In Citizens United vs. FEC, Solicitor General (and current Supreme Court nominee) Elena Kagan essentially argues that a law banning books is OK because the government would never enforce it. Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito disagree and run circles around her intellectually.

Something about this exchange reminds me of those killer whales that playfully bat around seals before finally killing and eating them–

The Windy City would like to “serve as a laboratory” with the “flexibility” to ignore the Second Amendment. But there’s nothing “novel” about that. It’s just another case of the government violating our rights. And since the Supreme Court would never let Chicago ban free speech, establish an official religion, or conduct other “experiments” on the First Amendment, why should the Second Amendment receive any less respect?

It’s time for the Supreme Court to give the entire Bill of Rights its due.