Word: barnette
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That's why, as the New York Times reported earlier this week, the days leading up this public display of unity have been filled with a lot of private hardball, with Washington, D.C., dealmaker Robert Barnett negotiating between the Obama and Clinton camps to rearrange the spoils in a way everyone can live with. Clinton staffers need jobs, Clinton vendors need to be paid, Clinton egos need to be stroked...
...says he anticipates a "period of uncertainty" as lower courts wrestle with whether the ruling can be applied to their jurisdictions. Ultimately, he says, "the answer is going to be yes, but it's going to take one big case or a series of smaller ones to establish." Randy Barnett, a professor of legal theory at Georgetown University Law Center, notes that while Scalia's opinion "telegraphs" his belief that the ruling will apply to states, "that's not what this case is about. It's about gun bans, not [gun control] regulations." Neither expects that to deter...
Instead of rendering the Second Amendment a dormant law, the Court's ruling has given it life. "It is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct," Scalia wrote. That view aligns the Court's conservative wing with most current scholarly interpretations, says Barnett, the Georgetown professor. But despite finally affixing its imprimatur on a reading of the convoluted Amendment, the Court's ruling raises nearly as many questions as it settles. As Justice Stevens wrote, it "leaves for future cases the formidable task of defining the scope" of its impact...
According to quotes from the tape cited by The New York Times, Kennedy is heard speaking with his aides and staffers about the growing tension with Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett over allowing James H. Meredith, a black student, to attend the University of Mississippi...
...point, Kennedy asked Cox, who served as Kennedy’s solicitor general, about the prospect of arresting Barnett as well as General Edwin A. Walker, a former military officer who is said to have urged an anti-integration crowd to resist federal actions violently...