Daily Archives: June 24, 2010

Idaho Press-Tribune: “Attorneys for Nampa Classical Academy say a lawsuit to allow the school’s use of religious texts will continue even if a state commission votes to take the school’s charter away. … ‘It is a state-wide issue that affects every public school at every level,” Alliance Defense Fund attorney [David Cortman] said in an e-mail to the Idaho Press-Tribune.”

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “A federal judge is expected to decide Thursday afternoon whether a Wisconsin evangelist may hand out Bibles without a vendor license at this weekend’s Twin Cities Pride festival in Minneapolis’ Loring Park. … Johnson’s attorney, [Nate Kellum], who was present via teleconference during the hourlong hearing before a full courtroom, argued that Pride is attempting to keep Johnson from distributing materials at the festival ‘because they don’t like his message.’”

ADF Attorney Daniel Blomberg writing at Speak Up Movement / Church: “So what if Congress forces the military makes homosexual behavior normal? Isn’t that just a military issue? Why should average Americans care at all? Because this change will change America. Why is that? For at least two reasons. First, the military is a repository of American culture—it reflects, in a single institution, many of the highest values our society respects. … [T]he second point: perhaps the only institution more deeply respected and widely recognized as the training ground for inculcating societal values than the military is marriage. And normalizing homosexual conduct in the military will not only—as an ACLU attorney recently stated—be a cultural precursor to normalizing homosexual ‘marriage,’ it will actually create the perfect storm for destroying the primary federal law protecting marriage—the Defense of Marriage Act (‘DOMA’).”

Christianity Today: “‘Freedom of worship’ has recently replaced the phrase ‘freedom of religion’ in public pronouncements from the Obama administration. Experts are concerned that the new rhetoric may signal a policy change. … Freedom of worship means the right to pray within the confines of a place of worship or to privately believe, said Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom and member of the commission. ‘It excludes the right to raise your children in your faith; the right to have religious literature; the right to meet with co-religionists; the right to raise funds; the right to appoint or elect your religious leaders, and to carry out charitable activities, to evangelize, [and] to have religious education or seminary training.’” | Via Rick Garnett. Related: Why “freedom of worship” is not enough | George Weigel: The Erosion of Religious Freedom | Michelle Boorstein | Washington Post: Freedom of religion vs. freedom of worship

ACLU of Kentucky: “The ACLU of Kentucky today filed suit in federal court onbehalf of two plaintiffs challenging Kentucky’s $100 limit on campaigncontributions in school board elections. The law prevents individuals from contributing more than $100 to anycandidate for school board. The ACLU argues that the contribution limit violates donors’right to free speech, in that it impermissibly restricts their ability tocontribute financial resources to their chosen candidate.”

New York Law School Professor Arthur S. Leonard analyzes Doe v. Reed, No. 09-559 (U.S. June 24, 2010) at LeonardLink: “My quick summary – Concur by Sotomayor with Ginsburg and Stevens – it should be difficult for plaintiffs to keep the names confidential; Concur by Alito – it should be easy for the plaintiffs to keep the names confidential; Concur by Stevens and Breyer – it should be difficult for plaintiffs to keep the names confidential; Concur by Scalia – originalist view of the First Amendment and characterization of petition signers as actually being involved in ‘legislating’ means there is only a weak First Amendment interest, if any, in keeping these names confidential. So Scalia is sees no problem with the statute, as such, and is very unfavorably disposed to the second claim. Dissent by Thomas – Strong First Amendment protection for privacy of petition signers, so statute violates the First Amendment. Interesting to see Thomas and Scalia sharply split.

Catholic News Agency: “After Bishop Thomas Olmsted publicly condemned an abortion authorized by Sr. Margaret McBride in a Catholic hospital in Arizona, and after much public outcry, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine has released a statement supporting the Phoenix bishop’s decision. … Church teaching, said the statement, holds that direct abortion is never permissible. Direct abortion is an act whose primary intent is to terminate a pregnancy and kill an unborn child. However, medical procedures which have other primary intentions, and which indirectly end the life of the unborn child, are not considered to be direct abortions nor immoral.”

