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As originally understood, the Second Amendment has nothing to say about the DC City Council's handgun ban
What might the Supreme Court be writing regarding the DC handgun ban? If the oral argument is any guide, and hopefully it will not be, the Court is invalidating the DC handgun ban, when an originalist understanding would reach the exact opposite result.
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Heller's opportunity to put Law over Politics
Is the Roberts Court about law or politics? The DC gun case gives the Justices a unique opportunity to try out an internal procedure that might silence those who insist that Supreme Court judgment consists of little more than 4 conservatives arrayed against 4 liberals moderated by Justice Kennedy's perspective du jour.
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Positive Liberties at the Point of a Gun or Constitutional Obsolescence?
[Doug Kmiec] Oh, Second Amendment, we hardly knew ye. The Second Amendment has two main parts: a preamble and an operative provision. The preamble: "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state," is a statement of purpose.
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