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Program: Rethinking the Second Amendment: The Chicago Gun Case and the Future of Gun Rights

Presented by National Constitution Center at National Constitution Center

May 5, 2010

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Join David Strauss, the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and one of the nation's leading constitutional law scholars, and veteran Supreme Court correspondent Lyle Denniston for a conversation about one of the most important and controversial cases before the Supreme Court this term: the Chicago gun-rights case. At issue in McDonald v. Chicago is whether the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental constitutional privilege – like freedom of speech, press and religion – that can be invoked by individuals against the actions of state and local governments as well as the federal government. As the briefs start coming to the Court for the case, a battle is brewing over the so-called "incorporation doctrine," which has applied most, but not all, guarantees of the federal Bill of Rights to state and local governments.