Sentences with phrase «gun rights case»

The Court has accepted quite a number of cases that may force it to address big questions, including the Appointments Clause (Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB), regulatory takings (Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida DEP), and the Commerce Clause (Comstock), and that's not even counting the reargument in Citizens United or the prospect of another gun rights case.

A judge in Washington said today he wants the three law firms that provided pro bono service to the District of Columbia in the landmark gun rights case to open up their books to provide billing data to the court.

Veteran Supreme Court advocate Alan Morrison has been fired and apparently won't be arguing on behalf of the District of Columbia this spring in the pivotal Second Amendment gun rights case D.C. V. Heller.

Referring to the gun rights case Heller v. District of Columbia, Toobin writes that both «Scalia and Obama endorsed a Second Amendment that protected individual rights to own handguns but with limitations on more dangerous weapons [such as machine guns].

This statement was written in the context of a gun rights case, but it seems to us that it's also relevant to another issue: laboratory safety.

Eric Holder was asked about a recent Supreme Court gun rights case during his confirmation hearing Thursday.

Not exact matches

In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as well.

«Since the Heller case, the next great question for the Supreme Court to decide was whether there is a right to carry guns in public,» Winkler told the AP.

The last two high court cases to deal with gun control took place more than two years ago and both upheld the right to carry arms, according to The New York Times.

Gun - rights organizations also weighed in, including the National Rifle Association, which argued that the case stood to «eviscerate» the gun companies» legal protections.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

I surprised she didn't suggest that «god» gave them Trig so there would be another male around in case they needed to protect their gun rights and form a militia.

In case of someone wishing to argue for gun rights, possible approaches would be:

The big gun control case that went to the supreme court, Columbia vs Heller in 2008 actually came down on the side of the right with a (not unusual for the supreme court), 5/4 decision along party lines.

This case has attracted the attention of virtually every major gun control and gun rights organization in the nation, many of which have filed briefs either in support of or against the original suit filed by the New York State Rife & Pistol Association.

«This case validates a simple, fundamental truth about gun control: that it is possible to have strong laws that keep our communities safe, while at the same time respecting the rights of law - abiding gun owners.»

Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch said he has «offered no promises on how I'd rule to anyone on any case,» but also refused to say how he would rule on many issues, including abortion, gun rights and the travel ban.

Thornton said she understood and supported people's right to have guns for the protection of their homes and families, but she believed the sheriff's statement could be construed as encouraging people to get involved in cases in which they might as easily become victims.

In a discussion I had recently about gun rights, someone brought up a United States Supreme Court case in which it was determined that an individual could become disqualified from particular rights.

Another piece in the Washington Post about the N.R.A.'s evolution from sportsmen's club to gun - rights lobby says «The NRA learned that controversy isn't a problem but rather, in many cases, a solution, a motivator, a recruitment tool, an inspiration.»

Whether that actually a good thing or more of a Trojan Horse to smuggle in more hyper macho battle scenes and slow motion sequences of giant mortar shell casings falling to the ground (because big guns are so awesome, guys, right?)

Elsewhere, Theaster Gates's In Case of Race Riot II (2011), a fireman's hose coiled and framed in a wooden box, evokes the high - pressure water guns historically used to suppress civil rights protests; Kara Walker's deceptively playful cutouts tell narratives of the cruel racial dynamics and oppressive stereotypes of the antebellum South; and Titus Kaphar's chilling duo of paintings in The Jerome Project (My Loss)(2014) show the monumental, detailed face of a black man disappearing behind a rising glut of thick black paint.

While we have been focused on Mr. Zimmerman's legal defense, we acknowledge that the public interest in this matter revolves around racial tensions, gun rights, media's treatment of people involved in this case, and various other considerations.

In this kind of case, the state interest in the felony gun ban is not sufficiently compelling to trump the individual's constitutional right.

Though Berman doesn't believe that a Supreme Court decision recognizing a Second Amendment right to possess firearms would invalidate the federal felon gun possession law, he does foresee that it could lead to litigation in marginal cases — e.g. where an individual convicted of a non-serious felony might want to possess a handgun in the home.

Looks like the liberals who support gun rights as well as all others may have a good chance to make their case before the Supreme Court.

«A Bill of Rights battle: A Chicago case is about more than gun control; it's about freedoms that all Americans enjoy.»

Attorneys devoted their time to gun control cases, voter identification laws, free speech issues, abortion rights and same - sex marriage cases.