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We won

J.Gleason

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WE Won!

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 4 minutes ago


breaking news

WASHINGTON — The Constitution's "right to keep and bear arms" applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of government to limit its application, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The justices cast doubt on a Chicago-area handgun ban that has been in place since 1982, but also signaled in their 5-4 decision that less severe restrictions could survive legal challenges.

The ruling on gun rights and three other remaining cases came in its last meeting until the fall and the final day of Justice John Paul Stevens' long service.

The Supreme Court also rejected appeals by the Obama administration and the nation's largest tobacco companies to get involved in a legal fight about the dangers of cigarette smoking that has stretched more than 10 years.

The court's action, issued without comment Monday, leaves in place court rulings that the tobacco industry illegally concealed the dangers of smoking for decades. But it also prevents the administration from trying to extract billions of dollars from the industry either in past profits or to fund a national campaign to curb smoking.

The court met Monday morning just a couple of hours before high court nominee Elena Kagan goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing.

The 90-year-old Stevens announced his retirement in April, paving the way for President Barack Obama to nominate Kagan to replace him. Kagan's hearing begins early afternoon in Washington, in a Senate hearing room a short walk from the court.


Stevens will retire as the second-oldest justice, after Oliver Wendell Holmes, and tied for second-longest tenure with Stephen Field, whose service began during the Civil War. Stevens' retirement will take effect on Tuesday, after 34 years, six months and 11 days as a justice.

William Douglas has the record, with more than 36 years on the Supreme Court.


Don't you just love how the media quickly moves off the subject and starts talking about big tobbacco?
 
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9:30


Tom:
Good morning everyone.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:30 Tom
9:32


Tom:
Thank goodness Bilski will come out today. I'm out of bad patent jokes.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:32 Tom
9:33


Tom:
So after orders, guns should come first today -- from Justice Alito
Monday June 28, 2010 9:33 Tom
9:34

Monday June 28, 2010 9:34
9:35


Tom:
When Heller was decided, we had our biggest day ever, by far -- 300,000 hits. Americans care about gun rights.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:35 Tom
9:37


Erin:

To learn more about the four cases to be decided today, see their SCOTUSwiki pages, which are linked to their names at the top of this post.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:37 Erin
9:37


Tom:
i'm also surprised that there isn't more interest in the conservative and religious communities in Christian Legal Society.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:37 Tom
9:39


Tom:
Incorporation will be under the Due Process Clause.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:39 Tom
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Tom:
Here is my best bet on how the cases will be dcided: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/06/the-final-four-decisions/
Monday June 28, 2010 9:42 Tom
9:43


Tom:
Welcome to folks coming from Drudge Report, which we really thank for the link.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:43 Tom
9:44


Tom:
The link should work -- it's just that our traffic is so high that it may have trouble loading.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:44 Tom
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Monday June 28, 2010 9:45
9:46


Tom:
Just a reminder -- please do not refresh
Monday June 28, 2010 9:46 Tom
9:50


Tom:
Right now there are 3500 people watching the live blog, but that will be going up
Monday June 28, 2010 9:50 Tom
9:50


Tom:
Zero percent say no incorporation -- I love it.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:50 Tom
9:51


Tom:
We do not know if Justice Ginsburg will be on the bench, given the passing of her husband yesterday.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:51 Tom
9:55


Erin:
Believe it or not, we also expect orders this morning as well as the final four opinions. Our list of Petitions to Watch for this orders release is here.
Monday June 28, 2010 9:55 Erin
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Tom:
3 minutes
Monday June 28, 2010 9:57 Tom
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Tom:
Stay tuned; please don't refresh
Monday June 28, 2010 9:59 Tom
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Tom:
My bet is roughly 25,000 people are watching the live blog.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:01 Tom
10:02


Erin:

The Chief Justice opened the public session with a tribute to Martin Ginsburg.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:02 Erin
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Tom:
We believe Justice Ginsburg is on the bench.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:03 Tom
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Erin:
The Court denies review of all seven tobacco petitions, including one by the U.S.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:04 Erin
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Erin:
Alito announces McDonald v. Chicago: reversed and remanded
Monday June 28, 2010 10:04 Erin
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Tom:
Gun rights prevail
Monday June 28, 2010 10:04 Tom
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Erin:

The opinion concludes that the 14th Amendment does incorporate the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller to keep and bear arms in self defense
Monday June 28, 2010 10:05 Erin
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Tom:
5-4
Monday June 28, 2010 10:05 Tom
10:05


Erin:
Stevens dissents for himself. Breyer dissents, joined by Ginsburg and Sotomayor.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:05 Erin
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Tom:
The majority seems divided, presumably on the precise standard
Monday June 28, 2010 10:05 Tom
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Erin:
The majority Justices do not support all parts of the Alito opinion, but all five agree that the 2d Amendment applies to state and local government.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:06 Erin
10:06


Erin:
Alito, in the part of the opinion joined by three Justices, concludes that the 2d Amendment is incorporated through the Due Process Clause.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:06 Erin
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Erin:
Thomas thinks the Amendment is incorporated, but not under Due Process. He appears to base incorporation on Privileges or Immunities.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:07 Erin
10:07


Erin:
The Court has granted review of six cases.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:07 Erin
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Erin:
Among them is the challenge to the AZ law regulating work for illegal immigrants: U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria, 09-115
Monday June 28, 2010 10:07 Erin
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Erin:
The Court asks for the views of the Solicitor General in 09-1159, Board of Trustees of Stanford University v. Roche
Monday June 28, 2010 10:08 Erin
10:08


