Drama and history out of the Supreme Court
At the end of their current session, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling today that again, comes out of a 5-4 vote. These all wind up controversial one way or the other.
This one, on handguns, was a whopper.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history…
The court had not conclusively interpreted the Second Amendment since its ratification in 1791. The amendment reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The entire opinion is linked there, and just about every other news site.
Some have alleged that this ruling is merely judicial activism from the right. Judicial activism, however, entails going beyond what’s in the Constitution — “finding†new rights, or stretching words past their plain meaning.
As in this ruling. Take a look at who weighed in on that one, and what they said.
