I think Massachussets paid him off.
Crash! Bang! Bingo! Winner!
You understand what is going to happen here.
This case will not reach the U.S. Supreme Court, if the full District Court rules in favor of Ms. Parker (i.e., FOR the "personal rights interpretation" of the Second Amendment).
That is to say that the Left DOES NOT WANT, and WILL DO ANYTHING POSSIBLE, to prevent the Supreme Court from touching this case. Because, once the high court rules, if the decision is in favor of the individual right to own firearms, the arguments of the gun-grabbers will be ended. The Constitution will have spoken against them.
Tip: who here remembers the case of Sharon Taxman vs. the Piscataway (NJ) school board, several years back? That was the "sure-fire, absolutely guaranteed" case that would have overturned affirmative action once and for all in America. It was to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a matter of days. But the case never was heard by the Court, and affirmative action stands today. Why did that happen?
Because civil-rights groups _bought off_ Sharon Taxman with about $480,000 in cash. After being paid off, she agreed to drop the case, and withdrew her petition before the Court only hours before it was to be argued.
The Supreme Court does not "rule out of thin air". They have to have a case before them to make a decision. No case, no decision.
The Left knows the importance of the Parker case, and how heavily it is stacked against them (I would not dare to predict how even a modestly conservative Court as the one that sits today will rule on Parker).
They also know that if Parker DOESN'T get argued before the Supreme Court, the Court can't rule against them. The Court can't fire the gun (pun intended), unless they have the ammunition. No "ammunition" (Parker), no shot heard round the country.
For this reason, the Left will abandon their argument against individual firearms ownership within the area served by the D.C. Circuit Court, so that it may continue to be argued everywhere else.
They DO NOT WANT THIS CASE TO BE HEARD!
(As an aside, this is also the reason why a conservative Supreme Court will never get to rule decisely over Roe v. Wade - again, because the Left will prevent them from getting their hands on one.)
- John
Well said.