Tom:
The difference between the majority and Justice Thomas doesn't affect the fact that the Second Amendment now applies to state and local reguation.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:08 Tom
10:08


Erin:
The McDonald opinion is here
Monday June 28, 2010 10:08 Erin
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Erin:
The full orders list is here
Monday June 28, 2010 10:09 Erin
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Erin:
It should be noted that, in the guns case, the Court says explicitly in Alito's opinion that it would not reconsider the Slaughterhouse cases, which almost completely deprive the Privileges or Immunities Clause of any constitutional meaning.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:10 Erin
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Erin:
The opinion leaves the fate of the Chicago gun ordinance in the hands of the 7th Circuit on remand.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:11 Erin
10:11


Erin:
All nine members of the Court are on the bench, including, of course, Justice Ginsburg.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:11 Erin
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Erin:
Just a reminder: please do not refresh
Monday June 28, 2010 10:12 Erin
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Erin:

The scope of the Chicago gun ordinance in question in McDonald is very similar to that of the DC gun law struck down in DC v. Heller in 2008. Therefore its fate is probably already determined by applying Heller's reasoning to it.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:16 Erin
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Erin:
We will post on the blog later today examining the impact of McDonald on existing types of gun control laws
Monday June 28, 2010 10:17 Erin
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Erin:

Breyer is now reciting from his dissenting opinion in McDonald. We don't know yet whether Stevens will announce from his, because he is senior to Breyer and so would go after him.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:18 Erin
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Erin:
We are also holding a "debate" on McDonald after today's live blog, with posts from scholars and lawyers analyzing the opinion. We will continue to post these throughout the day and into tomorrow, at least.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:22 Erin
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Erin:
I just got the first submission.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:22 Erin
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Erin:

Breyer is still reciting from his dissent.
Monday June 28, 2010 10:28 Erin
10:29


Erin:
For McDonald, there are 204 pages of opinions total, plus 4 pages of appendix for the Breyer opinion.
 
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This is a great way to start out a week. The great mayor Daley is proibably going to try to reinvent ways to take away peoples rights. I heard him on public radio this morning, he will let nothing stop him, he will find a way to control the guns if it's the last thing he does. The citizens of chicago need to wake up and vote him out the first chance they get.
 

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http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf 214 pages 1.09 MB

Justice Thomas argued for incorporation via P&I, but with the Slaughterhouse Cases gone, so is P&I! No more expansion of 'civil rights' into drug legalization, homophilia, &c.

Oh yes,
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The prohibitionists and homophobs are safe in their ways for a while longer yet.
 

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Oh yes, The prohibitionists and homophobs are safe in their ways for a while longer yet.
Those are merely your favorites? How about the "right to vote" and do we deny it to Juan Carlos Lopez-Casteneda?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/#1

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Categories of Rights

A right to life, a right to choose; a right to vote, to work, to strike; a right to one phone call, to dissolve parliament, to operate a forklift, to asylum, to equal treatment before the law, to feel proud of what one has done; a right to exist, to sentence an offender to death, to launch a nuclear first strike, to carry a concealed weapon, to a distinct genetic identity; a right to believe one's own eyes, to pronounce the couple husband and wife, to be left alone, to go to hell in one's own way.

We encounter assertions of rights as we encounter sounds: persistently and in great variety. Making sense of this profusion of assertions requires that we class rights together by common attributes. Rights-assertions can be categorized, for example, according to:

Who is alleged to have the right: Children's rights, animal rights, workers' rights, states' rights, the rights of peoples.

What actions or states or objects the asserted right pertains to: Rights of free expression, to pass judgment; rights of privacy, to remain silent; property rights, bodily rights.

Why the rightholder (allegedly) has the right: Moral rights spring from moral reasons, legal rights derive from the laws of the society, customary rights are aspects of local customs.

How the asserted right can be affected by the rightholder's actions: The inalienable right to life, the forfeitable right to liberty, and the waivable right that a promise be kept.

Many of these categories have sub-categories. For instance, natural rights are the sub-class of moral rights that humans have because of their nature. Or again, the rights of political speech are a subclass of the rights of free expression.

The study of particular rights is primarily an investigation into how such categories and sub-categories overlap. There has been much discussion, for example, of whether human rights are natural rights, whether the right to privacy is a legal right, and whether the legal right to life is a forfeitable right.
 

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Those are merely your favorites? How about the "right to vote" and do we deny it to Juan Carlos Lopez-Casteneda?

I believe that anyone can make it as complex as they'd like but in the end it's really as simple as "The only limitiation on ones rights is the equal rights of others". If any of the rights you listed are qualified with that quote, I'm not affraid of PorI. Also, as a side note, PorI is applied to "citizens" if I'm not mistaken.

I realize we don't see eye to eye. That's because you're a "paleo-conservative":cool: and I'm a Libertarian.
 

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Must remember we are only a heartbeat away from this vote going 5-4 against. As long as anti-gun prez is in office we can count on more anti-gun Justices (like Kagen).
 

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The thing to remember is that even if we assume Kagan is anti gun, she is replacing a justice that is anti gun so there is no change in the 5-4 vote.

I'm not saying we should accept her, just saying we would be no worse off.
 

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So this decision basically means, all these stupid gun laws are unconstitutional and now unenforceable right???

It means many of them will now be challenged and most likely open the door to getting some of them repealed.
The challenges will most likely be successful, hopefully starting with the GFSZ suit.
 
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