Judiciary

Supreme Court Will Hear DC Gun Ban Cases

November 20, 2007

10:49 a.m. PT: Back in 1976, the Council of the District of Columbia thought it would be a good idea to ban the sale of handguns and require shotgun and rifle owners to keep these firearms disassembled. The council thought the ban would cut violent crime rates. Wrong, wrong, wrong. In fact, violent crime, particularly [...]

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Before the Supreme Court (Maybe): Gun Ban Cases

October 5, 2007

Tuesday, November 20: The Supreme Court has decided to hear the DC gun ban cases. Tuesday, November 13: Did you land here from a Google search? No word from the Supreme Court yet on whether it will take up the gun ban cases. Check this space for updates. While you’re here, visit the front page. [...]

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Before the Supreme Court: Voter ID Case

October 3, 2007

Monday, April 28, 2008: The Supreme Court upholds Indiana’s voting law. ————————————————————————————— The Supreme Court began its new term on October 1. One of the cases on the docket is an Indiana voter identification case. Earlier this year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Circuit) upheld an Indiana state law [...]

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Bible-Quoting Jurors

September 11, 2007

I wanted to bring to your attention a case that probably won’t get much play in the blogosphere. Everybody’s too busy blogging about General David Petraeus’s testimony before Congress, a fake Fred Thompson site linked to Mitt Romney, and other topics I’m thoroughly not interested in. Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth [...]

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DC Gun Ban Update

July 25, 2007

Several months ago, the D.C. Circuit ruled D.C.’s hilariously ineffective handgun ban unconstitutional. Last week, D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty said the city government will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. I hope the court refuses to hear it. If I’m still in D.C. when the gun ban is lifted, I plan to buy one. Or [...]

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Debates, Comical and Sublime

June 28, 2007

Friday, June 29: Ego-related update — An attractive black reporter for Newsweek introduced himself to me last night, having recognized me from the bio page photo. It’s good to be reminded that not every black liberal hates me. Have a restful weekend. ——————————————— 6/28 & 12:39 a.m.: Just a couple of notes before I crash. [...]

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States’ Rights and the Constitution

June 25, 2007

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution is reminding me of what our government was conceived to be. What law students learn as “constitutional law” is merely a series of Supreme Court (which effectively usurped power from the states and blurred the line separating powers) decisions and little or no review of English and colonial [...]

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Last Days for DC’s Gun Ban?

May 9, 2007

If I wanted to get my hot little hands on a gun ASAP and stay within the law, I could always move back to South Carolina. Although I have other ways of protecting myself from would-be attackers (lethal ways, so don’t get any ideas, thugs), carrying a gun would make me feel even safer. And [...]

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Jim Crow and Jailhouse Law

March 28, 2007

*** Scroll down for updates *** Isn’t this…unconstitutional? I mean, separating prisoners by race? Doesn’t that violate a clause about treating people equally without regard to race, or some such? In cotton-comes-to-Harlem fashion, the California-style black-hispanic race war isn’t confined to California. It’s occurring wherever there are significant enough numbers of blacks and hispanics fighting [...]

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DC Gun Ban Law Declared Unconstitutional

March 9, 2007

Monday, March 12: A law-abiding black man with a gun. I like… ———————————————————————– A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (commonly called the D.C. Circuit) today declared D.C.’s stunningly stupid, misguided, and ineffectual 30-year-old gun ban unconstitutional. (via How Appealing and Instapundit) Download a PDF copy of the [...]

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Dred Scott and the ‘Legacy of Slavery’

March 6, 2007

Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the citizen? On this [...]

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Supreme Court to Race Preference Proponents: Scram!

January 25, 2007

Tuesday, January 30: This post is closed to commenting. Continue the discussion at Has “White Guilt” Run Its Course? Update II: Affirmative action for pastors? Update: Commenter Michael Burrow writes: “If we want to keep AA [t]hen it should go full circle. I want to see the rough percentages of our population on all the [...]

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Race-Based School Assignment Cases Before the Supreme Court

December 5, 2006

Update II (12/6): James Taranto on How “Integration” Became Discrimination, SCOTUS blog… ——————————————– My latest Washington Examiner column is about the two race-based school assignment cases currently before the Supreme Court. White parents in Seattle and Jefferson County, Kentucky, sued the school districts for assigning students to schools based on race, a policy they claimed [...]

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Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Ban Upheld in California

October 6, 2006

Acknowledging that courts interpret law, not write it, the Court of Appeal in California voted 2-1 yesterday to uphold the state’s ban on homosexual “marriage.” Presiding Justice William McGuiness wrote (emphasis added): We conclude California’s historical definition of marriage does not deprive individuals of a vested fundamental right or discriminate against a suspect class…The time [...]

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Loving v. Virginia: Legalizing Interracial Marriage

June 12, 2006

We usually don’t commemorate the 39th anniversary of an event, but today is an exception. Because of the recent proposal to amend the Constitution to ban homosexual “marriage,” which failed to gain traction, I believe it’s important to blog about Loving v. Virginia and distinguish between laws criminalizing marriage between a man and woman of [...]

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