Clayton Cramer has a post up about the judges being picked for the appeal of Seegars v. Ashcroft. He point to Prof. Volokh who in turn points to Matt at Stop The Bleating who has some speculations on how the judges generally are on the Right to Arms. The Countertop Chronicles chimes in as does Triggerfinger.
That enough linky goodness for ya?
There were two suits that challenged the D.C. gun ban: one was the aforementioned Seegars v. Ashcroft which was launched by the NRA after two lawyers who work for the CATO institute filed Parker v. District of Columbia. If you go here & scroll down a little you'll see a few posts on the two respective cases.
The gist of it is that Parker is a much better case than Seegars as it doesn't muddy things the way the Seegars suit does. Also it does not involve the Attorney General directly so it avoids having to take on the department of Justice in court. In addition any lawsuit that claims to be for the protection of the Right to Arms while it concedes registration as permissible is not what I'd call a good thing.
I would hope the Parker case travels through the legal system ahead of Seegars but for some reason it looks like the reverse will occur.
Posted by Publicola at August 19, 2004 04:24 PM