Below The Beltway

After nearly two centuries of silence, the Supreme Court today struck down a District of Columbia gun ban and affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major […]

Today, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that a Louisiana law allowing the death penalty for rape of a child even when it doesn’t result in death is unconstitutional:
A divided Supreme Court ruled today that it is unconstitutional to execute someone who rapes a child but does not kill the victim.
In a 5 […]

George Will takes John McCain to task for his recent statement that last week’s Gitmo ruling from the Supreme Court was the “worst decision in history”:
The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the […]

Sometime within the next three weeks, the Supreme Court will issue it’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, which will be the Supreme Court’s first major ruling on the Second Amendment in decades, and, already, the anti-gun forces are saying that they expect to lose:
The nation’s leading gun control group filed a “friend of the court” […]

Yesterday, for the third time in as many years, the Supreme Court has struck down a key provision of the Bush Administration’s policy toward terror suspects apprehended in the War on Terror:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered its third consecutive rebuff to the Bush administration’s handling of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, ruling […]

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connnor is apparently involved in a project to bring Constitutional jurisprudence to the online gaming world:
If you imagine what Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is doing in her retirement, you might not come up with this: Designing provocative clothing for virtual avatars to wear in a multiplayer […]

As I noted yesterday, a columnist in the Washington Post suggested that Barack Obama should offer a Supreme Court seat to Hillary Clinton as a way of convincing her to leave the Presidential race.
Well, it seems I wasn’t the only one who thought it was a bad idea.
Ann Althouse was positively apoplectic:
Now, why did WaPo […]

A Washington Post columnist utters words that should send chills down your spine — Supreme Court Justice Hillary Rodham Clinton:
As the primary season nears a merciful end, the Clinton-Obama conflict is giving way to Obama-Clinton conjecture. Many in the Democratic Party support a so-called dream ticket of both, with Barack Obama at the top. They […]

Today, the Supreme Court handed down a decision upholding an Indiana law that requires voters to show a Photo ID at polling places:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter-identification law on Monday, declaring that a requirement to produce photo identification is not unconstitutional and that the state has a “valid interest” in improving election […]

Last night’s 60 Minutes interview with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was, as I expected it would be, quite fascinating on all accounts. Scalia touched on issues ranging from judicial philosophy, to abortion, the First Amendment, and Bush v. Gore.
You can read the full transcript here, or just watch the video:
Part I:

Part II: