Chicago To Continue to Ignore the Constitution

Good.  Looks like another opportunity for some case law. 

Chicago Police will continue to enforce the city’s handgun ban and firearm registration laws while lawyers fight the pro-gun lobby in federal court.

The National Rifle Association and the Illinois State Rifle Association filed federal lawsuits to shoot down Chicago’s gun laws after the U.S. Supreme Court voided the District of Columbia’s handgun ban last month.

City Corporation Counsel Mara Georges told a City Council committee Thursday that she’s prepared to fight those lawsuits all the way to the Supreme Court.

“Chicago’s gun ordinance was not invalidated by the . . . decision. Three prior Supreme Court decisions have found that the Second Amendment does not apply to states and municipalities,” Georges said. “The decision did not change that case law.”

Georges said she’s confident that the U.S. District Court will dismiss the gun lobby lawsuit challenging Chicago’s existing laws.

Consider the utter absurdity of the statement that I bolded.  Replace “Second Amendment” with any other amendment and the statement is lunacy.  Can you imagine if the cops walked into my house without a warrant and without my permission and just said, “oh, the Fourth Amendment?  It doesn’t apply to West Bend.”  Or if Wisconsin decided to forbid women from voting under the reasoning that the Nineteenth Amendment doesn’t apply here.  It’s ridiculous, which is why Chicago is going to spend a lot of money of lawyers to lose their case. 

Hat tip Of Arms and the Law via Dad29.