Justice Kennedy thinks D.C. residents need protection—from
grizzlies.  Justice Kennedy thinks D.C. residents need
protection—from grizzlies.  Oral argument from the court. March
18 2008 7:31 PM  Bearing Arms … Against Bears  Justice Kennedy
thinks D.C. residents need protection—from grizzlies.  Is the
D.C. gun law constitutional?  With all due respect to those who
complain that the justices on the Supreme Court are too
secretive, and for those who wish, perhaps, that David Souter
was more like David "West Side Days Inn" Paterson, oral argument
today in District of Columbia v. Heller offers up a bounty of
alarming personal revelations. The least of which is that judges
are completely political. But who knew that a case testing the
scope of the Second Amendment's "right to bear arms" would smoke
out a secret side of Justice Anthony Kennedy? A side so
intensely protective of his right to self-defense that he
makes—as I count—four separate references to some mythical
"remote settler" who—at the time of the framin