The Supreme Court's ruling in D.C. v. Heller was a constitutional earthquake, and its aftershocks are beginning to transform the constitutional landscape well beyond gun rights, in ways that have liberals cheering and even joining hands with one-time adversaries like the National Rifle Association. A progressive legal group and liberal law professors have joined gun-rights advocates on the same side of a 7th Circuit case that, no matter what its outcome, is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
February 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling in D.C. v. Heller was a constitutional earthquake, breathing life into the Second Amendment as a guarantee of an individual right to bear arms.
But the aftershock of that decision is beginning to transform the constitutional landscape well beyond gun rights, in ways that have liberals cheering and even joining hands with one-time adversaries like the National Rifle Association.
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