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Last year, Judge Laurence Silberman threw out the D.C. handgun ban as a violation of the Second Amendment.(The Week)(Brief article)
Last year, Judge Laurence Silberman threw out the D.C. handgun ban as a violation of the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court has now taken up the case, and the Bush administration has, surprisingly, weighed in against Judge Silberman. Solicitor general Paul Clement agrees with Silberman that the amendment protects an individual right to own guns but allows reasonable restrictions on that right. Clement says that the District's ban may violate the amendment. But he argues that the judge applied too strict a test to determine which regulations are permissible, and worries that this test will make it impossible to sustain even laws against machine guns. ...
- The opinion, by Judge Laurence Silberman, held that the authors of the Second...
- Magazine article from: National Review April 2, 2007 700+ words
The opinion, by Judge Laurence Silberman, held that the authors of the Second Amendment believed the "people possessed a natural right to keep and bear arms." The backstory...
- Silberman's revenge. (Judge Laurence Silberman wrote the opinion that struck...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Corn, David Morley, Jefferson February 13, 1988 700+ words
...investigate alleged criminal activity by high-level government officials, the judge who wrote the opinion, Laurence Silberman, may not have been a disinterested party. Silberman, you may recall, played a role in one of the central events...
- GOV. PERDUE APPOINTS U.S. ATTORNEY NAHMIAS TO SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 14, 2009 700+ words
...selection of me to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, a position that...said. "Decisions by our Supreme Court that properly apply the...S. Circuit Court Judge Laurence Silberman and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia...
- O'Connor's Rightful Heir? Kennedy may check the Supreme Court's tilt toward the...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Thomas, Evan Taylor, Stuart, Jr. January 30, 2006 700+ words
...longtime and esteemed Supreme Court reporter for The...is to subtly push Supreme Court justices to the left...of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberman, who popularized...Connor from the Supreme Court, Kennedy is seen...
- The campaign for Supreme Court jobs: at least one justice could leave soon, and...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Gest, Ted July 2, 1990 700+ words
...in the land: Justice of the Supreme Court. It matters little that there...long has been touted for the Supreme Court, but some conservatives have...position pleasing to the right is Laurence Silberman, a federal appeals judge in...
- The truth won't out. (Supreme Court refuses to reinstate Oliver North's...
- Magazine article from: The Nation June 17, 1991 700+ words
On May 28 the Supreme Court refused to reinstate Oliver North's convictions for acts...happens, the appeals court's opinion was written by Judge Laurence Silberman, who in 1980 was co-chair of the Reagan-Bush foreign policy...
- A judicial revolution.(COMMENTARY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 12, 2002 700+ words
...Bork, Antonin Scalia (later elevated to the Supreme Court), Laurence Silberman, Kenneth Starr, James Buckley, Raymond Randolph...Pollock. Nov. 5 also harbingers vacancies in the Supreme Court when its current term concludes in June 2003...
- EDITORIAL: Architect of the '9/11 Constitution'.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) September 24, 2006 700+ words
...Federalist Society, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for...rights of the nation's citizens," Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote...
