WHAT'S COMING POST- HELLER: "On the heels of the Supreme Court ruling, the NRA and other groups prepare to challenge gun laws in California and other states."

TENNESSEE CONGRESSMAN UNDER INVESTIGATION: "Tennessee Congressman Jim Cooper is under FBI investigation on charges of unauthorized entrance to a cooperative electric trade group's website. That is a rather interesting way of gathering information for congressional hearings."

JIM LINDGREN ON THE DEATH PENALTY AND CHILD RAPE:

Yet the Court shouldn’t talk about following a “national consensus” on an issue on which in 1997 only 31% of the American public agreed with the Court and 65% of the public opposed the Court’s view. The justices should admit that they follow ELITE opinion, not the views and morality of the ordinary public. If they can't go that far, they should at least stop preaching to us about a “national consensus” that is little more than a fig leaf for their own (often quite reasonable) policy preferences.

Indeed. Or we should go whole-hog and just start electing Supreme Court Justices. Then they'd actually have the democratic legitimacy they're claiming with talk of consensus.

TOM MAGUIRE: Score one for David Brooks.

SAYUNCLE ON HELLER: "5-4 was bit too close for comfort in my opinion. I was figuring on 6-3 or 7-2, honestly. Sure, this quiz was pass/fail but we were only one heart attack away, my friends. I hate to say it but that one reason is why I’ll hold my nose, get good and hammered, and pull the lever for John McCain."

GLENN GREENWALD DISCOVERS SOMETHING ABOUT KEITH OLBERMANN that the rest of us already knew. "Strong and righteous words indeed. But that was five whole months ago, when George Bush was urging enactment of a law with retroactive immunity and a lessening of FISA protections. Now that Barack Obama supports a law that does the same thing -- and now that Obama justifies that support by claiming that this bill is necessary to keep us Safe from the Terrorists -- everything has changed. . . . What's much more notable is Olbermann's full-scale reversal on how he talks about these measures now that Obama -- rather than George Bush -- supports them." Do tell. It's as if Olbermann were some sort of dishonest hack or something.

UPDATE: Don Surber:

It’s the Trotskyites vs. the Stalinists.

Like Olbermann, my money is on Stalinists.

I do believe he's right about Olbermann.

MORE THOUGHTS ON HELLER, from Prof. Mike O'Shea. "The imposition by the U.S. government of a U.K.-style system of sweeping gun bans and prohibitions on armed self-defense is now off the table. Such laws are a violation of the U.S. Constitution." Actually, they always were.

HELPFULLY POINTING DAVID ADDINGTON OUT TO Al Qaeda Terrorists. Reader C.J. Burch emails: "If this isn't in a Republican television spot pronto the Republicans deserve to be run out of poltics and replaced with a living party." Don't hold your breath, C.J.

THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: A lawsuit against Chicago's gun control ordinance is filed. PDF of complaint here. (Via NewsAlert ).

MCCLATCHY: Will Obama's shifting stances undermine his true-blue image?

IS YAHOO! manipulating bloggers?

JIM LINDGREN: "I have been reading Justice Breyer’s dissent in Heller. I suspect that it may go down in history as one of the strongest arguments AGAINST balancing tests."

GROTESQUE FACTUAL ERRORS IN STEVENS' HELLER DISSENT: I noted this in an update below, but it deserves its own post. Really, amazingly shoddy work. Did the dissenters -- or their clerks -- even read the things they cited?

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