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• Young Peoples Constitutional Right to Drink and Vote

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 475
       In my day, college kids could drink but not vote.  Now they can vote  but not drink.  What gives?      There was once a time-honored American tradition of drinking and voting.  Candidates would "likker up" their supporters and festive mobs would parade to the polls on election day, taking over the ...
  6 days ago

• Does the Second Amendment Apply in Chicago? Understanding the stakes in the Supreme Courts next…

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Last year’s landmark Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller definitively settled the fact that the Second Amendment secures an individual right—not a collective one—to keep and bear arms. Yet that ruling applied only to the federal government (which oversees Washington, D.C.). Does the Second ...
  1 week ago

• Replying to the Naysayers

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 118
  An organization called the Arms Keepers wrote a brief in the McDonald case.  In it, they argue for an odd model of "selective" incorporation through the Privileges and Immunities (PorI) clause, while strangely insisting that Slaughterhouse can (and possibly should) be preserved.They were just formed this year, and ...
  1 week ago

• VeriChip’s Merger With Credit Monitoring Firm Worries Privacy Activists

  
  goldiron — Authority: 143
  Source: WiredRemember VeriChip, the Florida company that once dreamed of injecting its human-implantable RFID microchips in everyone from immigrant guest workers to prison inmates?We haven’t heard much from the company since a dipping stock price nearly got it delisted from the NASDAQ in March. But it’s still ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dumb As A Rock (And Not Nearly As Cute As One) Barbara Boxer Speaks

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 462
  Day in and day out I continue to find examples that prove liberals are completely unhinged from reality. And this day is certainly no different as one of our favorite barking moonbats, Senator Barbara Boxer, has opened her pie hole and once again removed all doubt as the saying goes. Ms. Boxer, a virulent proponent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bad driving may have genetic basis, UCI study finds

  
  goldiron — Authority: 143
  Bad driving may have genetic basis, UCI study findsPeople with gene variant perform more than 20 percent worse on driving testIrvine, Calif., Oct. 28, 2009 – Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.People with a particular gene variant performed more than ...
  2 weeks ago

• 14th Amendment article by prof. Aynes

  
  Of Arms and the Law — Authority: 518
  Just got the hardcopy, and the pdf version , online. He specifically reaches the right to arms on pp. 1319-20,
  2 weeks ago

• Still a Ron Paul Fan?

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 118
  I wrote briefly about the Congressional amicus curiae brief [pdf] in support of the petitioners in McDonald v. Chicago when it was submitted.  We saw a great deal of support from both sides of the political spectrum, but one signature was notable for its glaring omission: Ron Paul.Id been wondering about that, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• New York’s First Guantanamo Trial – Defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Seeks Dismissal of Charges on Constitutional Grounds

  
  Massachusetts Conservative Feminist | Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity — Authority: 125
  Ghailani Invokes Constitution once on U.S. Soil - image Time Online Ahmed Kalfan Ghailani, the first defendant from Guantanamo to be tried in New York is seeking a dismissal of all charges based on the U.S. Constitution. Ghailani, held in Guantanamo for his help in plotting attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi and ...
  3 weeks ago

• NAACP v. Civil Rights

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 118
  All of the current amicus curiae briefs in McDonald v. Chicago are now posted on Alan Guras site.The NAACP has submitted theirs, and its one that really bothers me.They argue against revisiting the Privileges or Immunities clause at all, claiming,The Court should turn to the largely unexplored Privileges or Immunities ...
  4 weeks ago

• McDonald v. Chicago: Last Briefs

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 118
  As the day winds down and my body starts rejecting the caffeine, we have two final briefs coming across the wires.The first is filed by a group including 34 California District Attorneys, 8 Nevada District Attorneys, the California Rifle & Pistol Association Foundation, the Long Beach Police Officers Association, ...
  4 weeks ago

• McDonald v. Chicago: Institute for Justice Brief

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 118
  The Institute for Justice has submitted an amicus curiae brief [pdf] in support of petitioners.  Their thrust of their brief is that the 14th Amendment was meant to give teeth to the antislavery protections of the 13th, and that the marginalization of the 14th allowed "constructive servitude" to exist.  They ask ...
  4 weeks ago

• McDonald v. Chicago: Congressional Brief

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 118
  Ill post locations throughout the day as the amicus curiae briefs are posted.  Its a lot to absorb in a short time, so Ill just be posting links for now.The Congressional brief is here.  Id like to thank Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson for signing onto it.  57 Senators (19 Democrats) and 257 Representatives ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nordyke Brief Up

  
  LonelyMachines — Authority: 118
  The appellants from Nordyke v. King have filed an amicus curiae brief [pdf] in support of McDonald v. Chicago.My notes from the original verdict are here.  As expected, the decision at hand created a circuit split.  An order was filed to remand the verdict for a rehearing by the full 9th Circuit, who decided to [...]
  4 weeks ago

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