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The McDonald Decision
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Cant connect for some reason, overloaded, perhaps?
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5-4 in favor of McDonald!
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Here's what I got from SCOTUSblog before it essentially shut down from the traffic:
10:04 Erin: Alito announces McDonald v. Chicago: reversed and remanded Monday June 28, 2010 10:04 Erin 10:04 Tom: Gun rights prevail Monday June 28, 2010 10:04 Tom 10:05 Erin: The opinion concludes that the 14th Amendment does incorporate the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller to keep and bear arms in self defense Monday June 28, 2010 10:05 Erin 10:05 Tom: 5-4 Monday June 28, 2010 10:05 Tom 10:05 Erin: Stevens dissents for himself. Breyer dissents, joined by Ginsburg and Sotomayor. Monday June 28, 2010 10:05 Erin 10:05 Tom: The majority seems divided, presumably on the precise standard Monday June 28, 2010 10:05 Tom 10:06 Erin: The majority Justices do not support all parts of the Alito opinion, but all five agree that the 2d Amendment applies to state and local government. |
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http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf
Reading through now, perhaps someone with a better understanding of SCOTUSese can help out? |
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It will be most interesting to see what Chicago does now that their handgun ban has been overturned. Dailey has indicated, prior to the decision, that he would do what he had to to keep the ban in force.
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Daley can try, but he'll likely get hammered with dozens, if not hundreds, of individual lawsuits that will bleed Chicago even dryer.
Surprising how the court vote split out, isn't it? Who ever would have suspected a 5-4 vote on IDEOLOGICAL lines, not lines based on clear intent of the framers.
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Can't conect to the links lots of traffic I guess. 5 to 4? Pitifull. Still a win. Now what?
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Anyone see Helmke's quote on the Brady Campaign webpage?
“We can expect two things as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v the City of Chicago: the gun lobby and gun criminals will use it to try to strike down sensible gun laws. We will continue to fight those challenges, and are confident they will continue to fail.” Gotta give Brady people credit... They certainly have wonderful imaginations when it comes to what is actually happening nationwide...
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Chicago also bans the possession of most handgun ammunition, so that maybe fight #2!!!
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After the decision on Heller vs DC, I'm surprised that this decision fell 5-4 as well.
I'm sure the Brady Campaign anticipated this result and as mentioned, will clearly try to spin it in their own best interest.
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I want the NRA and other gun-rights groups to come into Illinois with hordes of lawyers and fight for concealed carry. If this isn't the time, there will never be a time ...
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Justice Thomas got it right and Kagen will be a piece O' krap - she is anti gun and ................ I think the Brady idiots are probably right and all the stupid laws like the restrictions here in Kalifornia will be upheld as reasonable restrictions. Hope I'm wrong.
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Just looking at CNBC and the gun manufacturer stocks are going up on the news.
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I'm only up to page 21, but Alito has ripped Chicago & Oak Park a new butthole that begins at the heels and goes to the crown of the head.
Applies the 1866 Freedmans Act and as I see it creates a "protected class" of gun owners. Maybe not as protected as race, sex, etc. but certainly more protected than automobile owners. Alito notes several times that self defense "in the home" was NOT the limit of Heller - merely the paramount place of exercise of the right. I'm thinking this is in fact clarification of Heller - in which case DC will be collectively ****ting its pants as they tear out their hair. I've got to read it over again with a note pad at hand, and then do some cross-checking, but my impression is that McDonald is a bigger win than we had any right to expect. With the majority split between due process and privileges it could mean that eventually both will come into play. I'm happy with due process but would really have liked to see privileges prevail. Best of all - actually 2 bests of all 1) Slaughterhouse does not apply, and 2) Cruickshank and Miller are essentially removed from stare decis. Hooray! stay safe. |
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Took a brief peak. Breyer's dissenting opinion, and adopted by Ginsburg and Sotomayor is scary. Very anti-gun. Stevens was in a scholarly duel to the death with Scalia which had little to to with the 2nd Amendment while Roberts, Kennedy and Thomas hopped on the Alito train. Thomas, I really failed to understand his point but from what I gathered he was entertaining legal fiction. This must have been a really entertaining.
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Just a caution, let's keep the pure politics out of it. I deleted one post that strayed that way.
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This is a step in the right direction for sure!
Stephen_Brady, I to would love to see CC in IL soon and your right about the time is NOW! |
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Glad I voted for George W. Bush too. True, if we get even one more liberal judge on the bench, after Kooky Kagan, all is for naught. But, lets celebrate victories when we can! And it is time to celebrate!!!!
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However, I have read that their ideological differences are based on disagreement as to what the framers' clear intent really was. The more conservative ones lean toward a strict constructionist point of view focusing on the idea that the constitution's basic tenets are unchanging and valid for all time, while the more liberal ones lean toward the view that the constitution is a "living document" and that the framers intended it to be adjust as the country went on. So, in some respect, their decisions were based on both ideological lines and based on the framers' clear intent (or at least their interpretations of the framers' clear intent).
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