Petitioner's brief filed in McDonald v. Chicago

[hoffmang]

The Petitioner's brief for Incorporation of the Second Amendment was filed today in the Supreme Court.

http://www.chicagoguncase.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/08-1521ts.pdf

-Gene

[RP1911]

Indeed, southern courts also denied Congress’s
authority to establish federal citizenship. Mississippi’s
Chief Justice held the Civil Rights Act
unconstitutional in upholding the conviction of black
Union veteran James Lewis for carrying a gun,
reasoning that only states could establish
citizenship—to which Lewis was not entitled.
Decision of Chief Justice Handy, Declaring the Civil
Rights Bill Unconstitutional, N.Y. TIMES, Oct. 26,
1866, at 2, col. 2.

The New York Times retorted:
The Constitution of the United States . . .
provides that “the right of the people to keep
and bear arms shall not be infringed.” But
this restriction is . . . a restriction upon the
power of the United States alone, and gave
to James Lewis no protection against the law
of Mississippi, which deprived him, because
of his color, of a right which every white man
possessed.

Nice!

[freonr22]

Thank you!

[IrishPirate]

damn, a 91 page "brief"! Hopefully these guys will win their case, subsequently winning for all of us the RKBA. I can just imagine all the law suits that are going to flood the CA courts and the 9th circuit if this passes!!

[ilbob]

damn, a 91 page "brief"! Hopefully these guys will win their case, subsequently winning for all of us the RKBA. I can just imagine all the law suits that are going to flood the CA courts and the 9th circuit if this passes!!

yea. me too. hoepfully most of them won't be ones that lead to bad case law.

[Stubby]

Brilliant, Absolutely brilliant

[navyinrwanda]

Another tour de force of legal scholarship.

And Alan Gura's only 38 years old! This is a landmark career in the making.

[Jarhead4]

Nice!

[Toolbox X]

The Petitioner's brief for Incorporation of the Second Amendment was filed today in the Supreme Court.

To clarify for those dummies like me out there, this is what SCOTUS reads and decides if they will hear, correct?

[RP1911]

If I have this correctly,

SOTUS has decided to hear. These are the supporting arguments for incorporation. The opposition will file their's and the justices will do their due diligence and be ready for oral arguments.

[Maltese Falcon]

...I wish I could be there in person for the beginning of arguments. This will be an epic case.

[hoffmang]

SCOTUS has taken this case. This is the opening brief from our side. Chicago responds December 30. We reply January 29 and oral arguments will occur sometime in February.

Amicus for our side are due next week, so there will be a lot more to read shortly.

This is a heavy, history making brief.

-Gene

[Kharn]

I thought it was a very informative read on how bad SlaughterHouse has been for this country, the vast majority of the argument was for P&I revitalization instead of rehashing Heller. It was also nice to see almost every quote about guns from the 1800s including 'bear'.

[Fjold]

How ironic. Let the Libs defend Slaughterhouse and hang by their contradictions.

[Paul E]

Wow, Great stuff. A history lesson in and of itself, and an excellent argument on top of it!