Supreme Watch

Kudos to the U.S. Supreme Court for striking down the Chicago handgun ban. It's my understanding the longtime Chicago ban prohibited people from owning and keeping handguns in their homes. Clearly unconstitutional in my book. And now the Supreme Court verifies my opinion.  The court ruled 5-4 the 2nd Amendment does apply to the state and local governments.  Where I might disagree is in the majority's opinion is where Justice Alito writes the Second Amendment is "among the most fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty."  I don't know if I would go that far, but it is an important one no doubt.

The conservative court also ruled in favor of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law that on-campus Christian groups cannot bar gays and still get funding from the school.  This ruling was also 5-4.

Two very different cases from opposite ends of the political spectrum and I think the Court nailed them both.