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Out of the gun lobby playbook. >> laura: i mean, again, this is the most facile way of looking at case law. you know what brett wrote in the case? >> i have read the opinion several times. >> laura: it's not our task is to apply the constitution regardless of whether the result is one we agree with as a matter of first principle or policy. that was a 2011 case following from heller. he is applying the heller case. the fact that they don't like ar-15s, which are one of the most commonly owned guns in the united states, that's fine. california has rules against it but as a matter of constitution...

Comes to these social gender issues. but if he gets replaced by a hardline social conservative, it is -- the democratic leadership will have hell to pay. they cannot let this happen. they have to play hardball. they've got to do exactly to the other side what mitch mcconnell did to them, play hardball and win. they must prevent the republican-controlled 1234 republican-controlled senate to pick another justice on this court. look at the decision starting with bush/gore. the heller case where everybody in the country can have the biggest country they can buy. the case on citizens united where t...

Welcome back to "hardball." justice anthony kennedy has arguably been the most influential justice of recent years. decades. sometimes he sided with the conservatives like in bush v gosh, citizens unites and the heller case on guns overturning washington, d.c.'s handgun ban back then. he advanced progressive causes. perhaps his greatest legacy will be his deciding vote in the 2015 ruling that struck down bans nationwide on same-sex marriage. city wrote it would misunderstand these men and women who say they disrespect the idea of marriage. their plea is they respect it so deeply they seek to f...

>> former assistant prosecutor and practice criminal defense, this will be constitutional law is i say that because we have some precedent that would is not legally binding in the second circuit and ninth circuit. in those cases the circuit courts have found california, connecticut and new york laws that also been over 10 rounds is constitutional under immediate scrutiny. that is what i anticipate happening with this case and third circuit. shannon: i want to play with the governor had to say at the bill signing for these various laws. here is what he said. >>, cumberlands of, common sense gun...

Opportunity to stay the 10 rounds law and justice kennedy's opinion did not. so that is all we heard from the supreme court on that. they need to step up and clarify this for the nation. jillian: do you think they will? they turned away a lot of appeals that would answer these questions, justice thomas writing a dissent said they treat the second amendment like second-rate or second-tier constitutional right. it should be on par with all the rest of them. >> the supreme court has not taken up any case since heller in 2008, they need to, they have turned down a number of challenges recently and...