Yesterday there were several comments on/about the role of the meda.
In my morning mail, I found the following of which I have not had the time to review all. However I do believe that they would be more detailed than some of the news web sites:
Justices Reject D.C. Ban On Handgun Ownership
5-4 Ruling Finds 1976 Law Incompatible With Second Amendment
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062600615.html
Landmark Ruling Enshrines Right to Own Guns
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court on Thursday embraced the long-disputed view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for personal use, ruling 5 to 4 that there is a constitutional right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-defense
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/wa...2qGRxYrmL6Ij3A
In a First, High Court
Affirms Gun Rights
By JESS BRAVIN and SUSAN DAVIS
June 27, 2008; Page A1
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees individuals the right to keep handguns in the home, ending a debate about the Second Amendment's 18th-century language while opening new battles over the politically charged issues of guns, crime and violence
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1214...ys_us_page_one
Supreme Court affirms gun rights
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the first time that the 2nd Amendment explicitly protects Americans' right to own guns for self-defense -- resolving one of the Constitution's oldest disputes and reviving the debate over gun rights, crime and violence.
The landmark decision struck down a District of Columbia ordinance, the strictest in the nation, that barred homeowners from keeping handguns. The ruling brought immediate court challenges to similar laws in Chicago and San Francisco.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,7648354.story
Landmark ruling ignites challenges to firearms laws
The Supreme Court says individuals have a right to guns, but many questions remain
By Joan Biskupic and Kevin Johnson
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's historic decision Thursday carving out an individual right to gun ownership immediately cast doubt on gun restrictions nationwide, as firearms-rights advocates prepared to file a new round of lawsuits testing the scope of the ruling.
Hours after the 5-4 ruling that struck down a ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., gun rights supporters signaled they will challenge gun restrictions in cities and suburbs across the nation.
The majority opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, established for the first time in U.S. history that the Constitution's Second Amendment gives individuals the right to keep guns at home for self-defense. Yet Scalia noted that a person's right to gun ownership is not unlimited. He said it would not likely override bans on concealed weapons; laws that prohibit felons and the mentally ill from possessing firearms; or those that ban firearms in government buildings and schools.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition...27_dom.art.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition...0627/index.htm
News Analysis
Coming Next, Court Fights on Guns in Cities
WASHINGTON — The individual right to bear arms identified by the
Supreme Court on Thursday will have little practical impact in most of the country, legal experts said, though Washington’s comprehensive ban on handguns used for self-defense in the home will have to be revised, and similar laws in several cities are also vulnerable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/wa...ef=todayspaper
Judicial activism by conservatives
[COLOR=#333333! important]The high court's 2nd Amendment opinion makes the majority's agenda clear.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#999999! important]By Erwin Chemerinsky
June 27, 2008 [/COLOR]
The Supreme Court's invalidation of the District of Columbia's handgun ban powerfully shows that the conservative rhetoric about judicial restraint is a lie. In striking down the law, Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion, joined by the court's four other most conservative justices, is quite activist in pursuing the conservative political agenda of protecting gun owners.
If the terms "judicial activism" and "judicial restraint" have any meaning, it is that a court is activist when it is invalidating laws and overruling precedent, and restrained when deferring to popularly elected legislatures and following prior decisions.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,6464156.story
The D.C. Handgun Ruling
Originalism Goes Out the Window
In knocking down the District's 32-year-old ban on handgun possession, the conservatives on the Supreme Court have again shown their willingness to abandon precedent in order to do whatever is necessary to further the agenda of the contemporary political right.
The court's five most conservative members have demonstrated that for all of Justice
Antonin Scalia's talk about "originalism" as a coherent constitutional doctrine, those on the judicial right regularly succumb to the temptation to legislate from the bench. They fall in line behind whatever fashions political conservatism is promoting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062603655.html