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In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on McDonald vs. Chicago, which found the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applies to all states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson said it’s important the new justice be a strict constructionist who follows what the framers set out for in Second Amendment.
Pearson has said his group is involved in one case – fighting suburban Deerfield's attempt to ban certain guns – that it is prepared to take to the Supreme Court. The ban was put on hold last month when a Lake County circuit court put an injunction on the ordinance. |
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| "Political mapmaking" is, by definition, a POLITICAL issue. Courts are not constitutionally empowered to usurp political issues - they are the province of legislatures. If you want to affect the results of redistricting, then change the balance of representatives in your legislature. You cannot circumvent their constitutional authority to act, whether or not you like the results. |
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| The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State. Our opinion is that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right. [Nunn vs. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846)] |
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