Kennedy will be the swing vote to knock out all these gun bans, 5-4, turn the oven off the pie is done, and won’t it taste good.
Methinks we should put subtle-but-strong security around five Justices... and hope Kennedy comes down upright on this.
Scalia: ‘We Are Devoting Too Many of Our Best Minds to’ Lawyering
Well, you know, two chiefs ago, Chief Justice Burger, used to complain about the low quality of counsel. I used to have just the opposite reaction. I used to be disappointed that so many of the best minds in the country were being devoted to this enterprise.
I mean there’d be a, you know, a defense or public defender from Podunk, you know, and this woman is really brilliant, you know. Why isn’t she out inventing the automobile or, you know, doing something productive for this society?
I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put food on the table and there have to be other people who are doing that. And I worry that we are devoting too many of our very best minds to this enterprise.
And they appear here in the Court, I mean, even the ones who will only argue here once and will never come again. I’m usually impressed with how good they are. Sometimes you get one who’s not so good. But, no, by and large I don’t have any complaint about the quality of counsel, except maybe we’re wasting some of our best minds.
“in the home”...disastrous.
If this reasoning is upheld it will start a war.
I sure hope and pray they get rid of these gun bans. I live in the People’s Republic of MA and it’s always puckering time to renew my LTC. I am one of the fortunate ones that has an LTC-A no restrictions living in Boston, but it’s BS the hoops they make folks go through to get one.
Gun that Ban DOWN! Put our 2nd Amendment FIRST!!
and thanks FGS:
Montana Gun Suit Challenges Federal Authority
cbsnews.com | 1 October, 2009 | Declan McCullagh
Posted on 10/02/2009 5:08:05 AM PDT by marktwain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2353259/posts
ping
On a RELATED point: I am sure Rio deserved to win the Olympic slot, yet I am also convinced that much of the “No” vote on Chicago was pure anti-Americanism.
HOWEVER, with Chicago’s handgun ban, no shooting athlete would have been ALLOWED to compete, or even posess his handgun, in Chi-town! Maybe they would have done that in Michigan? Perhaps THAT is one reason why they voted for Rio.
“But it left unclear whether the ruling applied outside the nation’s capital.”
When the civil rights act was passed did every civil rights group in other states need to use the courts to overturn racist laws?