How about ” Heller on little red wheels” ?

“The right of the Executive Branch of each of the several states to maintain an armed, well-regulated militia shall not be infringed.”

But wait. That’s not what they wrote. And if that’s what they had meant, then that’s what they would have said. Or something to that effect.

“… the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

The people. That’s us. The people. That’s what they said. And with or without the “well-regulated militia” part, that’s what they meant.

You need not read anything other than the Constitution itself and perhaps the Declaration of Independence. In trying to form a Nation of laws, it seems as though they attempted to consider every conceivable way in which a government could screw its citizenry (based on their own experiences) and then tried to provide some protection against it. Three branches of government and all the checks and balances therein. Freedom of speech. The non-establishment of an official relegion. The right to peacefully assemble. The right to keep and bear arms. The right to due process… your day in court with the proceedings governed by a known and published set of rules. Protection from unreasonable search and seizure. The right to a trial. The right to counsel. The right to see the evidence against you. Etc.

Then there’s the whole Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness thing.

The founding documents affirm, among other things, each individual’s right to defend him/herself against a government or person who seeks to do them harm. No right can be taken away without due process.

Two amendments seem to be relevent in Heller. Certainly the Second Amendment affirming (not granting… affirming) the right to keep and bear arms. But also the Fourth Amendment affirming the right to be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects.

Seems to me like the D.C. gun ban infringes upon both.

One way or another, hopefully the Heller desicion will force both presidential candidates to explain their positions on the private ownership of guns.

Is Heller in a handbasket taken?

What I’m getting at is it possible that the people of the black robe are already on their way out of town when the heller hits the rotary air movement device?

This is actually a friend’s exact theory. That, and that Heller is quite arguably the most important decision of the term, so they’re saving the “best” for last.

Either that or they’re totally just screwing with us.

As far as I know, its just released to the public. There is no formal setting at the SCOTUS building or anything like that.

I should have been more specific. Is it done by the Supreme Beings themselves, or handled by minions? What I’m getting at is it possible that the people of the black robe are already on their way out of town when the heller hits the rotary air movement device? Would that be a partial reason why they wait to release some of the most anticipated ones last?

Can anyone tell me exactly how a opinion is presented?

It ends with “The Aristocrats!” and you really don’t want to know what they do with Ginsburg.

Hopefully the dissent side will be “partisan hacks” and actually the agents of tyranny. But you’re correct, IF they read the 2nd Amendment in plain English (which they should’ve learned by junior high, and in its obvious historical context, it’s a no-brainer RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE and ALL Federal gun laws infringing on said RIGHT are null and void.

Even a “favorable ruling” probably won’t be to that lawful extent.

Even a cursory review of the Amendment itself and the Federalist Papers gives the patently obvious answer. Any Justice on the dissent side is simply identifying themselves as a partisan hack to be dismissed with a wave of the hand and forever after banished to the realm of ridicule and derision.

Can anyone tell me exactly how a opinion is presented? I assume Roberts doesn’t just come out to the courthouse steps and start handing out press kits.

As far as I know, its just released to the public. There is no formal setting at the SCOTUS building or anything like that.

I teared up when Ol’ Yeller got his lead pill for “hydraphobie”… I was about 6 yrs old I think….that movie came out back around ‘57 and I saw it in one of the movie places down on Church St. in Nashville.

That movie starred Fess Parker and one of my gunner boyhood heroes, Chuck Connors aka “Lucas McCain, the Rifleman”, who carried that fancy modified Winchester .44-40. ….and Tommy Kirk I think his name was, who played in some of the Disney flicks back then. I believe he had to administer Ol’ Yeller’s lead pill.

Actually, given it’s a case about guns, I’m suprised no one has made the obvious Old Yeller reference yet.

Old Heller, by Robb

Is the public invited to watch? What’s the deal here? I’ve just read about a bazillion news stories and I still haven’t a clue.