Constitutional Law
Mar. 3, 2010
Taking Aim at a Privileged Precedent
Today, the Supreme Court will hear McDonald v. Chicago and decide if it will overturn the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases, writes Joerg Knipprath of Southwestern Law School.
By Joerg Knipprath
Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear McDonald v. Chicago, a case that challenges Chicago's private handgun possession ban. The case presents the question avoided in 2008's D.C. v. Heller, whether the Second Amendment's protection of an individual right to own guns for, among other purposes, personal defense applies to states and municipalities. The National Rifle Association is focusing its case on the usual way to apply Bill o...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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