Justices arm themselves with activism in Chicago gun ban case
By Dana Milbank
WashPost
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
It's about to get easier to shoot people in Chicago.
Actually, it's about to get easier to shoot -- and be shot by -- people in the rest of the country, too.
The robed ones on the Supreme Court left no doubt about that Tuesday morning, making clear that they will strike down the 28-year-old ban on handguns in Al Capone's town. The only questions are: Which legal theory will the pro-gun majority use to arrive at the outcome it desires, and which class of arms -- machine guns, perhaps? -- will it allow Americans to bear next?
The outcome was preordained since the Heller decision in 2008 struck down a similar ban in D.C. Chief Justice John Roberts told James Feldman, Chicago's attorney, that the five-member conservative majority in that case knew just what the Founding Fathers had in mind more than 200 years ago.
(More here.)
WashPost
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
It's about to get easier to shoot people in Chicago.
Actually, it's about to get easier to shoot -- and be shot by -- people in the rest of the country, too.
The robed ones on the Supreme Court left no doubt about that Tuesday morning, making clear that they will strike down the 28-year-old ban on handguns in Al Capone's town. The only questions are: Which legal theory will the pro-gun majority use to arrive at the outcome it desires, and which class of arms -- machine guns, perhaps? -- will it allow Americans to bear next?
The outcome was preordained since the Heller decision in 2008 struck down a similar ban in D.C. Chief Justice John Roberts told James Feldman, Chicago's attorney, that the five-member conservative majority in that case knew just what the Founding Fathers had in mind more than 200 years ago.
(More here.)
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