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To: Beelzebubba
It’s about time that we get this issue resolved.

Is there any reason to expect the Supreme Court to do anything other than write a very narrow decision dealing with some very specific details of the case at hand? My expectation would be that the Supreme Court will provide that DC must acknowledge the application of the plaintiff who had applied for a permit and was denied, but will find that the other plaintiffs lack standing.

201 posted on 07/16/2007 9:26:52 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: supercat

Is there any reason to expect the Supreme Court to do anything other than write a very narrow decision dealing with some very specific details of the case at hand? My expectation would be that the Supreme Court will provide that DC must acknowledge the application of the plaintiff who had applied for a permit and was denied, but will find that the other plaintiffs lack standing.


You may be right, but I believe that merely upholding this narrow opinion can have profoundly good impacts, or provide important foundation for future progress, if the “you can’t ban a whole class of arms” principle remains upheld.


218 posted on 07/17/2007 5:56:17 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them, I won't chip away at them" -Mitt Romney)
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