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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:14 PM Original message |
Sotomayor believes that states can regulate and ban weapons |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. so? |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. So...that's a good thing in my view |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. many civil rights advocates |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Actually its a horrible thing...subtitute abortion for guns and see if you still like the logic |
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cabluedem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
35. Exactly. Federal laws like a new assault weapons ban need to apply to all states. nt |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 09:02 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. So would Heller, and the NYC, Wash DC and Chicago guns bans would be history |
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cabluedem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 11:54 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. People here in CA like the assault weapons ban so it will still be entact. nt |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 12:32 AM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Not if SCOTUS incorporates the 2nd amendment via the 14th |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 02:21 AM Response to Reply #44 |
49. Actually a lot of us do not, and damn Gray Davis, the lying SOB of a State AG for much of it |
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Tigress DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 01:50 AM Response to Reply #21 |
48. I think we are "oversimplifying" the logic. STATES would have rights more to fine tune... |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 02:26 AM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Would you support that for woman's right to choose? |
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Tigress DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 03:14 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. That ISN'T my point. States rights shouldn't VIOLATE Federal law. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 05:50 AM Response to Reply #51 |
52. As my prior post showed, you need to be careful for what you ask for |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. Let the self-proclaimed "states' rights"-ers smoke that. |
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pnutbutr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 06:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
53. yeah |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
4. The second amendment doesn't apply to states? |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. That's the way I see it too |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I don't read it that way. I am not aware of any army or militia that arms itself with nunchucks. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. We're not referring to the nunchuck ruling but to the other one. |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. So what. I agree with that to some extent. State laws concerning firearms vary widely. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #16 |
47. That is the WHOLE POINT. |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 07:00 AM Response to Reply #47 |
55. Not mutually exclusive. Constitution applies to all of us. State laws apply to state residents. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 08:01 AM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Except that pesky thing called the 14th amendment |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 08:55 AM Response to Reply #56 |
59. All states have their own versions of laws around the topics you mention. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 09:16 AM Response to Reply #59 |
62. It is like circles with you. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #62 |
66. Excellent points. The 7th is not incorporation so binding arbitration is included in such things as |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #62 |
70. See the reference link in this post. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. SCOTUS said in Heller, "the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:12 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. But was that comment aimed at the State level, Federal level. or both? |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. SCOTUS made that statement in the context of the 1st, 2nd, 4th Amendments and the 1st & 4th have |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
6. Montana would like that |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
10. Makes sense and states can regulate and ban same-sex marriage and all rights, i.e. the idea that any |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
11. So she would be against the Federal AWB? |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
13. You're supposed to wait til you hit 13,349 posts before starting an inflammatory thread |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Huh? I am praising Sotomayor, and linking to a non-partisan website of experts |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
18. Opinion was pre-Hiller... |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I am praising her decision |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Wrong, the MALONEY case was decided: January 28, 2009 and Heller 26 June 2008. |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:42 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Will the SCOTUS decision you predict make an exception for mentally ill people |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. SCOTUS said in Heller, the following: |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 06:02 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. John Paul Stevens said the SC in Heller "overturned longstanding precedent" |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Sotomayor did not follow a precedent because SCOTUS has not said whether the 2nd like the 1st & 4th |
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pnutbutr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 06:35 AM Response to Reply #27 |
54. the 2nd IMO has nothing to do with the 14th |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 08:29 AM Response to Reply #54 |
58. The bill of rights needs to be tied to the 14 simply because .... |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Stevens and Breyer in their dissents recognized that states acknowledged RKBA was an inalienable |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 05:58 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Very interesting. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
26. This is because there is direct precedent that says that the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to states. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Please read Nordyke v. King the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the Second |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 12:30 AM Response to Reply #28 |
45. The ninth circuit is the most summarily reversed circuit in the nation. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #45 |
64. Don't spew right-wing bullshit. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:46 PM Response to Reply #26 |
39. The 2nd circuit was not thinking outside the box. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 09:04 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Not sure the 2nd Circuit was thinking... |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. lol. I clicked expecting a complicated response. sometimes laughing is good. n/t |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
30. It does say "well-regulated". |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. You do know that SCOTUS dealt with "well-regulated" in Heller, don't you? That puts Sotomayor on the |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:10 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. I don't understand why the "well-regulated" debate is relevant in this ruling |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:12 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. I was replying to #30. I also don't see the relevance of "well-regulated" to incorporation in the |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:14 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. But didn't you think it was relevant... |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:23 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Again, my reply was to "30. It does say 'well-regulated'. I think she is on the right side in this." |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Is your colon well regulated? |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 09:51 AM Response to Reply #30 |
65. In constitutional context, "well regulated" means "fully functioning and working." nt |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
38. So we have a three way split. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-31-09 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
42. The Pennsylvania Constitution prohibits regulating firearms. nt |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
57. SHHHH!! |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
60. Let us just reflect on the absurdity of banning these |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
61. Didn't Presser say that all the Bill of Rights didn't limit state power? |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
63. No, it is NOT A GOOD THING. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
67. Uhhh... What? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
69. Non-starter.. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-01-09 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
71. Uh, wait a minute. Did I read this correctly? *Nunchaku* are BANNED in NY?? |
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