BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

• After a couple of atypical decisions the SCOTUS is right back on BushTrack with a decision that ignores the language of the Second Amendment - a No-No for these so-called “strict constructionists”, but then there’s nothing new about them going against their own supposed “legal philosophy” when an ultraconservative ideology needs to be confirmed - in order to affirm the right of every American to blow away his neighbor with an Uzi provided, of course, that said American can afford to buy one. (I’m waiting for the Court to order the govt to provide vouchers for Glocks so the poor can protect themselves from predators.) Fact-esque
• With it’s decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively took the gun issue out of the fall campaign. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire
• Unfortunately, Scalia is in the grips of an unusually limited form of originalism, unlike Randy Barnett’s (and Jack’s) far more sophisticated variety, and he is unwilling to recognize the legitimacy of judicially enforceable “fundamental values” (such as self-defense and the concomitant right to possess firearms in the home that are useful for self-defense). Balkinization
• Because of this Court decision, proposals such as Brady background checks on all gun sales, limiting bulk sales of handguns, restricting access to military-style assault weapons, and strengthening the power of law enforcement to shut down corrupt gun dealers can now be debated on their merits without them being seen as a “first step on the road to gun confiscation.” Paul Helmke/Huffington Post
• Had I spent more time diagraming sentences, then maybe I could make sense of the recent Supreme Court ruling on D.C.’s gun ban. Republic of T
• If words could be tortured, Supreme Court Antonin Scalia would be their Torquemada. For, indeed, Scalia can take the most obvious of phrases or words and place those poor bastards on the rack until their intestines are straightened, shove a red-hot poker up their asses until he can brand “Big Tony” on their colons, and give them a particularly nasty titty-twisting, and, by fuckin’ God, those words are gonna give up whatever their obvious and relevant definitions are and let Scalia say what they “really” mean. The Rude Pundit
• For his part, John McCain supported efforts in 2000 to close the gun show loophole. But in his quest for the presidency, McCain signed onto a brief challenging D.C.’s gun ban. Think Progress
• In knocking down the District of Columbia’s 32-year ban on handgun possession, the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court have shown again their willingness to abandon precedent in order to do whatever is necessary to further the agenda of the contemporary political right. truthdig
• They’ve been talking about it for a while, but the ACTIVIST judges of the Supreme Court today struck down Washington, D.C.’s ban on handgun ownership, voting along Ideological Lines. Wonkette

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