ChristianNewsWire: “While any number of our co-religionists would represent the undeniable, historic Torah values shared by Orthodox and traditional Jews, we are devastated and broken-hearted by the choice of Elena Kagan. According to the Torah perspective adhered to by our 850-plus member Rabbis, as well as hundreds of thousands of Orthodox and traditional Jews, MS. KAGAN IS NON-KOSHER – NOT FIT TO SERVE – ON THE SUPREME COURT, OR ANY OTHER COURT.”

Christian Post: “Churches risk losing out on large amounts of donations because pastors and church leaders are too timid when it comes to preaching about financial needs and the importance of giving, according to a new report out this week. The report, ‘Why Christians Give,’ was compiled by McConkey Johnston International U.K. and based on the responses of 2,000 Evangelical Alliance members surveyed last fall.” | More information on the report from McConkey Johnston International

Metropolitan News-Enterprise: “‘The marriage relation is the foundation of all society, and is not to be severed on slight ground or for trivial causes. The policy of the law, therefore, is against granting divorces.’ That pronouncement came in a 1902 California Supreme Court opinion. … Nowadays, by contrast, a marriage is thought of by many as a transitory state in one’s life journey, with marital vows being but a tentative statement of present intent. The posture of the law with respect to divorce has been since the advent of a ‘no-fault’ system in 1970: ‘You want it, you got it.’”

Concerned Women for America: “Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, stated: ‘The DISCLOSE Act is designed to stifle Americans’ legitimate right to political speech and carves out exceptions for powerful special interest groups and unions. It places onerous regulations on small business owners and grassroots groups if they attempt to educate the public on candidates and issues.’”

Michael News writing at The Corner: “The Government Accounting Office (GAO) just put out a report on Planned Parenthood and other organizations that support legal abortion, and the report has been getting a lot of attention from conservative and Christian media outlets. … One aspect of the study that hasn’t received enough attention is the amount of federal funding received by the Guttmacher Institute, which was, up until recently, Planned Parenthood’s research arm. The GAO report indicates that it received $12.7 million from the federal government between 2002 and 2009 — a large sum for a non-profit think tank.”

Christian Post: “Young white evangelicals under the age of 35 are less likely than older evangelicals to identify themselves as conservative and are more supportive of government solutions to social problems, according to the report ‘Beyond the God Gap: A New Roadmap for Reaching Religious Americans on Public Policy Issues’ by Third Way and Public Religion Research . . . The group, along with PRR, found that there was a significant generational difference among white evangelicals on gay and lesbian issues. Young white evangelicals were more than twice as likely as the overall white evangelical population to support same-sex marriage, 24 percent to 10 percent.” | Full report: Beyond the God Gap: A New Roadmap for Reaching Religious Americans on Public Policy Issues

CNSNews: “Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) each refused to say whether Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan should have to justify her view on abortion at her upcoming confirmation hearing.”

Associated Press: “The Idaho Public Charter School Commission voted to revoke Nampa Classical Academy’s charter, citing a lack of stability in the school’s finances, despite a school board member’s plea ‘for grace and mercy.’”

Robert E. Scott writing at The Huffington Post: “Growing trade deficits with China eliminated or displaced 2.4 million U.S. jobs between 2001 and 2008. China’s manipulation of its currency, the Renminbi (RMB), is responsible for at least 1 million of these displaced jobs. … The world economy cannot afford to wait another three years for China to revalue, nor can we depend on China’s central bank to act responsibly. Congress must set a firm target and deadline for China to achieve a 40% revaluation of its currency.”

ChristianNewsWire: “Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), the world’s largest network of individuals harmed by abortion, said today that a new study on the link between women who suffer physical or sexual abuse and their later abortions does not go far enough in identifying how women seeking abortion should be counseled. ‘A Planned Parenthood official who participated in this Iowa study admits that her organization has not been asking women about any abuse they’ve suffered,’ said Janet Morana, co-founder of SNMAC.”

