I have to disagree. They have to deal with Miller in this case because of the strict vs. moderate application. This will directly effect 922 (o). this case will be much broader than just the DC gun ban.
I don’t think the decision will be much broader, but it will open the door to more challenges.
I agree. It wasn’t the lawyers that kept bringing up issues outside the scope of the question at hand, it was the judges themselves. The lawyers were the ones that kept going back to the case itself. We’re gonna get a decision on much more then the question of DC’s ban on handguns.
It may or may not deal with Miller. But there is no way—absolutely, positively no way—that the Court will not strike down any statute as unconstitutional except for the DC statute.
The Court is not in the business of writing sweeping rulings, particularly when those rulings would amount to a significant detour and frolic from the Question Presented to the Court.