Second Amendment case to be heard by SCOTUS
The Supreme Court will hear another Second Amendment case (McDonald v. Chicago) to determine whether the Second Amendment applies at the state and local levels. The Court will hear the case after the first of the year, according to the Washington Post.
Alan Gura, who argued and won the Heller case, is the lead attorney and will, presumably, argue this case before the Court.
You can read background on the case over at SCOTUSblog.
Comments
Maybe he will be successful. You know it is interesting that it is Chicago.
Posted by: The Doctor | September 30, 2009 07:08 PM
It will be interesting to see what cases he digs out of the past. A couple of good ones:
As for grounds for arrest: “The carrying of arms in a quiet, peaceable, and orderly manner, concealed on or about the person, is not a breach of the peace. Nor does such an act of itself, lead to a breach of the peace.” (Wharton’s Criminal and Civil Procedure, 12th Ed., Vol.2: Judy v. Lashley, 5 W. Va. 628, 41 S.E. 197
... to prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm ... is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.
WILSON V. STATE, 33 Ark. 557 (1878)
Posted by: The total idiot | November 10, 2009 09:24 AM