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*LIVE THREAD* DC vs Heller decision due at 10:00 EST (2nd Amendment)
SCOTUS Blog ^ | 6-26-08 | shameless vanity

Posted on 06/26/2008 3:55:39 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat

Today is the day.

The folks at SCOTUS blog will be providing a live blog to follow developments as quickly as possible.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: banglist; bitter; elections; heller; judiciary; scalia; scotus; secondamendment; shallnotbeinfringed
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To: Blue Turtle
Excellent comment.

IMO, Lew Rockwell's gone off the deep end, but a few years back he expressed a similar sentiment and one that best sums up my idea of government: I'd like to live in an America where I don't have to care about what happens in DC.

61 posted on 06/26/2008 5:40:31 AM PDT by manapua
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To: Laverne

I’m worried because of decisions like Kelo. In the DC gun case, some possible decisions:
1. It’s a municipality, in fact; a city, and therefore...
2. It’s federal territory, and that means...
3. It’s your home, and one’s home is one’s castle, that the rain may enter but the King may not.

Number 3 is practically a fairy tale now. “Once upon a time there used to be a place where dreams are born, miles beyond the reach of the king; it’s not on any chart...it’s right there where you stand!”

If it defined a DC home as being under federal or local jurisdiction with regard to gun possession, a ruling for gun grabbers would be like a court order to enter the premises of every home in America. It’s hard to imagine the Court letting that happen.

But then again...Kelo.

Whose home is it? Yours or your neighbor’s, your town council’s, the developers, the state’s, the federal government’s?


62 posted on 06/26/2008 5:40:37 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Teach your child to be an American. Take him out of public school.)
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To: RKBA Democrat
Checking in.

Wasn't a very restful night last night. I haven't felt this tense since the night they told us we'd be deploying to Iraq in support of Operation Desert Storm.

63 posted on 06/26/2008 5:42:01 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: WesA

Rehnquist would’ve been against D.C. O’Conner would’ve been whatever roll of the dice said.


64 posted on 06/26/2008 5:42:10 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Obama will dismantle America and remake it as his own marxist utopia.)
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To: RKBA Democrat
I did not want to say anything about this until now...but I met Chief Justice Roberts about two weeks ago at a sporting event. We spoke about the game and finally, I could not stop myself, and said: "A lot of conservatives like me are really REALLY looking forward to your Second Amendment decision this month." So as to not make him feel uncomfortable, I did not look at him directly when I said that. My friend--who was looking at him--said that he smiled.

He was the nicest guy you could meet. Just a plain-spoken Indiana boy. Here's hoping...

65 posted on 06/26/2008 5:42:33 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: manapua
If you have seen the videos of firearms confiscation in NOLA, there is one guy that states, "This isn't America. I want a Country that treats its citizens with benign neglect."

Leave us alone. Don't tread on me...

66 posted on 06/26/2008 5:43:44 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: RKBA Democrat

bump


67 posted on 06/26/2008 5:43:45 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Beware the fury of the man that cannot find hope or justice.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
I’m worried because of decisions like Kelo

I saw on The Grapevine last night, that the property the house was on is now vacant.

Seems that the businessman who "stoled" the property by Judaical activism has no one offering to join him in building up the property.

68 posted on 06/26/2008 5:47:24 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, freerepublic.com baby)
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To: Dead Corpse

“Wasn’t a very restful night last night.”

Same here.


69 posted on 06/26/2008 5:47:41 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

“Whose home is it? Yours or your neighbor’s, your town council’s, the developers, the state’s, the federal government’s?”

The bank’s!


70 posted on 06/26/2008 5:48:12 AM PDT by mark3681
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To: Centurion2000; DaveLoneRanger; Joe Brower
Checking in....have to go to work first and work out some CUSIP discrepencies, and then to the gun store.....

Will have my laptop with me ....

....waiting with extreme anticipation...

...oh yeah, can someone please link the actual document of the decision when you get it?

THANKS!

71 posted on 06/26/2008 5:49:54 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Good catch my apology’s


72 posted on 06/26/2008 5:50:13 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Joe Brower
After these last few rulings from the court, I'm not assuming anything even if Scalia is (supposedly) writing the opinion.

Anxiously waiting...

73 posted on 06/26/2008 5:52:33 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: mware

Love your tagline! And looking forward to the day FR has commercials. On its own tv network of course.


74 posted on 06/26/2008 5:53:42 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Teach your child to be an American. Take him out of public school.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Thanks for the live thread, btw.


75 posted on 06/26/2008 5:55:33 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: Dead Corpse

Haven’t seen any videos, but will search for them. I have spoken to a guy who went through that and it just makes me furious. In a disaster, I can expect to be stripped of the ability to defend my family... pure insanity.


76 posted on 06/26/2008 5:55:53 AM PDT by manapua
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

LOL, I was walking down the hallway of the school I teach in, when two students in back of me, started to sing, the exact words of my tagline.


77 posted on 06/26/2008 5:58:01 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, freerepublic.com baby)
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To: Prole

Prole - I’ve got a “Celebrate Diversity” t-shirt with the handguns on it.

Back in early 2000s, I wore it to one of my law school classes at the Univeristy of Florida. Man, did I get some dirty looks that day


78 posted on 06/26/2008 6:00:57 AM PDT by jhpigott
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To: OKSooner

“Thanks for the live thread, btw.”

Oh, you’re very welcome. What might be the most important SCOTUS decision of my lifetime....you can bet I was going to start a live thread!

Let’s hope the servers keep plugging away.


79 posted on 06/26/2008 6:01:35 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: RKBA Democrat

We’re all in our places, with bright shining faces . . .


80 posted on 06/26/2008 6:01:41 AM PDT by tumblindice (Americas Founding Fathers, all armed conservatives)
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