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If anyone is entitled to a settlement amount, it's the citizens of D.C. who were punished due to the gun ban. since there is no accurate way to figure out exactly who was ACTUALLY punished by this ban, I believe that they should be forced to take the money and buy one XD for every home in D.C.
as far as the lawyers go, they should be entitled to whatever fee was decided upon at the beginning of the proceedings.
and as for the treason for unconstitutional laws:
every elected official is required to swear an oath to uphold and defend the constitution. if not treason, they should still be held liable in some criminal way for passing a knowingly unconstitutional law.
If you ask me, it would be a much better system if, instead of waiting for an unconstitutionallaw to be passed, waiting for someone to complain, waiting for a court date, etc. If SCOTUS's job was simply to review each law before it was presented on the floor, and signing of on the constitutionality of it THEN, which is what I imagine the founders probably had in mind in the first place.
one interesting thing to note, is in the fact that the constitution doesn't give the state this role of supreme law, interpeter of the constitution, instead that power was granted to SCOTUS by... SCOTUS.
the founders should have been a little bit more specific in their description of teh role of SCOTUS
Citizen, don't say to me what I know you are going to say to me.