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D.C. v. Heller: The Court's Liberal Wing Shoots Itself In The Foot
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| July 15, 2008
| David T. Hardy
Posted on 08/31/2008 7:07:57 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:07:57 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Both dissents are not merely mistaken, but (if I may be so blunt) shoddy. Yep, shoddy. Obvious even to this layman. And to think they make fun of Clarence Thomas' writing skills! I love reading his opinions almost as much as Scalia's. The liberal side should be embarassed.
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:13:06 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
To: neverdem
Kinda makes this election all that more important, doesn’t it?
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:13:46 PM PDT
by
Panzerlied
("We shall never surrender!")
To: neverdem
I can believe there are people capable of reading English who don’t realize the 2nd Amendment applies to individuals. Really scary.
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:14:31 PM PDT
by
Always Right
(Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
To: neverdem
So who will appoint the next justices? McCain or Obama?
So much rides on this election.
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:16:21 PM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
To: neverdem
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:17:50 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
To: neverdem
FYI the term “well-regulated” at the time the 2A was written meant “well provsioned.”
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:18:50 PM PDT
by
185JHP
( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
To: Iron Munro
He sure loved aiding and abetting the murder of babies.
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:18:51 PM PDT
by
LiberalsSpendYourMoney
(Barry, you're more racist than 99% of Americans. And you're ugly.)
To: neverdem
This to me shows their Judicial Activism. They do not even care if they are correct,they are trying to make law. I wonder if it could be grounds for impeachment. Judges and the system punish Americans daily for mistakes. Lawyers never get sued for shoddy work or representation. Something needs to be done.
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:19:19 PM PDT
by
gunnedah
To: LiberalsSpendYourMoney
Even a blind pig will root up an acorn now and then.
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:22:05 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
To: neverdem
But it was historic for another reason: the sheer number of mistakes made in the dissenters' opinions. Given that all four dissenters co-signed the Stevens and Breyer dissenting opinions, this means that the mistakes must have escaped, not only four members of the highest court in the land, but their sixteen research clerks! More likely they just don't care; us vs. them, that's it. This is what makes me think that sooner or later, the U.S. may have to be split up.
To: Iron Munro
And Hillary sits in what was his seat. So I guess he was preferable to her, and RFK was preferable to Moynihan, haha.
Gosh, have to go back awhile in that seat. RFK was pro-life. Many don’t realize that. He’d be ostracized from the Democrat Party today.
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:29:58 PM PDT
by
LiberalsSpendYourMoney
(Barry, you're more racist than 99% of Americans. And you're ugly.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:42:19 PM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: neverdem
The logical conclusion is that the dissenters cared not so much about constitutional law as about policy, and what they find good policy simply had to be constitutional. There's one other reason.
Stevens is obviously laboring under the impairment of senility. Some of his recent opinions (Kelo, for instance) have been chock full of factual errors, even citing the 180-degree opposite of some prior decisions.
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posted on
08/31/2008 7:51:21 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: LiberalsSpendYourMoney
Hed be ostracized from the Democrat Party today. Harry Truman and JFK too.
The dems today would burn Scoop Jackson at the stake as an heretic if they could buy carbon offsets for the combustion byproducts.
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posted on
08/31/2008 8:00:09 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
To: wendy1946
This is what makes me think that sooner or later, the U.S. may have to be split up.
Never! Not one inch of US soil will go to the anti-Americans. They will simply be...removed.
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posted on
08/31/2008 8:04:26 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: neverdem
OK. If the 2A only means that states may maintain a militia it, thereby, means that states have a right to maintain nuclear arms, cruise missiles and aircraft carriers.
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posted on
08/31/2008 8:21:11 PM PDT
by
groanup
(Eat more possum! (it tastes better than crow.))
To: wendy1946
This is what makes me think that sooner or later, the U.S. may have to be split up. I agree. I believe in my lifetime (the next 40 years) we'll see some sort of actual civil war of the shooting kind.
The differences between the Obama-liberals and constitutionalists is just too great.
To: groanup
The Constitution already assures states the power to maintain their militias. The 2ndA was obviously not added to just re-iterate what was already made clear.
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posted on
08/31/2008 8:33:03 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
To: 185JHP
FYI the term well-regulated at the time the 2A was written meant well provsioned. No it did not, it meant "properly functioning", "fit for its intended purpose". They spoke of "well-regulated" cities, "well-regulated" appetites, and "well-regulated" clocks.
Now in the case of a militia, one precondition for being "Well regulated" would be to be well provisioned/equipped". But "well trained" is also required, as is "well lead".
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posted on
08/31/2008 8:47:56 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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