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SECOND AMENDMENT SHOWDOWN

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

The Supreme Court is scheduled to resolve a conundrum they haven?t addressed in over sixty years: How can they look at themselves in the mirror every morning having voted to stop the re-count in Florida in 2000?No, seriously: just what does the second amendment mean and what does it protect??A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear high powered semi-automatic weapons shall not be infringed.? Or something like that.Here is the question on Nino Scalia?s mind: ?Its Monday, are they serving baked chicken again in the Cafeteria??The reason Judge Scalia is worried about what he eats is that as a self proclaimed ?semi-strict constructionist? his judicial philosophy might well lead him to a result his conservative friends will abhor and will give him heartburn...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on January 15, 2008 (boomark / email).