Bartholomew Roberts
Moderator
Thanks for sharing the link to the cert petition. I've read a lot of legal briefs and that is quite possibly one of the best briefs I have ever seen.
Gura's logic is relentless and inescapable for anybody who even makes a pretense of intellectual honesty.
I also like the way he framed the question. Instead of making this just an issue of whether the Courts should incorporate the Second Amendment under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, Gura turns it into an argument that the lower courts were bound by existing Supreme Court precedent to apply the due process incorporation test and refused to do so.
If nothing else, that brief is going to make hypocrisy on the Court abundantly clear for later generations.
Another plus of the brief is that Gura pretty clearly lays out where he is going from here for the next four Second Amendment cases. He has clearly given a lot of thought to this and is pursuing it in an extremely methodical manner.
Gura's logic is relentless and inescapable for anybody who even makes a pretense of intellectual honesty.
I also like the way he framed the question. Instead of making this just an issue of whether the Courts should incorporate the Second Amendment under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, Gura turns it into an argument that the lower courts were bound by existing Supreme Court precedent to apply the due process incorporation test and refused to do so.
If nothing else, that brief is going to make hypocrisy on the Court abundantly clear for later generations.
Another plus of the brief is that Gura pretty clearly lays out where he is going from here for the next four Second Amendment cases. He has clearly given a lot of thought to this and is pursuing it in an extremely methodical manner.