2nd Amendment
The 2nd Amendment in the 8th Circuit
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Justice Scalia’s highly controvercial majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller was prominent in a recent decision of the 8th Circuit, called US v. Fincher.
Hollis Wayne Fincher, the defendant in the 8th Circuit case, had been convicted of being wrongfully in possession of a machine gun and a sawed-off shotgun. Mr. Fincher argued that, [...]
Supreme Court Gun Case
Friday, June 27th, 2008Today Justice Scalia wrote a scholarly and persuasive majority opinion in one of the most widely-anticipated decisions of the current term. (This stands in stark contrast to his bizarre, fascist dissent in the recent Guantanamo case.)
I agree with both the reasoning and the result. Here’s a link to the decision and the dissent . The [...]