Attorneys for the city of Chicago are planning to defend the city's gun ban, and Thursday they told aldermen how they plan to do it.In other news the suburb of Wilmette, Illinois has repealed their gun ban! Both stories are via Newsalert!
Mara Georges, the top lawyer for the city, says that a recent supreme court ruling striking down Washington D.C.'s gun ban doesn't apply to Chicago because a city is different than a federal jurisdiction.
GEORGES: What would have to happen for it to apply to Chicago is that the district court would have to fail to follow well established supreme court precedent.
Georges says in the past, the Supreme Court has explicitly ruled that some of the amendments in the bill of rights apply to states and cities—for example, the right to a lawyer. But the court was silent on other amendments, such as the one at play here, the right to bear arms. Georges says lacking clear direction, a city like Chicago is free to regulate guns.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Chicago Will Fight to Keep Gun Ban
The city of Chicago remains defiant according to this CPR report:
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