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Please take a moment to listen to the 2008 Heller vs DC decision: https://s3.amazonaws.com/oyez.case-media.ogg/case_data/2007/07-290/20080626o_07-290.ogg https:

• minikites 7y ago
  >Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph Ellis criticized Scalia's Heller decision as political agenda disguised as originalist principles: "If Heller reads like a prolonged exercise in legalistic legerdemain, ... that is because Scalia's preordained outcome forced him to perform three challenging tasks: to show that the words of the Second Amendment do not mean what they say; to ignore the historical conditions his originalist doctrine purportedly required him to emphasize; and to obscure the radical implications of rejecting completely the accumulated wisdom of his predecessors on the court."
  • jakeogh 7y ago
    A void criticism. Translates to nothing of substance. Interesting in the context of that recording; Ellis (a proven liar who claimed to have been a platoon leader in Vietnam) really has nothing to say.