Nifty.

The NYT has a fairly good (and by that, I mean they’re not shitting their pants because guns are involved) piece on Robert Levy and the Heller case: They started by interviewing dozens of potential plaintiffs in Washington. “We wanted gender diversity,” Mr. Levy said. “We wanted racial diversity. We wanted age diversity. We wanted […]

Nylarthotep is nervous. SCOTUS Blog on government and gun rights. Heller for dummies err journalists.

I’ve heard some folks ponder whether DC’s status as, well, not a state will impact the DC Gun Case. The court will address: Whether the following provisions — D.C. Code secs. 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504(a), and 7-2507.02 — violate the Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to […]

Bob Krumm thinks maybe the supreme court will decide another election. Glenn Reynolds has a piece in the NY Post on the case. Fred Thompson discusses Parker/Heller. Rudy, still sporting his recently found pro-gunnyness, on Heller. Joe looks at the reaction from the anti-gunners. They may soon regret the appeal.

Go time: The U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether handguns can be banned in the nation’s capital, a case that could produce its first ruling in nearly 70 years on the right of Americans to bear arms. The nation’s highest court agreed to hear an appeal by officials from the District […]

On the docket for a conference today. Could be tomorrow.

We all yammered on a bit back about what if we lose? Well, what if we win?

Thoughts on the timing and the run up to the elections.

Not today: The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced no action on a new case testing the meaning of the Second Amendment. The next date for possible action on it is likely to be November 26, following a pre-Thanksgiving Conference set for November 20.

So, today the Supreme Court should announce if it will hear the Parker/Heller case. I think they’ll take it but wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t. After all, they’re kinda skittish when it comes to anything controversial. If they don’t take the case, we win. If they do, we still could win. Other thoughts: Bitter […]

Today, the Supreme Court decides whether or not to hear the case. Decision to be announced on Tuesday.

Seen at DCist: We’re still mixed on what would be the better blessing for the District — for the court to grant their appeal or to just turn it down. On the one hand, if the justices voted to take the case, the District would at least have a chance to save its gun laws, […]

Seems DC is a bit spooked and is asking the SCOTUS for only a limited ruling: The District of Columbia government on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to address only a single issue, if it agrees to hear the city’s appeal seeking to reinstate its flat ban on private possession of handguns.  In a reply […]

Looks like SCOTUS shall have a look on November 9. And David Hardy has a link to DC’s reply on cert.

So, one of the conversations that occurred at GBR2 was about the Parker/Heller case. There is some fear that the case may not go our way. My opinion, expressed to the NRA reps, was that it will either go our way (which is good) or it will not, in which case giddy up. Talk about […]

Well, that’s what they may as well have said. Seems that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership tried to get the DC mayor to reform DC’s gun laws instead of pushing the appeal: Helmke, of the Brady Campaign, said the group suggested to Washington that it rework its gun laws rather than press on […]

Looks like the Plaintiffs have filed a response to DC’s cert petition. TP calls it a legal bitch slap.

Seen at GLN: On Friday, the Court is scheduled to hold its first conference of the October 2007 term. Friday is also the deadline for District of Columbia gun rights advocates to file its brief its opposition to the petition for certiorari in District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), which seeks to revive the city […]

Robert Levy has a good preview of the case.

Seems the court has denied the motion to end the stay that’s enforcing DC’s storage laws for long guns. More here. And the order is here.

RNS notes DC’s screw up: he’s taking advantage of DC’s attorneys’ foulup to get the district court to immediately allow DC residents to possess long guns.

Kopel on Significant Developments in DC Case on Handgun and Self-Defense Bans notes: It appears that DC has decided that its long-gun self-defense ban is constitutionally indefensible. The most logical inference is that DC (despite statements by the Mayor at press conferences) has concluded that it cannot convince the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment […]

Fenty makes his case for appealing Parker. And leads off with a whopper: The central meaning of the Second Amendment has long been settled in the courts. Err, no. It hasn’t. We currently have a split among the various circuits. More: The last time the Supreme Court directly addressed the provision — which reads, “A […]

Alan Korwin: Activists should be aware that as the “Parker” case heads to appeal at the Supreme Court, it may no longer be the “Parker” case. The pleading for certiorari will be titled “District of Columbia v. Heller” another of the original plaintiffs. Asked why the change was made, an insider with knowledge of the […]

Based on the poll, with 284 votes, seems just over half of you think that the court will take the case, rule there is an individual right subject to reasonable restrictions, and note that DC’s laws are stupid. In second place, legal wrangling and more of the same. And a respectable third is they won’t […]

The WaPo thinks that banning handguns completely and requiring that long guns to be disassembled and otherwise in an unusable state is a reasonable restriction. SCOTUSBlog: Washington, D.C., residents who oppose the city’s strict handgun control law urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to move along, without delay, the city government’s appeal of a federal […]

What’s gonna happen in Parker v. DC? The Supreme Court will not take the case The Supreme Court will and will rule that the second amendment means what it says and we all go buy machine guns The Supreme Court will and will rule there is an individual right but reasonable restrictions are OK but […]

Xrlqy Wrlqy: Yes, a Supreme Court ruling that DC’s total handgun ban and extreme “safe” storage law violate the Second Amendment would indeed apply to the entire country, either immediately after Parker or as soon as a substantially identical case from a state made its way through the courts. But think about it: how many […]

That really frosted their nads. It’s like they already lost, or something. Some responses from the antis: The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership: “The Appeals Court decision striking down the District of Columbia handgun law was a highly questionable example of judicial activism. It ignored longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent, discounted the express language […]