{"id":2279,"date":"2008-03-18T07:28:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T12:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2009-12-23T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:48:56","slug":"democracy-is-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Is In The Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans who care about genuine civil liberties for Americans are watching the Supreme Court today for the Heller <\/em>case arguments.<\/p>\n

Clayton Cramer – one of the best Second Amendment bloggers out there – writes about the line of people waiting<\/a>, sleeping outside the Supreme Court overnight in sleeping bags to try to get seats in the Court:<\/p>\n

I only found one person in line willing to defend DC’s position–and she was a lawyer with Legal Community Against Violence who had written their brief. I had a heck of a time getting her to defend what the Second Amendment did protect. She agreed that it did protect some kind of an individual right–but exactly what, she wasn’t prepared to articulate. She seemed focused primarily on the idea that whatever it protected, the Fourteenth Amendment could not incorporate the Second Amendment against the states–and that DC was not part of the federal government, and therefore the Second Amendment didn’t restrict DC government–only the federal government.<\/p>\n

I sense a monumental victory coming for us when their side can’t come up with an argument better than this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s hoping.<\/p>\n

We won’t know until June, of course – which means three glorious months of parsing oral arguments on the web.<\/p>\n

I can hardly wait.<\/p>\n

That gives us a few months to try to teach Hugh Hewitt about the Amendment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans who care about genuine civil liberties for Americans are watching the Supreme Court today for the Heller case arguments. Clayton Cramer – one of the best Second Amendment bloggers out there – writes about the line of people waiting, sleeping outside the Supreme Court overnight in sleeping bags to try to get seats in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7437,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/7437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}