The Hill: “The House voted 219-206 Thursday to approve a campaign finance bill to tighten disclosure requirements for corporate and union spending on political campaigns.”

Associated Press: “Elena Kagan’s a politics-driven liberal, her detractors say. She’s a judicial activist. She treated military recruiters like second-class citizens during wartime. … ‘There will be a huge theme about whether the political activist part of her life and career, and her lack of legal experience, either as a judge or a lawyer – whether that will overcome the responsibility she has to be faithful to the law,’ said Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel.”

Boston Globe | Political Intelligence: “The 15-member Standing Committee of the American Bar Association has rated Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan ‘well-qualified’ by a unanimous vote, with one abstention, according to the ABA. It is the association’s highest rating for judicial nominees.”

9 News: “NSW Premier Kristina Keneally says she will allow a conscience vote on a bill advocating same-sex adoptions. Independent MP Clover Moore introduced the bill on Thursday, saying it was about time same-sex couples had equality when it comes to adoption rights.”

The Christian Institute: “Religious programming is being squeezed off commercial television stations, with ITV planning to air just one hour of religious content this year, according to a series of newly released letters. The decline was revealed after the Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, wrote to the nation’s terrestrial channels asking them about their commitment to religious broadcasting.”

The Christian Institute: “The Lord Mayor of Leicester has banned Christian prayers before council meetings, and branded the process ‘outdated, unnecessary and intrusive’. Colin Hall’s decision to abolish the prayers is likely to alarm many Christians who feel their faith is being increasingly excluded from the public sphere.”

“Roe itself was not decided along party lines. … But by intervening so heavy-handedly in a matter that over which there was not yet a political consensus, the Roe court prompted a powerful backlash, the rise of the antiabortion movement, which became a key part of the Republican constituency. The pro-abortion side in turn became ever more immoderate and powerful within the Democratic Party . . . ”

eTurboNews: “[Iceland] is set to legalize same-sex marriage this weekend, according to United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay. … Iceland will become the ninth country to legalize same-sex marriage following legislation that passed the country’s parliament earlier this month. Same-sex marriage is already legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Sweden, as well as in some areas of the United States and Mexico.”

El Dia [modified Google Translation]: “[There were 3,412 same-sex marriages] last year [of which 64.8 percent were between men] according to the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGTB), which cites data from the National Statistics Institute (INE).”

“The court found no violation of [Schalk and Kopf's, a homosexual couple in Austria who were denied the right to marry] human rights, although it was very divided on the issue of discrimination (four votes against three in holding that Austria did not discriminate).”

WorldNetDaily: “I invite you to read for yourself his misnamed ‘National Security Strategy’ – misnamed because it is actually a blueprint for running the whole world like he’s been running the United States since January 2009. Obama is hardly the first president to plead for America to join a New World Order. It started with the first George Bush and has continued unabated through three more administrations. But Obama’s so-called ‘National Security Strategy’ has little to do with securing the U.S. from threats and much more to do with turning over the U.S. to the illegitimate authority of global organizations.”

“True, 49 other states have adopted no-fault divorce. But New York would be unwise to discard a law has produced almost the lowest divorce rate in America.”

Rose McDermott, Nicholas A. Christakis, and James H. Fowler, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too: Social Network Effects on Divorce in a Longitudinal Sample Followed for 32 Years (October 18, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1490708

“Divorce is the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties. To explore how social networks influence divorce and vice versa, we utilize a longitudinal data set from the long-running Framingham Heart Study. We find that divorce can spread between friends, siblings, and coworkers, and there are clusters of divorcees that extend two degrees of separation in the network. We also find that popular people are less likely to get divorced, divorcees have denser social networks, and they are much more likely to remarry other divorcees. Interestingly, we do not find that the presence of children influences the likelihood of divorce, but we do find that each child reduces the susceptibility to being influenced by peers who get divorced. Overall, the results suggest that attending to the health of one’s friends’ marriages serves to support and enhance the durability of one’s own relationship, and that, from a policy perspective, divorce should be understood as a collective phenomenon that extends far beyond those directly affected.”

