RNS Quote of the Day, 09/17/2007
From a ROTFLMAO thread on Calguns, an example of really really bad lawyering by the enemy in the DC gun law case (Heller/Parker):
This was not a mistake in the classic sense…. It was a lack of imagining the possible.
Akin and O’Melveny [DC’s attorneys] made the strategic call to narrow the issues to the things they thought had the best chance of being winners (or giving SCOTUS an out)… The didn’t think through what an aggressive counsel might do to the issues left on the table by their strategic narrowing…
What Gura did today was both pwn DC and cement his win in a way that even the scariest bad SCOTUS rulings couldn’t undo.
–Gene Hoffman
Read Gura’s blog post about this here. Read his in-your-face filing here. In essence, he’s taking advantage of DC’s attorneys’ foulup to get the district court to immediately allow DC residents to possess long guns. Sweeeet!
