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IN THE Supreme Court of the United States ____________________ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ET AL., PETITIONERS, v. DICK ANTHONY HELLER, RESPONDENT. ____________________ On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ____________________ BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE OF GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA, INC., GUN OWNERS FOUNDATION, MARYLAND SHALL ISSUE, INC., VIRGINIA CITIZENS DEFENSE LEAGUE, GUN OWNERS OF CALIFORNIA, INC., LINCOLN INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION, AND CONSERVATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT ____________________ HERBERT W. TITUS* WILLIAM J. OLSON JOHN S. MILES JEREMIAH L. MORGAN WILLIAM J. OLSON, P.C. 8180...

Last week, the Bush administration put troubling distance between itself and principled Second Amendment defenders. We refer to the amicus brief that Solicitor General Paul Clement filed Friday in support of the plaintiffs in District of Columbia v. Heller — the D.C. gun-ban challenge, widely expected to be the court's most significant gun-rights case in 60 years when a decision is reached. The brief sides with the D.C. plaintiffs seeking to exercise their Second Amendment rights, but it then expends much effort worrying that an end to gun bans like the District's would mean an end to most types of...

Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) has sent the following letter to the White House asking them to undo the huge harm they have caused the Second Amendment with the brief they filed in the DC gun ban case. ------------------------------------- January 22, 2008 President George W. Bush The White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC 20500 Dear President Bush: Your Solicitor General has just filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the D.C. v. Heller case arguing that categorical gun bans of virtually all self-defense firearms are constitutional if a court determines they are "reasonable" -- the lowest standard of constitutional...

If the justices accept that advice when they hear the case in the spring, it could mean additional years of litigation over the controversial Second Amendment and could undo a ruling that was a seminal victory for gun rights enthusiasts. Some were livid. One conservative Web site said the administration had "blundered in catastrophic fashion," and another turned Clement, usually a pinup for conservative legal scholars, into a digital dartboard. Rep. Eric Cantor (Va.), the Republicans' chief deputy whip, called the brief "just outrageous," and Republican presidential candidate and former senator Fred D. Thompson (Tenn.) accused the Justice Department of...

As the date for Supreme Court argument in District of Columbia v. Heller approaches, the filing of briefs has begun. The District filed its brief last week. In addition, various “amicus curiae” (friend of the court) briefs were filed with the court.

FROM THE SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS 900 R.R. 620 S Suite C101, Box 228 Lakeway, TX 78734 World Wide Web: http://www.2asisters.org ============================== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/20/07 ============================== For additional information contact: Genie Jennings, SAS Spokesperson Phone: 877-271-6216 E-mail: saspress@2asisters.org ============================== Lakeway, TX – SAS ANNOUNCES AMICUS BRIEF IN HELLERSecond Amendment Sisters is pleased and proud to announce that we are joining South East Legal Foundation in filing an amicus brief in the Supreme Court hearing of Washington, D.C. v. Heller. We are particularly interested in the benefits of firearms in self-defense for women, the elderly and the disabled. SAS has...

Conservative legal scho;ars have long warned that judges' reliance on foreign opinions might undermine the mechanism for setting domestic policy under the Constitution. Now, for the second time, a friend of the court brief has been submitted to the Supreme Court by foreign politicians in a case relating to detainees at Guantánamo, suggesting that constitutional control over foreign policy could be similarly jeopardized. The case is Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, challenging the administration's military commissions for trying Guantánamo detainees. In the course of the litigation, a shifting group of "current and former members of the United Kingdom and European Union Parliaments"...

In response to a decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals made on July 15, 2005 (joined by Judge John Roberts) which upheld the constitutionality of the military tribunals, terrorist Salim Hamdan has filed a plea motion to the US Supreme Court to reconsider this case and overturn the previous ruling. This petition was filed August 8, 2005 in the case entitled Hamdan vs Rumsfeld. David Remes Joining the terrorist in his petition as amici curiae (friendly briefs) are a host of interesting anti-American characters. Chief among them is David H. Remes, a staunch anti-pledge of allegiance attorney and...

The Democratic National Committee's appointed religion adviser has resigned after a Catholic group criticized her for supporting an atheist's claim that the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson stepped down as the DNC's senior religion adviser, telling the Religion News Service that "it was no longer possible for me to do my job effectively." "The only question now is whether [Democratic presidential candidate] John Kerry and the DNC have finally got the message. When we exposed Mara Vanderslice as a Left-wing activist who cavorts with anti-Catholics, the Kerry camp silenced her as...

