Showdown - Pejman Yousefzadeh on

Showdown - Pejman Yousefzadeh on the upcoming showdown between the Fifth and Ninth US Circuits on the Second Amendment, and the role Blogs have played in this dispute so far.

Thus, once again, it appears that Judge Reinhardt did not allow the historical facts so important to a correct ruling on the Second Amendment to get in the way of his zeal to argue that the Second Amendment confers a collective, not an individual right.

In writing about the ruling, Professor Volokh stated that he found it "disappointing." Considering how many aspects of Second Amendment law and scholarship Judge Reinhardt got wrong, characterizing the opinion as "disappointing" would perhaps constitute a monumental understatement.

We'll be watching this one closely.

Posted by Mitch at December 12, 2002 07:53 PM