Maine Becomes 38th State To Ask SCOTUS To Incorporate 2nd Amendment.

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Maine joins federal case on gun ownership

By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff


Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills and three members of Maine’s congressional delegation have joined 37 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to apply its decision issued last year in the Washington, D.C., gun ban case to every municipality and state in the nation.

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The briefs signed by Mills, Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and Rep. Michael Michaud urge the justices to apply that ruling to states and municipalities under the 14th Amendment. The due process clause of that amendment has been used since the Civil War to apply the Bill of Rights to the states.

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[TheWraith]

1. Good. Wish we'd incorporate all the amendments and get it over with.

I've never seen the validity to this half-assed selective enforcement of the constitution.

[PavePusher]

2. In my reading of the Constitution...

all the Amendments should effectively be incorperated via Articles 4 and 6, not to mention that since easch state had to ratify it in order to join the U.S., that should mean it applies the them.

I guess I'm too literal to be a lawyer. Thank the deities. It takes a lawyer to screw things up this badly.

[aikoaiko]

3. 38 out of 50 is 76%

Those numbers can't be ignored.