On July 23, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Terry McAuliffe announced the appointment of Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson as the Senior Advisor for Religious Outreach; she is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Commenting on her selection is Catholic League president William Donohue: “Terry McAuliffe says that the appointment of Rev. Peterson as the new Senior Advisor for Religious Outreach ‘reflects the DNC’s commitment to reaching all people of faith’; he also notes that she ‘will act as liaison to religious organizations.’ Upon learning of this appointment, we decided to find out who this woman is....

WASHINGTON — The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday denied Sen. Edward Kennedy's petition to file an amicus brief in three cases in order to challenge the constitutionality of Judge William Pryor's recess appointment. Kennedy, however, has vowed to keep challenging Pryor's appointment. "It's disappointing that the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit declined to consider, at least for now, the constitutionality of President Bush's recess appointment of William Pryor to that court in February," Kennedy said in a statement.

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the city of Terrell, Texas, after the city's ban on religious activities on city-owned property prompted a local church to file a lawsuit, according to the Liberty Legal Institute. As WorldNetDaily reported, the legal group helped Purpose Life Church sue the city in March after officials ousted the congregation from the Kaufman County YMCA. The church had been leasing space at the Y for church services. Though the YMCA leases the facility from the city, municipal regulations still apply in the building. The church held services at the Y for...

Government can't join Scouts in their lawsuit Federal judge bars filing in Fiesta Island dispute The U.S. Justice Department can't join the Boy Scouts in their legal fight to continue leasing a Fiesta Island aquatics center from the city, a federal judge has ruled. District Judge Napoleon Jones Jr. has refused to let the Justice Department file a brief in support of the Boy Scouts, which has been involved in a protracted dispute with the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU, representing a lesbian couple and an agnostic couple who have sons wanting to become Scouts, argues that the Scouts...

Supporters of so-called "domestic partner" benefits have suffered a legal setback in Michigan.A federal judge has denied requests made by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Women's Law Association, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University to file amicus or "friend of the court" briefs in support of the Ann Arbor Public Schools. The school system was sued earlier this year by the Thomas More Law Center for providing insurance benefits to the same-sex partners of its employees.The Michigan-based public interest law firm asserted in its lawsuit that offering insurance benefits to the same-sex partners of public school employees...

The National Rifle Association has filed a brief in support of what backers are calling a potential landmark gun-rights case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Sponsored primarily by KeepAndBearArms.com, or KABA, a pro-gun rights website and organization, the case challenges "the California semi-auto rifle ban on the basis of Second Amendment protection of our individual right to keep and bear arms," according to the group's website. M-16a2, banned in California. California lawmakers banned a number of rifles under the Assault Weapons Control Act in 1989, but a decade later, the state also restricted the sale, manufacture, or importation into...

Friend of the Court Brief filed in United States Supreme Court Contact: Maria Heil of Second Amendment Sisters, 877-797-4857 (press only) or email: press@2asisters.org AUSTIN, TX-August 8, 2003-A friend of the Court brief has been filed by the nation’s leading pro-self-defense women’s organization, Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.(SAS) In July, a Petition for Writ of Certiorari was filed in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Silveira, et al. vs. Lockyer, et al. This week, Second Amendment Sisters filed an Amicus Curiae (or Friend of the Court) brief supporting the Petitioners and citing reasons for the Supreme Court to...

<p>ASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is poised to rule on affirmative action at the University of Michigan, and if it reaffirms the right of American colleges to use race in selecting students, that will be due in part to what has become known as the ''military brief.''</p>

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does the United States Constitution protect the right to engage in homosexual sodomy? 2. Does the United States Constitution forbid the States to make legal classifications based on a person's choice to engage in sexual activity with another person of the same sex? INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE The States of Alabama, South Carolina, and Utah submit this brief as AMICI CURIAE in support of the respondent State of Texas, urging this Court to affirm the judgment of the Texas Court of Appeals and not to recognize homosexual sodomy as a fundamental constitutional right or as a suspect...

BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE OF THE CENTER FOR THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE CONSTITUTION IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTINTEREST OF AMICUS IN THIS CASE * The Center for the Original Intent of the Constitution (COIC) operates under the auspices of Patrick Henry College. The COIC contends that the interpretation of the Constitution according to the original intent of the Founders provides the only sure safeguard for the preservation of limited government and individual rights. The COIC exists to systematically research and advocate constitutional interpretation according to the principle of original intent. Our Founders established a federal government with limited and enumerated powers....