Richard Posner has an interesting article -- essentially an application of his recent HLR Foreword -- critiquing the Supreme Court's decision in Heller, the D.C. gun control case. It's a useful corrective to the glib certainty of the majority opinion and its strongest supporters. And...
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There's something of a curious disconnect between two passages of Scalia's opinion in Heller:After an exhaustive discussion of the arguments for and against gun control, Justice Breyer arrives at his.
Great point by Sandy Levinson: If one had any reason to believe that either Scalia or Stevens was a competent historian, then perhaps it would be worth reading the pages.