Plaintiff represented by Gura sues Washington D.C. in new Second Amendment case

[bob.a]

As far as being a politician in DC goes, all it takes is to be a Democrat. There was one Republican on the DC council, but she lost last cycle.

All the real action is in the primaries. There's a lot of push from the pulpits. So long as you can get the preachers to promote your campaign you're in. I don't think that the actual concerns of DC residents gets much attention, except regarding schools. And the DC schools are among the worst in the nation, so don't look for a lot of mental voltage in the body politic. While the majority of the public are not fools, you can get an idea about how they view their politicians by the fact that they keep electing Marion Barry to office, even though he's a convicted felon and chronic tax evader.

Reminds me of Chicago somehow.

 

[BillCA]

Among the ideas we have accumulated are the "reasonable man" test, rulings about reasonable suspicion, etc. So the law can't be immune to reason and logic.

I never said the law was immune from reason and logic. It was another court justice who pointed out that the law does not require logic. It is, after all, a creation of the very political legislature.

If a state decided to pass a law that all taxicabs and only taxicabs must be painted a certain shade of the color yellow and painted a different color when sold out of taxi service, they are free to do so. Because the law is not logic, trying to fight the law in court because it makes no logical sense will not prevail.

Likewise, a legislature could, theoretically, pass a law that says all AR-15 rifles in their state be finished with either a fluorescent lime-green finish or a bright yellow finish.