Many of us were really excited after DC vs Heller, the Supreme Court decision which got rid of DC’s blanket ban on handgun ownership. Now, roughly a year later, a Washington post reporter tests the waters to see what it actually takes to get a gun in DC, and, well, the results aren’t encouraging:...
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Post-Heller reality
More On Proposition 8
If you haven’t heard, it has definitely passed. Whether it’ll invalidate any of the gay marriages from the previous few months in California is less clear. A few days ago, the San Francisco Chronicle featured a decent article on the controversy: Some legal commentators say Prop. 8, if passed Tuesday, would retroactively invalidate all...
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In Case You Got Lost in the Obamagasm
Some sad news to temper your joy. Proposition 8 passed in California. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, this proposition–written to override the California Supreme Court’s decision granting marriage equality to gays–will deprive gays of their recently-recognized right to marry in the state. So far, 16,000 gays have married...
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Who Wants to go Shopping?
Report here: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, for the first time in the nation’s history, that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, and struck down a strict gun control law in the nation’s capital. The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly...
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An Ever-expanding Executive is Not Conservative
“No state power is more fearsome than the power to imprison. Hence the habeas right has been at the heart of the centuries-long struggle to constrain governments, a struggle in which the greatest event was the writing of America’s Constitution, which limits Congress’s power to revoke habeas corpus to periods of rebellion or invasion....
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Gay Marriage in California
The California Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage today, holding that the state must treat gay and straight couples equally in this regard. This is a big deal for gay marriage advocates, obviously. Note, of course, that the Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t mandate gay marriage. It simply requires that the legal...
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Racial Preferences Now, Racial Preferences Tomorrow, Racial Preferences Forever!
A very illuminating article in the New York Times “Week In Review” was published yesterday. Written by GW Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen, it was devoted to speculation about the meaningfulness of the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, the public school racial preferences case. For an...
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Nice Timing…
The Supreme Court will be taking up in two consolidated cases the GTMO issue. Previously, it had denied the appeals in these two cases, but it reversed its decision today. Here we go again.
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For those of you keeping up a "Free Speech" scoreboard at home.
Burning flags- legal Burning Draft cards-illegal Giving as much money as you want to a candidate you support-illegal Giving as much money you want to a private organization that will support a candidate-legal “Bong hits 4 Jesus”- illegal Praying in schools- illegalThe Supreme Court coming to a solid stance on “Free Speech”-illegal
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More free speech, this time for a good cause.
The Supreme Court also decided in favor of free speech, and unborn babies, in two other cases today. In McCain v. Wisconsin Right To Life and FEC v. Wisconsin Right To Life, the Court said that grassroot organizations should not be barred from running issue ads before a primary or an election (an action...
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