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Article: Can a Local Washington, D.C. Government Thumb its Nose at the United States Supreme Court and Get Away With It, asks American Gun Rights Dean.
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- August 28, 2008
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Can the local government of Washington, D.C. thumb its nose at a constitutional decision of the United States Supreme Court and get away with it?
"That," says right to self-defense advocate John M. Snyder, "is the question underlying a constitutional crisis brewing now in our Nation's Capital. It's up to Congress to nip this crisis in the bud before its effects spread to a multiplicity of locales and involve a wide range of public issues."
"The nexus of the burgeoning constitutional crisis," says Snyder, "was the refusal of officials of the local Washington, D.C. government to accept fully the June decision of the Supreme Court in the case of District ...