Full scope of the arguments in McDonald v. City of Chicago

Today at 10 a.m, it’s time for the oral arguments on McDonald v. City of Chicago (08-1521) and whether the Second Amendment’s individual right to keep and bear arms should apply (or be “incorporated” against) to state and local governments, through either the Privileges or Immunities Clause or the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In the Heller case, we were able to bring you audio from the arguments, but yesterday afternoon, The Supreme Court refused a request by cable and other broadcast networks to release the audiotape of the Court’s hearing. The argument is scheduled for one hour, starting at 10 a.m.

These podcasts should capture the full scope of  the arguments:

Alan Gura of Gura & Possessky, PLLC, counsel to the Second Amendment Foundation:

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Here is Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute:

Arguing against incorporation – Charles Dyke of Nixon Peabody LLP, representing the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church of Chicago, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, et al.:

Leonard Niehoff of Butzel Long, PC, representing the Anti-Defamation League:

Jon Lowy of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: