The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that Illinois can keep a new law in place blocking the sale of certain semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines for now as the matter is slated for appeals court arguments.
early history of the republic. every supreme court justice used to write ab individual opinion, following english practice, and john marshall stop this, he wanted to enhance the prestige. we ll issue one opinion, no dissents, a collective, neutral body, we ll say what the law is, and that succeeded for a time in shoring up the power of the court. and then now i think we re seeing kind of a return to this idea of its politics. is health care once again going to become the the issue of2012 campaign as it was before? what happens with the decision, it s all a political issue. if the whole bill is upheld, the republican party will use this as their primary get out the vote strategy, if it s struck down, it creates a big headache for the obama administration and campaign. people think it s a go ahead idea for obama to run against the court in a way.