Posted on 06/28/2010 7:09:37 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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According to Dennis Miller, Letterman is afflicted with self-loathing.
By comparison Liddy brags of his ability to provide a woman with infinite orgasms.
He could no doubt kill Letterman with his bare hands by stuffing the latter's entire leg through the gap in his front teeth.
The problem the court had, as I see it, is that Privileges or Immunities opens the door to many other issues including gay marriage and perhaps even the validity of some federal statutes like the FDA act and others.
Only Thomas has the courage to stand on principle and take the good with the bad. The others in the majority voted for due process and kicked the ball on PorI down the road for another case.
It is too bad because Slaughterhouse and Cruikshank are horrible decisions. Cruikshank is perhaps one of the worst rulings the Supreme Court ever made - it essentially held that Blacks did not have the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights because, at the time, the BoR was not incorporated to the states!
That was why the 14th amendment was passed in the first place. (It is too bad that more groups like the Gays and NAACP did not lobby the court - their leaders are clearly sympathetic to gun restrictions but 2A is a fundamental civil rights issue and this was an opportunity for the court to reverse the worst civil rights violation it ever made, but nobody but the 2A groups stepped up to the plate).
Now, 100+ years after that horrible decision, and after the 14th amendment, and STILL they won’t apply the BoR in its entirety to the States! It is an absolute shame.
The left won’t do it because they don’t want guns, and they don’t want things like Grand Jury for traffic fines incorporated - even though we all know the 14th amendment incorporated these rights 100 years ago! The right won’t do it because they don’t want Gay Marriage and drug laws repealed for opposite reasons.
So we are stuck in the middle with Due Process. Fortunately Thomas went for both Due Process and PorI. He is truly imho the best American on the court.
Fortunately the court has pushed the 2A onto the states, so now the door is open for California, Chicago, Hawaii and other states to become more liberal when it comes to guns... While the ruling only forces Chicago to lift their draconian ban (and it may be the only city to have such a ban), hopefully we will get more suits out of it which the courts will have to go our way on. Now that 2A is a fundamental right, it would take strict scrutiny for a state or city to restrict the right to Keep and Bear arms.
There are several suits pending in the Western region on hold. Now that McDonald went our way we think we can force the state of California to become CCW friendly to both residents and non-residents, to eradicate some of the restrictions we have on certain weapons, and hopefully even get rid of the 10 day waiting period and 1 gun a month laws. Those laws may hold for the first purchase IF there is no faster way to prove eligibility but should not hold after a person is proven to be eligible (non violent felon, not mentally ill etc).
Nothing, of course.
I mean, let's be realistic, OK?
Wake me up when they repeal the Sullivan law...
That's hilarious. Did they ask her to define "unbiased"?
I missed that knee-slapper, but I managed to catch another one -- I heard her say that it was important for the Supreme Court to be sensitive to the will of the people and current social opinions (rough paraphrase, if anyone has verbatim please post it) when rendering its decisions.
Silly me, I thought they were supposed to render their decisions in light of THE CONSTITUTION, rather than current "crowd logic" -- what this dolt advocates is nothing less than the official sanctification of mob rule.
The basis of our Constitutional PROTECTIONS is that "fifty percent plus one" may NOT lynch me if they don't like the shape of my nose.
Well played
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