In response to my party-pooping comments about Heller, the D.C. gun case, Lincoln Idolator and Prim & Proper “Libertarian” Tim Sandefur turns up his nose at Gutzman’s idea that D.C. is like a “pseudo-state” and thus is not subject to limitations in the Bill of Rights. The argument is that if D.C. is the entity that is legislating, it is not Congress legislating, therefore limits on Congressional power do not apply; for this reason D.C. is more like a quasi- or pseudo-state. Curiously, as I noted in The Institute for Justice on the Wonderful Congress of 1866, in the April … Continue reading Heller and the States