McDonald v. Chicago (08-1521)

By: rbdwiggins (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 01:10 AM  | 

If Tuesday’s oral arguments before the Court were any indication, the individual right to keep and bear arms is fundamental, and there is no way to read Heller that makes the 2nd Amendment anything less than a fundamental right. JUSTICE KENNEDY: But I thought its rationale was that because of its fundamental character, the right to bear arms must be understood as separate from the | Read More »

Ohio 2008

By: rbdwiggins (Diary)  |  October 17th at 06:25 PM  | 

Via scotusblog: In re: Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party The Supreme Court, acting on the case after the Circuit Justice, Justice John Paul Stevens referred the matter to the full bench, not only granted the secretary of state’s plea to stay the federal judge’s temporary restraining order, but actually vacated it, thus removing any legal obligation spelled out in that order.