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*LIVE THREAD* DC vs Heller decision due at 10:00 EST (2nd Amendment)
SCOTUS Blog ^ | 6-26-08 | shameless vanity

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: banglist; bitter; elections; heller; judiciary; scalia; scotus; secondamendment; shallnotbeinfringed
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To: mware

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?


161 posted on 06/26/2008 6:57:39 AM PDT by LTCJ (God Save the Constitution - Tar/Feathers '08)
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To: mware

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.


162 posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:07 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, freerepublic.com baby)
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To: RockinRight

Looks like Heller is going to be last up today if Scalia, in fact, wrote it.


163 posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:07 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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To: NewJerseyJoe

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.


164 posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:27 AM PDT by An Old Man ("The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." Douglas)
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To: Publius Valerius

This is agonizing.


165 posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:36 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: RKBA Democrat

Tom Goldstein - So, Davis v. FEC will almost certainly be the first opinion released because Justice Alito is likely the author.


166 posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:47 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: The Raven

This bitter clingy American would go for that!!
Saddle up !!!


167 posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:55 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (Liberals (and RINOS) act as if stupidity were a virtue.)
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To: LTCJ
Got you covered.

Tom Goldstein - So, Davis v. FEC will almost certainly be the first opinion released because Justice Alito is likely the author.

168 posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:56 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, freerepublic.com baby)
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To: RKBA Democrat

I don’t hold out much hope for this decision.


169 posted on 06/26/2008 6:59:25 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: mware

Would you mind posting? Saves duplicates. FRegards


170 posted on 06/26/2008 6:59:37 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: traviskicks

Finally, someone posts a photo that sends signals up MY leg. :)
Is that yours or can I just steal it?


171 posted on 06/26/2008 6:59:43 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Teach your child to be an American. Take him out of public school.)
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To: RockinRight
From goodbyeguns.org

"We, the people, therefore call upon you, our elected representatives, to enact legislation to remove all guns and firearms from private ownership. We, the people, call upon you, our elected representatives, to enact laws to:

Create a one year period for the United States of America to purchase at fair market value all guns and firearms, including hand guns, rifles, and even antique guns and rifles from domestic private ownership.

Prohibit and criminalize the domestic sale of guns and firearms, whether new or used.

Seize and destroy any gun or firearm found after the termination of the purchase period without compensation.

Prohibit and criminalize the domestic possession of a gun or firearm after the termination of the one year purchase period.

Provide exemptions for governmental law enforcement agencies, the armed services, and bona fide museums.



Shouldn't be much resistance to this, other than the beginning of the 2nd Un-Civil War.

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

172 posted on 06/26/2008 7:00:07 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Publius Valerius
Looks like Heller is going to be last up today if Scalia, in fact, wrote it.

That is a good sign.

173 posted on 06/26/2008 7:00:11 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, freerepublic.com baby)
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To: TexasRedeye

“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.


174 posted on 06/26/2008 7:00:13 AM PDT by mark3681
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To: mware

At least they didn’t activate the National Guard, like they did before another verdict (the Rodney King beating verdicts, in LA).


175 posted on 06/26/2008 7:00:18 AM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Indeed. Wish I were there.


176 posted on 06/26/2008 7:00:38 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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To: mware

“If they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”


177 posted on 06/26/2008 7:00:50 AM PDT by IGOTMINE (1911s FOREVER!)
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To: RockinRight

Not to mention refugees and the taxpayers paying for them:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080620-4.html


178 posted on 06/26/2008 7:00:54 AM PDT by Blue Turtle (I)
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To: mware

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.


179 posted on 06/26/2008 7:00:57 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, freerepublic.com baby)
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To: RockinRight

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.


180 posted on 06/26/2008 7:01:02 AM PDT by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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