{"id":10902,"date":"2010-07-13T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2010-07-13T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T22:50:15","slug":"seventh-circuit-revisits-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/07\/seventh-circuit-revisits-the-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Circuit Revisits the Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s another one to file under “no, we don’t want a revolution.”\u00a0 A few days ago, I posted on a new Seventh Circuit\u00a0opinion <\/a>that seemed to adopt a minimalist reading of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Carr v. United States<\/em>.\u00a0 Over a vigorous dissent, the Seventh Circuit reaffirmed the validity of\u00a0pre-Carr <\/em>decisions regarding the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.\u00a0 Now, the Seventh Circuit\u00a0has a new opinion that reaffirms the validity of a gun-control statute, and another\u00a0dissent accuses the court of incorrectly limiting a recent Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n

Last year, I posted on the interesting\u00a0panel decision in United States v. Skoien<\/em><\/a>, in which the Seventh Circuit remanded to the district court for the government to attempt to\u00a0justify 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 922(g) in the face of\u00a0the defendant’s\u00a0Second Amendment challenge.\u00a0 The panel relied heavily on the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller<\/em>.\u00a0 However, the government successfully sought en banc review, and now the en banc court has decided simply to affirm Skoien’s conviction <\/a>without further proceedings.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

To be sure, the court did not go so far as to say that \u00a7 922(g) will withstand all Second Amendment challenges, leaving open the possibility that a defendant with a cleaner record than Skoien might be able to present a successful overbreadth argument.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Judge Sykes nonetheless dissented, objecting to the majority’s reliance on information not supplied by the government through the adversarial process — and thus, as she sees it,\u00a0effectively relieving the government of its burden to justify the application of\u00a0a statute that burdens a fundamental constitutional right.\u00a0 This approach, she contended, “is difficult to reconcile with either the reasoning or the result in Heller<\/em>” (37).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another one to file under “no, we don’t want a revolution.”\u00a0 A few days ago, I posted on a new Seventh Circuit\u00a0opinion that seemed to adopt a minimalist reading of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Carr v. 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