Having voiced my (admittedly emotional) opinion earlier on the SCOTUS ruling on Kennedy, I really can’t let Heller pass. CNN has the short version:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a sweeping ban on handguns in the nation’s capital violated the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
This is a much better ruling.
Unlike the broad role the court took upon itself in Kennedy, the SCOTUS has limited itself in Heller to saying, effectively: “Your law went too far.” The justices did not then go on to define what the law should be, nor did it try to direct society’s future. It left that to the proper jurisdiction.
Alex Knapp and James Joyner go into the ruling more fully at Outside The Beltway, and the SCOTUSblog has also been busy.