Peruta: Update - Clement enters

[hoffmang]

In the last two days, there has been an interesting development. Yesterday, former SG Paul Clement substituted into Peruta (and off of the NRA Amicus if you will.) Today he filed a letter pointing out the impact of AB-144 on the lower court's reasoning.

-Gene

[safewaysecurity]

Clement is a very smart guy. I heard him in the Heller Orals and it was impressive to say the least.

[taperxz]

CGF is full of fun news today

[Barabas]

In brief: Please don't send this back to the District Court.

[Gray Peterson]

I find this interesting, considering earlier reported comments by Chuck Michel about asking for a remand...Sean and Chris can slap me if I read these reports wrong or the media skewered the meaning...

[wash]

I thought he was the "machine guns" guy at Heller.

He was better at McDonald but still I prefer Alan Gura.

Is this move going to make it harder for the Judge to pull some lame excuse out of their posterior?

I thought the original council was doing an adequate job, why is someone pulling these strings?

[safewaysecurity]

I thought he was the "machine guns" guy at Heller.

He was better at McDonald but still I prefer Alan Gura.

Is this move going to make it harder for the Judge to pull some lame excuse out of their posterior?

I thought the original council was doing an adequate job, why is someone pulling these strings?

Yup he is the machine guns guy. I think he's correct in that regard. I don't like that Gura said the right does not protect "machine guns".

[Tier One Arms]

I agree, the right absolutely protects machine guns, and I would go even farther than that...

[G60]

Gura said what he needed to say to win.

[Ubermcoupe]

the district court placed great emphasis upon its determination that California law does not “restrict[] the open carry of unloaded firearms and ammunition ready for instant loading,"

It does now!

[The Shadow]

I'm getting that warm fuzzy feeling.

[chief003]

Does this mean that the NRA or some other (important) party thinks this case has significant implications beyond California?

[HowardW56]

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the county council received that notice....

[Connor P Price]

Does this mean that the NRA or some other (important) party thinks this case has significant implications beyond California?

It most certainly does have broader implications than just CA.

This is pretty interesting, the .gov has backed itself into quite a corner in Peruta. I've got to imagine that they are beginning to see the writing on the wall here.

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[dantodd]

Gura isn't an option since this is an "NRA case" now. I don't think BRA would have put Clement on the case if they thought this wasn't a winner at this point. They provably wouldn't have put him on the case if they thought it would flat out win in district or even circuit. My guess is they expect it to win but not until getting to SCOTUS.

Will be interesting to see if they support sharing Oral's at SCOTUS with Alan if Richards is "related" since that's what happened with McDonald.