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...hawkish position on Iran and his unwavering support for the war in Iraq - often fall on deaf ears. The Obama campaign wants "to establish the idea that McCain's military bravery does not automatically make him a good Commander in Chief," says Clyde Wilcox, a political science professor at Georgetown University...
...Qaeda terror network find such reports inherently unreliable. "It's trying to make a diagnosis from thousands of miles away with only fragments of the medical chart," says Paul Pillar, former top analyst and deputy director of the CIA's counterterrorism center, who now teaches at Georgetown University. Says Frances Fragos Townsend, who stepped down last November as chief of President George W. Bush's Homeland Security Council, "I've read all the same conflicting reports [on bin Laden's health] that people have talked to you about. I never found one set of reporting more persuasive than another...
...role as the swing vote. But ideological blocs such as these have been a much rarer occurrence this season, belying the headlines that greeted both decisions. The gun decision was an anomaly in the way the court was behaving, says Richard Lazarus, director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University's Law School: "In this term there have been few dissents read from the bench and when the justices disagreed it tended not to be along liberal and conservative splits...
...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 pro-gun forces from using the Court's ruling...
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...