Constitutional Law

Bob Cottrol on McDonald

at SCOTUSBlog. Very much to the point. A sample:

The opinions in McDonald are rich in ironies. We have conservative justices authoring opinions which squarely confront the tragic legacy of race and its impact on American Constitutional history, while we have liberal justices wanting to largely skip over that history. We have on the other hand liberal justices pleading for states? rights and federalism while conservative justices make the case for the soundness of incorporating the Bill of Rights as a matter of original intent. The Court got it right in McDonald but how it came to do so will fascinate students and commentators for some time to come.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).