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...control] regulations." Neither expects that to deter pro-gun forces from using the Court's ruling as ammunition. Both Tushnet and Barnett agree that Chicago, which has banned gun ownership since 1982, is likely to be the setting for the next major gun rights battle. (Chicago mayor Richard Daley called the court's ruling "a very frightening decision" and vowed to quash challenges to the city's ordinance...
...Chicagoans are still on edge. Their mayor, Richard M. Daley, has led a dazzling economic and cultural renaissance during his nearly 20-year rule. Yet, for all Daley's success, his police department remains a blemish on his legacy. Weis was named to the job in November, following the resignation of the last superintendent, Philip Cline, in April 2007, amid a series of department scandals. They included an apparently drunken off-duty officer who was videotaped beating a female bartender. In September, federal authorities charged a member of the department's elite special operations unit with planning a colleague...
...Army bomb expert. At the FBI he handled drug, terrorism and white-collar crime cases before being named head of the agency's Philadelphia office in May 2006. Weis is the first outsider in four decades to run Chicago's 13,500-officer police department - and the move won Daley praise from some of his usual critics. However, police officers are skeptical of Weis, mainly because it is the FBI that frequently investigates alleged police misconduct...
...another episode, Weis tapped a former FBI agent - and one of his best friends - to be his chief of staff. But within weeks, Daley installed one of his own staffers into the job. "Translation: Mayor Daley wants his own eyes and ears at the police department," quipped a Chicago Sun-Times columnist. In a recent TIME interview, Weis said of Daley, "He's never dictated who I should hire, and who I should promote." But Weis still knows that, in the end, Daley is the boss. Meanwhile, the new police superintendent has proposed that his officers submit to annual physical...
...while Obama couldn't win the support of the Daleys' political machine--he knew they would back Hynes--he shrewdly planted some political seeds. He wrote Bill Daley, a longtime Democratic wise man, saying that while it was only right for the Daleys to support a loyal friend, he hoped they would be for him if he won the primary. "I thought, that's a very smooth move," said the younger Daley, who now supports Obama for the White House...