Quote of the Day – How Not To Win Edition
Occasionally this blog is about guns. This is one of those occasions. This quote is from the transcript of this morning’s Supreme Court hearings on the McDonald v. Chicago case, AKA the Chicago Gun Case. James A. Feldman, Esq. represented the City of Chicago.
JUSTICE KENNEDY: Without repeating that and just so I understand your position, how could some member of the Court write the — this opinion to say that this right is not fundamental, but that Heller was correct?
MR. FELDMAN: I — the Court would just say that what Heller held was if you look at the meanings that the words in the Second Amendment had, the common meaning — as the Court said in the Heller opinion -the common meanings that the word had in 1791, it imposed limitation on the State. It took a preexisting right that had not been — was not codified in the Constitution, and it said, this self-defense right we need in the Constitution in order — in order to protect the militia against being disarmed by the Federal Government.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: That sounds an awful lot to me like the argument we heard in Heller on the losing side.
March 3rd, 2010 at 05:22
And that was the sound of an incompetent lawyer having his nether regions handed to him on a silver platter by a Supreme Court Justice. Talk about being unprepared for your given task…