when the SCOTUS says abortion is OK and Porn is art, covered by free speech, I just can’t get worked up over dog fight videos....I love animals but I’ll get worked up over the doggie fights when the unborn are recognized as Americans with all rights of those living outside the womb.


2 posted on 10/06/2009 3:03:30 PM PDT by missanne (That's all I can stands and I can't stands no more?? This is one of those days!)
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The court takes up a long-running legal fight over whether the cross, which Congress declared a national memorial, violates First Amendment religious protections despite Congress' decision to transfer the land to private ownership.

The First says "shall make no law..." What law are they talking about? Can't these people read?

3 posted on 10/06/2009 3:04:08 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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What about a promised review of McCain-Feingold?


4 posted on 10/06/2009 3:05:57 PM PDT by dr_who
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The Heller case determined the 2A to be an individual right, not a collective one, but was directed to the feds thru the city of DC. This current challenge will determine whether the 2A RIGHT prohibits states/locals from infringement.

Once it is recognized that the 2A is protected from fed/state and local laws, we can then move forward and define exactly what it means to “not infringe” this right.


5 posted on 10/06/2009 3:06:17 PM PDT by umgud (Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
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Every case that gets to the SCOTUS is major.As few as 5 out of 9 unelected people get to make THE LAW OF THE LAND!


6 posted on 10/06/2009 3:07:26 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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The Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms has never been held to apply to state and local laws restricting guns.

That's not true at all. Of course it does so apply. That was the Founder's intent. Obscured for a while as the States for all practical purposes reneged judicially on that assent they gave in ratifying the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

That cowardly reneging was resolved in Civil War, and patched up (not so well, but patched anyway) with the post Civil War amendments, specifically the 14th. The 14th causes problems because it was trying to fix something that was broken in the original charter, but something that broke because of some States and the Judiciary dishonored it.

Nevertheless the stated purpose of the 14th was do allow the freed to defend themselves not just in process of law, but by means of all the rights of freemen including the right to bearing arms in self-defense.

8 posted on 10/06/2009 3:25:28 PM PDT by bvw
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Animal cruelty videos may be ruled unconstitutional? Then the PETAmaniacs can sue any ad that depicts meat, and might win. Brave new world.


9 posted on 10/06/2009 3:30:26 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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