volokh.com - 11/21/2008
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AG Mukasey on How to Handle Detainees: Today's WSJ has an op-ed by U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey that addresses similar issues to the speech he was delivering last night at the Federalist Society's Annual Lawyers' Convention before he was incapacitated. Among other things, he called upon ...
volokh.com - 11/25/2008
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Akhil Amar on Heller: In the Supreme Court
issue of the Harvard Law Review , Akhil Amar...
has a case comment on DC v. Heller that begins in this amusing way: Well, the show sure ended with a bang. On the last day of the Term, the Court — for the first ...
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volokh.com - 11/24/2008
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"Judge Postpones Ruling In Lori Drew Case": Kim
Zetter of Wired has the latest update in the...
Lori Drew case, namely that Judge Wu decided not to rule at this time on the defense's latest motion to dismiss (this one specifically raising the lack of ...
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msnbc.msn.com - 11/21/2008
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Eric Holder and the Second Amendment
Hit & Run —
... various government entities. (In an Issue Paper on the watch list proposal, I quote a FBI spokesman stating that there is no cause to deny gun ownership to someone simply because she is on the FBI list.) After the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the D.C. handgun ban and self-defense ban were unconstitutional in 2007, Holder complained that the decision "opens the door to more people having more access to guns and putting guns on the streets." Whole thing here. Kopel's reason archives here.
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A Run on Guns, Just in Time for the Holidays
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... Now, it appears Obama's AG pick, Eric Holder, held plenty of unfriendly ideas about gun ownership during his time as Deputy AG, and filed a brief in support of the D.C. handgun ban in the Heller case: ...
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CNN: Attorney general collapses giving speech; he's alert in hospital
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