{"id":29063,"date":"2010-10-11T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mcdonald-v-chicago-decision\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:24:38","slug":"mcdonald-v-chicago-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/liberty\/mcdonald-v-chicago-decision.php","title":{"rendered":"McDonald v. Chicago decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a hiatus for the summer - biggest blog-related news while I've been playing hooky was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/29\/us\/29scotus.html\">McDonald v. Chicago decision in late June<\/a>, where the Supreme Court held 5-4 that the Second Amendment applies to the States.<\/p><p>Four of the majority justices reasoned that the clause is incorporated through the 14th amendment due process clause (the conventional argument); one, Justice Clarence Thomas reasoned it is incorporated through the 14th amendment privileges or immunities clause.  Thomas's reasoning was the reasoning for which I argued in the<a href=\"http:\/\/progressiveliberty.blogspot.com\/search?q=mcdonald\"> amicus briefs and law review articles <\/a>related to this issue.  So, we wish we would have gotten a majority on the privileges or immunities argument, but at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/08-1521.ZC1.html\">Thomas agreed<\/a>.<\/p><p>One of the most disappointing parts of the case was that the four dissenters - Breyer, Stevens, Sotomayor and Ginsburg, people with whom I usually have more in common than not - did not go along with the persuasive history that the fourteenth amendment privileges or immunities clause was intended to apply the ENTIRE Bill of Rights to the States.<\/p><p>I published an OpEd at the time of the decision, which ran in a good number of papers nationwide.  I'll post that <a href=\"http:\/\/progressiveliberty.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/oped-on-mcdonald-v-chicago-case.html\">here.<br><\/a><br><!--Session data--><\/p><div><\/div><p><!--Session data--><\/p><div><\/div><p><span><\/span><\/p><div>        <!-- Top iFrame -->                <!-- Bottom iFrame -->         <\/div><p>   <\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b08af_3122159219131426808-5954522758626015730?l=progressiveliberty.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a hiatus for the summer - biggest blog-related news while I've been playing hooky was the McDonald v. Chicago decision in late June, where the Supreme Court held 5-4 that the Second Amendment applies to the States.Four of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/liberty\/mcdonald-v-chicago-decision.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}