In the wake of Friday’s school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, much of the coverage of the Court focused on the Court and gun control.
At Constitution Daily, Lyle Denniston argues that, “[i]f Americans are persuaded that the courts are getting the Second Amendment wrong, and are convinced that cutting back on the Amendment’s scope is a way to reduce gun violence, they have it within their political power to demand that legislatures apply that Amendment sparingly, and they have it within their citizen power to try to get the Constitution amended.” And at Think Progress, Ian Millhiser argues that “[t]ntil the Supreme Court removes the special protections accorded to handguns . . . lawmakers will have to fight the most dangerous weapon in the nation with one arm tied behind their backs.”
Elsewhere, at Jost on Justice, Ken Jost discusses a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (which Marissa covered in yesterday’s round-up) striking down an Illinois law which banned the carrying of concealed weapons in public. “The issue,” predicts Jost, “is headed, inexorably, toward the Supreme Court.” Ariane de Vogue of ABC News and Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal also have coverage of the Seventh Circuit’s decision, while the editorial board of The New York Times emphasizes that when “‘gun violence is a serious problem,’ as Justice Scalia said it is in the United States, the courts must be very cautious about extending the individual right to own a gun.”
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