The NRA has won their motion to gain an allotment of the oral arguments in McDonald v. Chicago. As I’d previously mentioned, Gura gets 30 minutes to argue his case, a portion of which has already been given to the Texas Attorney General.
Frankly, I’m not the least happy having Paul Clement argue on our behalf. This is the guy who argued during Heller that the Supreme Court should stick with a broad standard of scrutiny favoring government interests. Why the NRA retained him, of all people, is beyond me. Stephen Halbrook would have been a much better choice.
As Gura put it, “I hope that this time Paul understands that handgun bans are unconstitutional.”
I’ve no idea as to the Court’s motives in granting the motion. It could be that a couple of Justices are reluctant to overrule Slaughterhouse, or it could just be that they want as many perspectives as possible. Continued...