Opening Arguments Archive: Topic: Second Amendment Rights

Key Excerpt: Kyl and Sotomayor on Second Amendment Rights

CQ Transcriptions KYL: Judge, could I return briefly to a series of questions that Senator Feingold asked at the very beginning relating to the Maloney decision relating to the Second Amendment. You had indicated, of course, if that case were...

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Key Excerpt: Feingold and Sotomayor on Second Amendment Rights

CQ Transcriptions FEINGOLD: The question of whether the Second Amendment rights are incorporated in the 14th Amendment's guarantee of due process of law and, therefore, applicable to the states, as you pointed out, was not decided in Heller. And a...

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Key Excerpt: Hatch and Sotomayor on Second Amendment Rights

CQ Transcriptions HATCH: I want to begin here today by looking at your cases in an area that is very important to -- to many of us, and that's the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, and...

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Key Excerpt: Leahy Questions Sotomayor on Second Amendment Rights

CQ Transcriptions LEAHY: Good. Let me (ph) talk to you about another decision that's been talked about, District of Columbia v. Heller. In that one, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment guarantees to Americans the right to keep...

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