Via Ross Douthat.

LifeSiteNews: “Second marriages are more than 90% more likely to break up than first marriages, according to a new study by Australian researchers. The researchers also found that cohabiting, having children before marrying, and an imbalance between partners in the desire for children are all correlated with marital breakup.” | What’s love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability | Dr Rebecca Kippen, Professor Bruce Chapman, and Dr Peng Yu

NPR | Planet Money: “A middle-income, two-parent family will spend $222,360, on average, to raise a baby born in 2009, according to a government estimate released today.”

USCCB: “Direct abortion is never morally permissible. One may never directly kill an innocent human being, no matter what the reason. By contrast, in some situations, it may be permissible to perform a medical procedure on a pregnant woman that directly treats a serious health problem but that also has a secondary effect that leads to the death of the developing child.”

New York Times: “Father’s Day brings this offering of a dubious milestone: Husbands are now just as stressed out as their harried wives. … Just last week, Boston College released a study called ‘The New Dad’ suggesting that new fathers face a subtle bias in the workplace, which fails to recognize their stepped-up family responsibilities and presumes that they will be largely unaffected by children. … Fathers also seem more unhappy than mothers with the juggling act: In dual-earner couples, 59 percent of fathers report some level of ‘work-life conflict,’ compared with about 45 percent of women, according to a 2008 report from the Families and Work Institute in New York.”

The Hill: “Reps. Dan Burton (R-Ind) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) questioned whether Soros, who backs a number of liberal causes and Democratic candidates for office, had invested in a Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, with the knowledge that President Barack Obama might temporarily ban deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.”

ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco appeared on the Drew Mariani Show (Relevant Radio) to discuss the Arizona school choice litigation pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. | MP3 10:16 mins | ADF Media information page

ADF attorney Jordan Lorence on Point of View Radio to discuss the Proposition 8 Trial. | MP3 9:44 mins

ADF attorney Jeff Ventrella appeared on the Michael Medved Show to discuss the Blackstone Legal Fellowship. | MP3 5:13 mins

“After the couple broke up in 2008, the woman identified in court records only as Wendy wanted to be named a legal guardian of them. Her partner objected.”

Investors.com: “Our interior secretary plans to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium struck down by a federal judge. But if deep-water drilling is so unsafe, why are we helping Brazil drill nearly three times as deep? … Last August, the U.S. Export-Import Bank issued a ‘preliminary commitment’ letter to Brazil’s state-run Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion, with the promise of more to follow. Why are we lending billions to a foreign oil company that made $15 billion last year?” | Aug. 18, 2009: Obama to invest in offshore oil drilling – in Brazil! Soros stands to reap dividends!

Concerned Women for America: “Contrary to the ‘blank slate’ the White House media machine has tried to sell the American people, an objective review of Elena Kagan’s record reveals a surprisingly clear picture of who she is. Kagan’s record is that of a liberal political soldier, not an impartial jurist.”

Associated Press: “Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says he objects to a new policy in Provincetown allowing even elementary school students to receive free condoms, and to do so without telling their parents.”

The Raw Story: “According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com has found that Goldman Sachs sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the first quarter of 2010. Goldman’s sales were the largest of any firm during that time. Goldman would have pocketed slightly more than $266 million if their holdings were sold at the average price of BP’s stock during the quarter.”

Associated Press: “A federal judge in New Orleans has refused to delay his decision to strike down a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.”

