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Antonin Scalia, a sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice, has died:
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia - one of most conservative members of the high court - has died. Justice Scalia's death could shift the balance of power on the US high court, allowing President Barack Obama to add a fifth liberal justice to the court. The court's conservative majority has recently stalled major efforts by the Obama administration on climate change and immigration.
Justice Scalia, 79, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. He died in his sleep early on Saturday while in West Texas for [a] hunting trip, the US Marshall service said. Justice Scalia was one of the most prominent proponents of "originalism" - a conservative legal philosophy that believes the US Constitution has a fixed meaning and does not change with the times.
Justice Scalia's death is, unsurprisingly, now being widely reported.
From the San Antonio Express News:
According to a report, Scalia arrived at the ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did not appear for breakfast, a person associated with the ranch went to his room and found a body.
[...] The U.S. Marshal Service, the Presidio County sheriff and the FBI were involved in the investigation. Officials with the law enforcement agencies declined to comment.
A federal official who asked not to be named said there was no evidence of foul play and it appeared that Scalia died of natural causes.
A gray Cadillac hearse pulled into the ranch last Saturday afternoon. The hearse came from Alpine Memorial Funeral Home.
Most major news outlets are covering this story, including CNN [video autoplays], The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NBC.
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Sunday February 14 2016, @07:53PM
You have people that still insist that the 2nd amendment grants individual gun ownership rights when that's almost certainly not what they had in mind and doesn't even make sense from a historical point of view.
Sorry, virtually every constitutional scholar disagrees with you.
The pre-existing right to gun ownership by citizens was PRECISELY what the 2nd amendment had in mind. And having just overthrown one dictatorship, and not wanting another, it made perfect sense historically to preserve the right to bear arms. (In fact there is a well reasoned school of thought that the 2nd Amendment preserves the right of people to keep and bear ANY similar weapons that an individual soldier might carry into battle.)
Further, you betray a very broken understanding of the constitution by your phrase "the 2nd amendment grants individual gun ownership rights". The second amendment, like all amendments, restricts the government from abridging a right. It does not grant a right. The rights precede the government. This is probably at the root of your misunderstanding of the Constitution. The Constitution limits and controls Government. Not People. You've managed to fundamentally miss the point all these years,
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.