D.C. v. Heller
Jun. 26th, 2008 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorrowmonkeyMy goodness but Scalia can really write... here's a bit that I particularly liked:
How often do you get to see "grotesque" used in a Supreme Court opinion?
The word "Arms" would have two different meanings at once: "weapons" (as the object of "keep") and (as the object of "bear") one-half of an idiom. It would be rather like saying "He filled and kicked the bucket" to mean "He filled the bucket and died." Grotesque.
How often do you get to see "grotesque" used in a Supreme Court opinion?