“In a continuation of their presidential-primary struggle for the position of strongest supporter of homosexuality, both President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have been straining in recent months to show their supporters that they will march in step with the full gamut of the ‘gay rights’ agenda.” | Related: Remarks by the President at LGBT Pride Month reception; Obama promises to push on “gay rights” issues; Mississippi Lesbian Banned From Prom But Invited to White House; Presidential Proclamation–Father’s Day; Record number of LGBT staff in Obama administration | Hillary Clinton: Remarks at an event celebrating LGBT Month; “Clinton vows to fight for gay rights abroad”; Clinton to extend benefits to “gay partners” in Foreign Service; Homosexual agenda unveiled in Hillary confirmation hearing

LifeSiteNews: “According to House Republican sources, the House began meeting at 10:00 a.m. for legislative business and are now taking up [H.R. 5175], the ‘Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act’ that has pro-life, pro-family groups, and even the ACLU crying foul. The Act would force grassroots organizations to release the names of donors and members of their organizations into a publicly searchable database, and frustrate the ability of grassroots entities to communicate effectively with the public about public policy.”

Telegraph: “The author of The God Delusion, who has previously described religious education provided by faith schools as a form of child abuse, said he would want pupils to be taught to be skeptical and to appreciate the value of evidence rather than receive ‘indoctrination’ about atheism. He also said that his ‘free-thinking school’ would provide lessons about the gods of ancient Greece and Norse legend, and would treat the Bible as a work of literature rather than a basis for morality.”

Wall Street Journal: “The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll and a separate poll by C-SPAN affirm earlier readings that suggested a plurality of Americans support Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, but the support isn’t deep. The Journal’s poll finds 29% of Americans support Kagan, while 23% are opposed. Nearly half, 47%, say they don’t know enough to give an opinion. The C-SPAN poll finds 38% of respondents support Kagan, while 30% don’t and 33% have no opinion. A USA Today/Gallup poll released in early June found 46% supported Kagan and 32% were opposed, as Washington Wire reported at the time.”

Ethics and Public Policy Center: “According to Dr. Timothy Furnish, while many Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Iran prepare for the return of the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam, many in the international community worry that Islamic extremists will use the acquisition of nuclear bombs or other weapons of mass destruction to “hot-wire the apocalypse.” Dr. Furnish holds a Ph.D for Islamic history and is a leading expert on Muslim eschatology. He suggests that perhaps Mahdism is really being utilized as a tool to summon the extra-Shi`i Islamic world to join Tehran in its bid for Islamic world leadership. He will offer his insights on this timely topic followed by a panel discussion with EPPC Senior Fellow and former Senator Rick Santorum, Professor Cynthia Ayers of the U.S. Army War College, and Dr. Michael Ledeen, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.”

Reut Cohen writing at Pajamas Media: “UCI’s administration made an unprecedented decision to suspend the MSU for a full year. The decision was made after a school investigation found that the organization planned disruptions during a February speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. The decision to suspend the group was not so much about the fact that the MSU disrupted a speech, but that the group later lied about its intentions and actions. … The move to suspend the MSU over this recent incident has been welcomed by some in both the UC and wider Jewish communities.”

Yahoo (AFP): “North Korea threatened harsher punishment Thursday for a jailed US citizen unless Washington drops a campaign to censure it for the sinking of a South Korean warship. … Aijalon Gomes, a former English teacher in South Korea and reportedly a devout Christian, was arrested in January — the fourth US citizen in less than a year to be detained for illegal entry.”

Liberty Counsel: “Late yesterday, Liberty Counsel filed a complaint in federal court in New Mexico to stop the unconstitutional censorship of a group of students at Roswell High School and Goddard High School called ‘Relentless in Roswell.’ … School officials never objected to the group’s activities until one day before class, students handed out small rubber models of preborn babies.”

LifeNews: “The leading Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says there is still a possibility that Republicans will mount a filibuster against pro-abortion Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. She has drawn strong opposition from a number of pro-life organizations that cite her support for abortion, human cloning, and assisted suicide. ‘I wouldn’t take it off the table,’ Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a pro-life Alabama lawmaker, said, according to USA Today.”

