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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Courts - More on the Heller 2nd Amendment decision today

Here, thanks again to SCOTUSBlog, is the 157-page opinion.

Tony Mauro of Legal Times has a post that begins:

Supreme Court: Scalia and Stevens Duke It Out

It was an extraordinary 23-minute-long scene at the Supreme Court this morning as Justice Antonin Scalia read from his majority opinion in D.C. v. Heller and then Justice John Paul Stevens read from his unusually pointed dissent. Both cast aspersions on each other's interpretation of the Second Amendment and relevant precedents, and spectators were left with a lot of reading to do to determine what the justices actually decided. The Court had clearly declared an individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment; Scalia said it could be limited, even rattling off the kinds of regulations that might be acceptable. But Stevens, in dissent, seemed to say that the majority's ruling was broader than Scalia was making it out to be.

"Do not accept the summary you have just heard," Stevens said at one point. Earlier, Scalia told spectators they had to slog through 154 pages of opinions to really understand the Court's position.

Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSBlog has a useful entry headed "My Sense of the Bottom-Line from Heller."

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Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 26, 2008 12:36 PM
Posted to Courts in general