{"id":1958,"date":"2008-01-14T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2008-01-14T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T10:14:08","slug":"anyone-up-for-reading-some-legal-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Up For Reading Some Legal Briefs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnathan Adler, writing at Volokh, writes about the Solicitor General&#8217;s brief <em>against <\/em>the <em>Heller <\/em>case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Solicitor General&#8217;s office has filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/us-heller-brief-1-11-08.pdf\">brief<\/a> in <em>D.C. v. Heller<\/em> supporting an individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment, but nonetheless calling for a remand in the case because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit applied too high a level of scrutiny in the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Im the meantime David Kopel &#8211; perhaps the best Second-Amendment issues writer in the business &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2008_01_13-2008_01_19.shtml#1200292558\">writes about the various <em>amicus <\/em>briefs re the <em>Heller <\/em>case<\/a> (the revisit of the DC gun ban):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the Comments below, there will be some people who want to engage in a troll-driven debate over the gun issue in general, and others who will want to criticize or praise the Bush administration for the SG brief. However, I encourage readers instead to read one of more of the amicus briefs in toto, and to offer thoughtful comments on the brief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take &#8217;em to be beach with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnathan Adler, writing at Volokh, writes about the Solicitor General&#8217;s brief against the Heller case: the Solicitor General&#8217;s office has filed a brief in D.C. v. Heller supporting an individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment, but nonetheless calling for a remand in the case because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}