Sunday, July 12, 2009

Sotomayor And The Second Amendment

Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor recently held that the Constitution does not protect the right to keep and bear arms against infringement by state and local governments. Her defenders maintain that she was merely applying settled precedent, which only the Supreme Court itself is authorized to reconsider. This is a half truth that conceals more than it reveals.

Read all of Nelson Lund's commentary at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/.

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