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Big day for guns (and other fun?) at SCOTUS

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in a bunch of major press piece linked here at How Appealing, the Supreme Court today will hear oral argument in McDonald v. Chicago, another potential landmark Second Amendment case that will determine if the Court's 2008 ruling in Heller extends to the states.  In addition, I think the Court is likely to release some opinions this morning, and before long they will have to start handing down rulings in the bigger criminal justice cases that were argued last Fall. Though there so many aspects of the McDonald oral argument to follow, I will be especially interested to see if gun rights for the disfavored (e.g., anyone with a criminal record) gets any mention at all.  I also will be interested to see how the Heller dissenters engage (or seek to disengage) with the individual constitutional right recognized in Heller...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 02, 2010 (boomark / email).