Posted by Ilya Shapiro on June 29, 2010
By Ilya Shapiro
I still haven’t finished reading the full 214-page opinion, but a few points to add to the statement I made yesterday:
Justice Alito’s plurality opinion, joined by the Chief Justice and Justices Scalia and Kennedy, is a tight 45-page discussion of the history of the right to keep and bear arms and how it relates to [...]
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Tags: alito, breyer, General, Law and Civil Liberties, mcdonald v chicago, pandora, Privileges or Immunities, second amendment, Stevens, thomas | 
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Posted by Ilya Shapiro on June 18, 2010
By Ilya Shapiro
Yesterday I blogged about the Florida property rights case, which I now consider the best unanimous opinion against my position I could ever imagine. Although the property owners lost, four justices stood for the idea that courts no less than legislatures or executive bodies are capable of violating the Takings Clause (Fifth Amendment), while two others endorsed [...]
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Tags: Anthony Kennedy, breyer, Fifth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Law and Civil Liberties, pandora's box, Privileges or Immunities, Scalia, substantive due process, takings | No Comments »
