District of Columbia v. Heller - a bit of background
Wonderful
commentary in the Wall Street Journal regarding the lawyer who argued for Dick Heller in the Supreme Court case:
How a Young Lawyer Saved the Second Amendment
For decades the Second Amendment might as well have been called the Second-Class Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court spent the late 20th century expansively interpreting the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth amendments, not to mention unenumerated rights ranging from travel to sexual privacy. But not until last month did the court hold that the Second Amendment means what it says: that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
What took so long? I put the question to Alan Gura, the 37-year-old wunderkind lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in District of Columbia v. Heller.
A fascinating read on many levels...
Posted by DaveH at July 20, 2008 12:57 PM
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