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A finding that the Second Amendment protects individuals’ right to own a gun could also provide more solid ground for recognition of the right to abortion, to sexual privacy, to gay marriage, and to a wide variety of other rights that conservative justices on the court and “originalist” Constitutional scholars have long opposed.

Brenda Wright, Director of Democracy Program at Demos, has posted some insights at the American Constitution Society’s blog on the big campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, to be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow. Here’s her take:
Overruling those cases would mean that corporate political spending no longer needs to be funded [...]

Here’s an interesting discovery by Rick Pildes, law professor at New York University, posted on Balkinization.
Turns out Justice O’Connor wrote an opinion in 1998, joined by her conservative colleagues William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, that cited as persuasive an aspect of foreign law, notwithstanding Republicans’ strong objections to the idea that foreign law [...]

After Matt Corley of ThinkProgress picked up my post about Jason Mattera’s tongue-in-cheek “ghetto” joke about Sonia Sotomayor, Mattera posted a response at HotAir.com. HotAir’s Ed Morrissey asked “why TP and the WI spends its time trolling Jason’s Facebook account,” and speaking for myself, I’m friends with Mattera on Facebook and monitor my feed from [...]

While Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s being pilloried on the right for a 2001 speech in which she said her race and gender inevitably impact her judgments, it turns out retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said much the same thing, Greg Sargent reports.

In an interview with Ladies Home Journal that Sargent unearthed, O’Connor — who [...]