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    How Would Justice Kagan Approach the Second Amendment?

    August 3, 2010 at 4:00 pm

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    At a Second Amendment Task Force held earlier this summer, Hans Von Spakovsky, Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, explained that Elena Kagan’s lack of action in her current job as Solicitor General with regard to the 2nd Amendment speaks volumes about how Kagan would rule on similar cases … More

    Alan Gura and Robert McNamara on McDonald and More

    July 9, 2010 at 5:26 pm

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    Last week in McDonald vs the City of Chicago, the US Supreme Court held that the right of an individual to possess firearms is protected by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore applies to the … More

    McDonald v. Chicago: An Exclusive Interview

    June 28, 2010 at 2:45 pm

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    After helping to strike down the Chicago handgun ban, the winners in today’s Supreme Court decision promised, in an exclusive interview with the Heritage Foundation, that more such cases would be coming in the next few weeks. Alan Gura, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, promised, “There will be future cases, … More

    Video: What Could McDonald v. Chicago Mean for the Second Amendment?

    March 4, 2010 at 9:00 am

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    We caught up with Alan Gura, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs (also the attorney in the Heller decision) and Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation to get their take on the oral arguments, the legal theories involved, and the importance of McDonald v. Chicago for the Second Amendment. More

    In the Green Room: Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) on Guns, Property and the EPA

    March 3, 2010 at 11:30 am

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    Heritage Foundation today to meet with bloggers at The Blogger’s Briefing. Before the meeting, he sat down with us to talk about the Supreme Court taking up the Chicago gun-ban case, a leaked document from the Department of the Interior, and the EPA’s decision to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. More

    Supreme Court Takes Up Chicago Gun Ban Case Today

    March 2, 2010 at 8:48 am

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    This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in McDonald v. Chicago, a landmark case addressing whether states can deny the rights of their citizens to keep and bear arms.  This question was left open by the Supreme Court’s groundbreaking yet common sense decision in Heller v. District of … More

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