Mar 022010
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear McDonald v. Chicago, in which the Court will decide whether the City of Chicago can disarm it citizens by forbidding them from owning handguns, or whether gun ownership is a “privilege” of citizenship protected by the U.S. Constitution. In doing so, it will reconsider whether courts should play a more robust role in the protection of the basic liberties of the people.
Such a statement may seem counterintuitive. Of course courts protect rights; it’s their job to interpret the Constitution to do just that.
