Back in the early 1990s, my students and I at Troy State University pondered ways to raise money for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Legal Defense Fund. The fund, all private donations, primarily gets used to support the legal battles of individual journalists and to support cases where journalists seek access to government records.
We decided to sell T-shirts. I came up with this verbiage:
“Talk is cheap, free speech isn’t. Support SPJ’s Legal Defense Fund.”
Guest blogger Richard B. Stemmer, Jr.
While William Standring is obviously smarting from Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, I, on the other hand, am enjoying a guarded optimism about it.
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In 1931, the Supreme Court concluded that the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause applied to the states the First Amendment’s ban on free press prohibitions, a stricture that had until then applied only to Congress.
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Understanding the Second Amendment
If in District of Columbia v. Heller, the gun control case, the United States Supreme Court concluded that D.C. cannot ban handguns, it did not say that gun control was unconstitutional. Not even unconstitutional in the District, the only jurisdiction in which Heller, for now, applies.
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The Heart of the Case
To grasp aright the Supreme Court’s ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, the gun control case, you have to know a few of things about the Second Amendment.