Education News: “A new nationwide survey of nearly 3,000 high school students, released today by the Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington, VA, provides a glimpse into what the nation’s future leaders think about American citizenship: what civic values they admire, who their political heroes are, and which of our Founding documents inspire them the most. … 2. WHO ARE THEIR HEROES, PAST AND PRESENT? Making the top five list, in order, were Thomas Jefferson (18 percent), Abraham Lincoln (14 percent), Martin Luther King, Jr. (12 percent), George Washington (10 percent) and Thomas Paine (9 percent).”

ADF Attorney Austin R. Nimocks writing at The Christian Post’s Advancing Religious Liberty blog: “‘I felt like, being a part of this project, that the message was really greater than my relationship is.’ These are the words of Nikki, one of the star characters of Showtime’s new series, The Real L Word, and she is 100 percent correct in her sentiments. While seeking to glorify homosexual behavior and same-sex relationships, The Real L Word provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into today’s equivalent of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. The monster being created? Making our children virtual lab rats through the intentional creation of more and more fatherless families. That’s a message that is quite disturbing. … [T]hese very young kids, when they need a father figure the most, will be subjected to their mother’s new same-sex partner who, as part of her rationale for participating in the show, wants to ‘break stereotypes . . . The bottom line is this–heterosexual sex makes babies, society needs babies, and babies need their mothers and fathers.’”

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “Twin Cities Pride festival attorneys on Wednesday asked for a court order barring evangelist Brian Johnson from distributing Christian literature construed as anti-gay in Loring Park during this weekend’s gay pride event. … Last year, police arrested him when he refused to leave, but charges were dropped. This year he secured an attorney from the Alliance Defense Fund and got Park Board permission to attend. Pride organizers say they don’t mind if Johnson attends, but they don’t want him to distribute his material.”

Rasmussen: “Most Republicans (74%) and unaffiliateds (51%) consider the government to be a threat to individual rights. Most Democrats (64%) regard the government as a protector of rights.”

Religion Clause Blog: “In Holmgren v. State of Minnesota, (MN Ct. App., June 22, 2010, a Minnesota state appellate court held that a former prison chaplain’s First Amendment free expression may have been violated when she was fired for speaking out against a new program being considered by the state which she believed would violate the Establishment Clause.”

Times Colonist: “To help make them feel accepted and welcomed, schools and youth groups across the country are increasingly turning to so-called queer proms. At least a dozen cities, including Halifax, Toronto, Kitchener, Ont., Hamilton, Edmonton and Vancouver, are holding high school graduations for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students.”

Telegraph: “[The divorce ceremony] – a bizarre, but increasingly popular ritual among Japanese couples, who choose to end their marriages with the same pomp and ceremony with which they began them. … Yet with divorce still something of a taboo in Japanese society, the ceremonies have caught on as a way to publicly formalise the separation in a way that is socially acceptable to friends and family.”

Reuters: “Scientists studying swingers — straight couples who regularly swap sexual partners and indulge in group sex at organized meeting — say they have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than prostitutes. Dutch researchers publishing their work in the British Medical Journal . . . ”

Oregonian: “A Northwest Portland psychiatrist who the state has reprimanded for wrongly prescribing drugs says he plans to open a facility in the city and charge fees to help patients end their lives under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act.” | More from Wesley J. Smith at First Things.

BBC: “Youths reportedly shouted ‘Juden Raus’ (Jews Out) as they attacked the dancers of the Chaverim (‘Friends’ in Hebrew) dance troupe last weekend. Police said several Muslim immigrant youths were among the attackers and two youths were being questioned. A German Jewish leader said she feared growing anti-Israeli sentiment.”

The AP omitted the fact that the attackers were Muslim. The only clue given is that it was in an immigrant neighborhood.

Press Association: Muslim youths attack Jewish dancer

ABC: “When kindergarten through fifth grade students return to class at Veterans Memorial Elementary School in Provincetown, Mass., this fall, they’ll be able to ask the school nurse for condoms.”

The Court is also expected to issue its ruling in the 2nd Amendment case, McDonald v. Chicago on Monday.

“. . . this does not foreclose success to the petition signers in their narrower challenge to a second count in their case, which is pending before the district court.”