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They're going not direction we feared. it seems like this is not a case that's going to undermine all of that great progress we've made. >> your supporters inside the courtroom got the same sense as our justice correspondent, putin williams got, that this was not going to be the case that upended any sort of settled law? >> you know, it's hard to know for sure, because really, the court can do, in some senses, what they want. it does sound like they did not focus as much on the merits as they did on the mootness of the case. on the fact that this law has already been repealed, and really court...

Gun regulations. so that's good news. >> this is the first time in roughly a decade, though that the court has even heard a second amendment case, like this one. for folks who haven't been following every twist and turn, what has changed in that decade? >> so much has changed. in the decade since heller, heller struck down a very, very narrow law that prohibited gun ownership in washington, d.c., and since then, courts have upheld hundreds and hundreds of laws that have been challenged on second amendment grounds. and the supreme court itself have actually rejected and refused to hear challeng...

I mean, the big division in a lot of second amendment debates, whether it's in courts or scholarship or just sort of in public discussion, is about the degree to which and the ways in which the right to keep and bear arms extends outside the home. so in that heller case i mentioned from 2008, the holding was officially directed just to a claim to possess a firearm in the home for self-defense. the court didn't have to say clearly and it didn't whether that right extends outside the home. most courts have either held or assumed that it does. but that the government tends to have more authority ...

Campaigns into each other's strongho strongholds. we're live in iowa, we are also live in south carolina, as well. this is the scene in iowa right now. both of those candidates making their pitch. and as we speak right now, the supreme court is hearing arguments on its biggest case on guns in ten years. it's a decision that could have a huge impact on local gun laws going forward. i'm going to talk to a woman who works every day to advocate for new gun laws to reduce gun violence. she spoke on the steps of the high court there just a few minutes ago. we'll talk to her in just a second. but we ...

To bring their own lawyers, the president is really going to be relying on his allies on the judiciary committee to make the case that he is really innocent, that he did nothing wrong, and that this is really democrats being angry about the 2016 election and wanting to unseat a legitimately elected president. and what i think we're going to see in this judiciary hearing committee is really the fireworks are going to be with the lawmakers, from my sources on capitol hill, it sounds as though these are going to be really academics who are going to be laying out in very academic ways how the cons...