http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/2007/summer/feature_3.php
a great article on this subject
Following the Parker decision, the DC Circuit Court refused to re-hear the case en banc.
Here's the question..... do you think it is possible that the Circuit Court, by its refusal to re-hear en banc, was sending this message to gun-grabbers? : "Cut your losses and leave this decision alone. If this thing goes all the way to SCOTUS, you may not like the outcome."
Would be interested in other FReepers' opinions on this theory...
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ping.
Sources of Supreme Court Justices law degree.
Roberts Harvard
Stevens Northwestern
Scalia Harvard
Kennedy Harvard
Souter Harvard
Thomas Yale
Ginsburg Columbia (but attended Harvard Law as well)
Breyer Harvard
Alito Yale
Thus 5 of 9 are Haavard graduates, and a 6th attended Harvard Law for some period). Two of the remaining four are from just down the road a bit at Yale. Columbia is not all that far away either, at least by Western standards. The one non Northeastern law school represented is in Chicago, not exactly the West or South either.
Seems like an awful concentration of influence, don’t you think? It’s not like there aren’t great law schools elsewhere in the country. Here’s the US News latest ranking of law schools. (many ties)
1 Yale University (CT)
2 Harvard University (MA)
2 Stanford University (CA)
4 New York University (NY)
5 Columbia University (NY)
6 University of Chicago (IL)
6 University of Pennsylvania (PA)
8 University of California–Berkeley (CA)
8 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (MI)
10 Duke University (NC)
10 University of Virginia (VA)
12 Northwestern University (IL)
13 Cornell University (NY)
14 Georgetown University (DC)
15 University of California–Los Angeles (CA)
16University of Southern California (Gould) (CA)
16 Vanderbilt University (TN)
18 University of Texas–Austin (TX)
19 Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
20 Boston University
Don’t know about you but having 5 of 9 Supreme Court justices having gotten their law degrees in Boston, (I know Harvard is in Cambridge, been there, wasn’t impressed. But was impressed at MIT) and two more in New Haven, scares the Shiite out of me.
Although with Cambridge only a few miles from Lexington and Concord, and pretty close to Breeds Hill as well, you’d think maybe the lessons of Patriot’s Day might penetrate by osmosis. Some of the fighting that day was in Cambridge and maybe even on or near Harvard, which IIRC was already in place along what came to be known as The Battle Road. In fact they probably dug up artifacts of the battle when they built the law school, the law school having been established 42 years later in 1817.
To all...
Be very carefull what we are hoping for in this case...
Again, the U.S. Supreme Court is not a lock on this issue...Regardless of the “4 horsemen” on our side of the issue...
If the courts opinion that the 2nd Amendment is a “Fundamental Right”...Its all over...You’ll see bans, restrictions, infringements, confiscations from here to Christmas...And we’ll never get it back unless the ultimate trigger is pulled...
Now...After the scary side of this has sunk in...There is a bright side to this...
“IF” the 2nd Amendment is reaffirmed that it is an “individual” right...I believe it would be imperative that the court solidify it by an opinion that it has always been an “inalienable” right...There is no higher authority or justification...
That point needs to be re-iterated as the argument for the “individual right” gains momentum...
Hopefully it’ll go our way...But nothing is certain these days...
Come on, SCOTUS, don’t fail us now. A major piece of the Bill of Rights is at stake.
I have a real problem with this. The District of Columbia IS NOT a state of the Union.
It is not a party to the Constitution. It is under the
sole legislative authority” of Congress.
The court could issue a verdict with this in mind and all the sudden the media slimes will make it out like it is binding on the rest of the states.
Who knows how this could go. Some of these morons will be looking over seas at laws in Europe. If I were president, I would have demanded any justice that looks at any other constitution but our own resign! A real president would have declared war on the supreme Court a long time ago! Or, war on at least 4-5 judges on it! They are hacks! They have broken their oath! Half the country waits with bated breath to see if at least 5 judges in black robes will allow us to keep our freedoms! Where are the real leaders of America and for America today?? I swear to God I will have to run for congress if this kind of crap keeps up!! I hate the thought of it! All I have ever wanted to do in my life was eat pizza and sit on a beach,, well, besides a few other things. It’ll only be out of desperation! The second amendment will never be outdated!! None of our liberties will ever be outdated!! A thousand years from now property rights will be as sacred as they are today! The right of free speech and the right to worship as you please will always always be in style!! Any justice that votes to overturn a right or a liberty should be removed immediately from the bench! I would still love to see Souters home seized for a hotel!