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*LIVE THREAD* DC vs Heller decision due at 10:00 EST (2nd Amendment)
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| 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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too bad Thomas didn’t write a consenting opinion.
561
posted on
06/26/2008 7:56:18 AM PDT
by
lainie
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
To: Darren McCarty
McCain will appoint another Souter just like Papa Bush did.
562
posted on
06/26/2008 7:56:18 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: mware
“Obama released a comment saying he agrees with the courts decision.”
I call BS. Obama would disarm you in a minute if he thought it was to his political advantage.
563
posted on
06/26/2008 7:56:33 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
To: pabianice
I think state laws would apply there.
To: Redbob
ICBW, but I’ll bet there was much discussion over whether or not to dis-arm Confederate soldiers, as well as the South after the War Between The States.
565
posted on
06/26/2008 7:56:58 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Someday it'll all make sense.....maybe.)
To: Prole
Where’s my Taurus .38 “Ultra-Lite” ?
566
posted on
06/26/2008 7:57:07 AM PDT
by
junkman_106
(Once is chance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action ---007/Ian Fleming)
To: Vaquero
bump.
Everyone seems SO SURE he’s a true conservative at heart, despite decades of evidence to the contrary.
567
posted on
06/26/2008 7:57:18 AM PDT
by
lainie
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
To: blackie
24 As for the hundreds of judges, post, at 2, who have relied on the view of the Second Amendment JUSTICE STEVENS claims we endorsed in Miller: If so, they overread Miller. And their erroneous reliance upon an uncontested and virtually unreasoned case cannot nullify the reliance of millions of Americans (as our historical analysis has shown) upon the true meaning of the right to keep and bear arms. In any event, it should not be thought that the cases decided by these judges would necessarily have come out differently under a proper interpretation of the right.
568
posted on
06/26/2008 7:57:25 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(2-D fantasy artists wanted: http://faxcelestis.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=213)
To: green iguana
Reminds me of Colorado’s MAKE MY DAY law.
Check it out! It’s awesome!
569
posted on
06/26/2008 7:57:27 AM PDT
by
Carley
To: green iguana
I’ll say this though—that opinion is a judicial b!tchslap of the first order. Scalia absolutely gave Stevens the pimp hand all the way through it.
}:-)4
570
posted on
06/26/2008 7:57:28 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
To: bvw
Or for Kelo vs New London...
571
posted on
06/26/2008 7:57:30 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: andy58-in-nh
Millers holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those in common use at the time finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons." IE an assault weapon ban is possible, even after Heller. Also all weapons are dangerous. The 2nd's very purpose was TO BREAK FROM the tradition of prohibiting the carry of dangerous weapons!
Heller is no grand victory, it seems.
572
posted on
06/26/2008 7:57:32 AM PDT
by
bvw
To: RKBA Democrat
From Scalia's majority opinion, ridiculing the dissent's tortured interpretation of the phrase "keep and bear arms":
It would be rather like saying He filled and kicked the bucket to mean He filled the bucket and died. Grotesque.
573
posted on
06/26/2008 7:57:59 AM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
To: All
574
posted on
06/26/2008 7:58:07 AM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
To: All
It took 32 years for the Washington DC ban to be overturned. What took so long.
To: DocRock
got any pictures of patriots without varmint rifles?
576
posted on
06/26/2008 7:58:54 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: mondonico
Putting all of these textual elements together, we find that they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation. Interesting as it relates to some state restrictions on concealed carry.
To: WayneS
Yes ... in fact the legal reasoning of sovereign claims to property for public use had been well worked out back in the 1800’s. The New London ruling “blowed it all up”! Talk about your dangerous weapons!
578
posted on
06/26/2008 8:00:01 AM PDT
by
bvw
To: Brilliant
That is EXCATLY the choice the framers “made” (sic).
The “evidence” is right there in the 2nd Amendment.
Stevens is a disingenuous jackass.
579
posted on
06/26/2008 8:00:11 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: An Old Man
Is it wrong of me to take delight in the fact that Justice Scalia quotes Justice Ginsburg in his discussion on the meaning of the phrase “bear arms”?
580
posted on
06/26/2008 8:00:12 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
("Yes, I have been drinking. Why do you ask?" #1 on the list of "things heard from McCain voters")
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