I wish a bunch of Representatives and Senators would get together and file a friend of the court brief also expressing the view that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right. Hell, these people are lawyers and they should be able to whip it out in a few days.
Don’t you need a spine to be able to write? I’m just saying...
Amici briefs in support of Heller are not due until Feb. 11, with Heller's own brief due Feb. 4. Since a bunch of DemonRats got together and did this, why not a bunch of Real Republicans (as opposed the too large crop of RINOs in Congress).
Here is the list of DemonRats who filed the brief linked above:
Representative Robert A. Brady (PA-01)
Representative John Conyers, Jr. (MI-14)
Representative Danny K. Davis (IL-07)
Representative Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Representative Sam Farr (CA-17)
Representative Chaka Fattah (PA-02)*
Representative Al Green (TX-09)
Representative Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Representative Michael Honda (CA-15)
Representative Zoe Lofgren (CA-16)
Representative Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04)
Representative Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Representative James P. Moran (VA-08)
Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
Representative Bobby L. Rush (IL-01)
Representative Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Representative Lynn C. Woolsey (CA-06)
Representative Albert R. Wynn (MD-04)
Horrors! One is from Texas! Southwest Houston suburbs, not too far from the Eaker compound.
Their basic argument seems to be that the Court should defer to Congress judgment on interpreting and enforcing the Constitution. And of course the "right of the people" is really "power of the states to arm their militias, which no longer exist" argument that most of the Amici for DC make.
Hard to believe how far things have regressed since Ashcroft made his stand, and went on record with the official position of the US gov being that the 2nd did indeed address an individual right.
Has Ashcroft’s official statement of federal policy ever been rescinded — or is it merely being igored, swept under the rug?