{"id":5976,"date":"2010-07-02T19:32:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T23:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2010-07-02T19:32:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T23:32:46","slug":"chicago-the-city-council-that-never-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5976\/chicago-the-city-council-that-never-sleeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago: The City Council That Never Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never underestimate the speed and focus possible when the politicos in charge of government set their minds to getting something done.\u00a0 Less than four days after the United States Supreme Court said that the U.S. Constitution\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Amendment applied to states and municipalities like Chicago, the Second City\u2019s aldermen rose to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they responded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/cityhall\/2458402,new-chicago-gun-law-passed-070210.article\" target=\"_blank\">deliberately passing a law to discriminate against gun owners<\/a> to the maximum extent the Constitution <em>might<\/em> allow.\u00a0 (Lost amid most of the coverage this week on the result in <em>McDonald v. City of Chicago <\/em>is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoguncase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/mcdonaldopinion08-1521.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Alito\u2019s plurality opinion<\/a> announces only that the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Amendment right to bear arms applies to Chicago.\u00a0 It leaves to lower courts the careful work of figuring out which gun control laws are in fact unconstitutional.)<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s try a mind experiment.\u00a0 Suppose a controversial Supreme Court opinion came down applying a universal right guaranteed in the Constitution against states and municipalities that had to do with, oh, let\u2019s say\u2026racial discrimination.\u00a0 If the losing city in the decision responded in less than four days with an ordinance that deliberately tried to see how far it could still discriminate and pass constitutional muster, would that city council be lauded for its activism?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there\u2019s a North Coast bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never underestimate the speed and focus possible when the politicos in charge of government set their minds to getting something done.\u00a0 Less than four days after the United States Supreme Court said that the U.S. Constitution\u2019s 2nd Amendment applied to states and municipalities like Chicago, the Second City\u2019s aldermen rose to the challenge. Unfortunately, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,1511,1045,549,221,220,995],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-chicago","tag-city-council","tag-discrimination","tag-gun-rights","tag-mcdonald-v-city-of-chicago","tag-second-amendment","tag-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}