Posted on 06/26/2008 3:55:39 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Today is the day.
The folks at SCOTUS blog will be providing a live blog to follow developments as quickly as possible.
Oh, GREAT! My company’s filter blocks the coveritlive.com coverage on SCOTUSblog. Can someone PLEASE keep those of us behind the times/firewalls informed of the highlights?
Tom Goldstein - The Court will then release the 3 opinions in order of the seniority of the author of the principal opinion: most junior to most senior.
Looks like Heller is going to be last up today if Scalia, in fact, wrote it.
Tom Goldstein - The Court will then release the 3 opinions in order of the seniority of the author of the principal opinion: most junior to most senior.
This is agonizing.
Tom Goldstein - So, Davis v. FEC will almost certainly be the first opinion released because Justice Alito is likely the author.
This bitter clingy American would go for that!!
Saddle up !!!
Tom Goldstein - So, Davis v. FEC will almost certainly be the first opinion released because Justice Alito is likely the author.
I don’t hold out much hope for this decision.
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Finally, someone posts a photo that sends signals up MY leg. :)
Is that yours or can I just steal it?
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
That is a good sign.
“After this decision, the next 70 years will be filled with both sides tying up the courts asking “reasonable” to be specifically defined”
And, what is reasonable? It is relative; Relative to each and every individual situation.
Now, what is relative? And, does “individual” even exist now?
You are correct. This will be tying up the courts forever.
No. Not forever.
These terms will be specifically defined by the left, as soon as they take over both houses and the top spot, which is in our very near future.
No matter the decision, it will not be in our best interest.
At least they didn’t activate the National Guard, like they did before another verdict (the Rodney King beating verdicts, in LA).
Indeed. Wish I were there.
“If they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
Not to mention refugees and the taxpayers paying for them:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080620-4.html
Tom Goldstein - We will know the result in the Heller case almost immediately — i.e., affirmed, reversed, or vacated and remanded. But the nuances will be critical and we won’t get the opinion itself for a few minutes. So be patient.
No—the problem is the opposite. The 2d Amendment, like all the Bill of Rights, is directed at restraining the federal government. The 14th Amendment, passed after the Civil War, said no state shall deprive citizens of life, liberty or property without due process of law, or infringe upon their privileges and immunities (IIRC). Over the past 100 years, many of the first ten amendments have been “incorporated” by the Supreme Court into the 14th, which means that the restrictions on the federal governments are also restrictions on the state governments. That is, the rights have been construed to be part of the rights protected by the 14th.
The Supreme Court hasn’t ever decided whether the RKBA applies to the states, and they won’t decide that today (because Heller is a DC case). They may hint at it, particularly in individual justices’ concurring or dissenting opinions.
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