Posted on 07/15/2009 4:39:53 PM PDT by Pyro7480
...On Wednesday, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin implied that the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to uphold the Second Amendment was revolutionary: “When I was in law school...the idea that you had a Second Amendment right to a gun was considered preposterous....But the Supreme Court [in Heller]...said that...individuals have a personal right to bear arms.”
...Anchor Wolf Blitzer raised the Second Amendment issue with Toobin, a graduate of Harvard Law School, and the others on their panel analyzing the hearings.... [and] asked...what were the nominee’s “positions, specifically on the federal obligation to support the Second Amendment, as opposed to local communities..?”
The CNN...analyst harkened back to his law school days...and possibly revealed a bit of his formation as a liberal:
TOOBIN: You know, it’s funny, the way that this hearing goes, you would think that Supreme Court precedent is some unchanging thing- that is just the law that is changed. But if you look at the Second Amendment, that’s something that’s changed dramatically over the last- for 50 years, including when I was in law school, which was more recently than 50 years ago- the idea that you had a Second Amendment right to a gun was considered preposterous. The text of the Second Amendment, I believe we have it- we have it in our system- you know, speaks of a well-regulated militia and the right to bear arms.
Well, courts used to say, well, this only affects the rights of state militias. But the Supreme Court, two years ago, in the famous Heller decision, said that when it comes to the federal government, we- individuals have a personal right to bear arms, and the D.C. gun control law was thus unconstitutional....
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The educated, enlightened view is that The Bill of Rights detail individual rights, except the 2nd amendment, which is a collective right. As evidence of this, the advocates offer...nothing particularly compelling.
Eh, I’ve always thought it was preposterous how journalists think their actions are completely blanketed by the Freedom of the Press clause. Honestly, I find it even more preposterous that any law school actually gave Toobin a law degree.
To quote G.K. Chesterton:
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
Cheers!
I was under the impression that the 2nd Amendment as it’s part of the original Bill of Rights could not be changed or revoked through the amendment process.
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth
Columbia
Penn
Cheers!
Assuming that the authors of the Constitution were fairly intelligent, educated people, why did they put the Second Amendment in the Constitution? Mr. Toobin, your answer?
The Second Amendment is an absolute right. The founders did not limit it or defer some power to the states by stating that “Congress shall pass no laws”. They stated categorically that the right “shall not be infringed”.
Where did this fool go to law school? Zimbawbe? Everyone who takes constitutional law (not as taught by the anti-American Obummer) learns about the "Second Amendment right to a gun." It's right there; just after the First Amendment and right before the Third.
That is no longer the case. Since the Maoists and Stalinists took over the left, the whole concept of "freedom of the press" is only protected as far as the official government line. The really scary thing is that the vast majority of "liberals" seem to be unaware that they've become "useful idiots" for the hard liners, who would be right at home in China or North Korea. As far as the official line on the first amendment by the left goes, is you have freedom of expression, as long as they approve of it.
Mark
I choose (D): All of the above.
If liberals read and interpreted the 2nd Amendment the way they do the rest of the Constitution, gun ownership would be mandatory.
Rush Limbaugh
Well, there's your problem right there.
Yes, to justify denying the right to Negros.
Bet you anything Toobin lives in a gated community.
“This man is either ignorant, stupid or he is a bald-faced liar.”
Harvard Law graduate says it all.
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Jeffrey Toobin is a IDIOT! And a poor reader too boot.
I wonder what his address is ? A victim waiting for a hood!
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