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Great website:JerryKopel.com. My
father's essays on Colorado and national politics, based on his 22
years of service as a Colorado State Representative.
Kopel speech at Independence Institute ATF Party, on the culture
of responsible gun use vs. Hollywood's destructive culture of
misuse. Aug. 11, 2012. 17 minutes.
Uncovering anti-Israel
Propaganda with Philippe Karsenty. French media critic and elected official
Philippe Karsenty joins Dave Kopel to discuss how one of the biggest
anti-semitic hoaxes of all time was uncovered. In 2004, Mr. Karsenty set in
motion a nearly decade long legal battle to blow the cover off a French TV
station's deliberate hoax involving footage of a dying boy named Muhammad
al-Durrah. The footage was shown on national TV and helped perpetuate
anti-Jewish and anti-American terrorism for years to come. Aug. 16, 2012. 31
minutes.
C-Span coverage of Independence Institute's 10th annual
Alcohol, Tobbaco & Firearms Party. Opening remarks by Jon
Caldara. 17 minute speech by Kopel on Second Amendment
issues. Keynote speech by David Martosko (Daily Caller) on
nannyism. Aug. 11, 2012. 44 mins.
Colorado
Inside Out. Romney and Obama battle for Colorado. Mental
health of Aurora murderer. Aug. 10, 2012.
Postgame:
Univ. of Colo. lobbyists have other clients.
Colorado Inside Out.
Aurora
murders, forest service wildfire report. July 27, 2012.
Postgame: Community
reaction to the murders.
Will James Holmes get
the Death Penalty? Colorado Theater Shooter Faces
Death, Says Attorney. China National Central TV (CCTV),
re-aired by Jewish News One. July 27, 2012.
PBS News Hour.
July 23, 2012. Kopel appears at 4:04, at start of a 10
minute segment.
Colorado
Inside-Out. Patricia Calhoun, Mike Littwin, April
Washington, and Kopel discuss the Aurora murders. July 20,
2012. 27 mins.
Postgame:
more on the murders.
Kopel and Piers Morgan agree: Thursday would have been
the better day for a gun control debate. CNN. July 19, 2012.
Transcript.
Coverage by Newsbusters,
and by
Irish Times. CNN Reliable Sources. Howard Kurtz bemoans "a troubling
thing that television does," namely the rush to "turn such
an atrocity into ideological fodder while the victims are
still being treated." As an example, plays Morgan/Kopel
interchange, with Morgan insisting a gun control debate must
take place on the night of the crime. July 22, 2012.
Transcript.
Video.
Colorado Inside-Out.
1912 Time
Machine episode. July 6, 2012.
Patty Calhoun as Molly Brown, and Kevin Flynn as George Creel.
Obamacare decision explained.
Excerpts from
Kopel speech to Liberty on the Rocks, Louisville,Colorado. July 9,
2012:
Amicus
brief in Woollard v. Gallagher (4th Circuit), on
right to bear arms in Maryland. On behalf of International Law
Enforcement Educators & Trainers Association; International
Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Inc., Prof.
Clayton Cramer, and the Independence Institute. Aug. 2012.
Analysis of Supreme Court
decision in NFIB v. Sebelius.
Victory in the Colorado Supreme Court! The Court
unanimously rules that the University of Colorado may not
segregate itself from persons who under Colorado state law are
licensed to carry a handgun for lawful defense "everywhere in
the state."
Kopel's
amicus brief
for the County Sheriffs of Colorado in Students for
Concealed Carry on Campus v. Regents of the University of of
Colorado.
Individual mandate: Independence Institute
amicus brief in HHS v. Florida Supreme Court case.
Argues that the individual mandate cannot be justified by the
Necessary and Proper clause.
Medicaid mandate:
Independence Institute
amicusbrief in Florida v. HHS, before the
US Supreme Court. Argues that the Obamacare Medicaid mandate
(states must drastically expand Medicaid eligibility, or lose
all federal matching funds for Medicaid) violates the
Constitution.
Amicus brief
in People v. Aguilar, currently before the Supreme
Court of Illinois. Professors Michael O'Shea, Nicholas Johnson,
and Kopel argue that Illinois's complete prohibition of
defensive carry in public places violates the Second Amendment.
Amicus brief for the Independence Institute in Kerr v.
Hickenlooper (D. Colo.). Rebuts plaintiffs' claim that
direct democracy, such as referenda and initiatives, is contrary
to the Republican Form of Government clause of the U.S.
Constitution.
Podcast
by II Senior Fellow Rob Natelson on the brief.
Amicus brief for the International Law Enforcement Educators
and Trainers Association, and the Independence Institute, in
Peruta v. San Diego (9th Circuit). Details why the carrying
of an unloaded handgun--which can only be loaded under
"imminent" threat--is insufficient to effectuate the
constitutional right of armed self-defense. Also details police
interests in encouraging concealed carry rather than open carry.
Includes numerous short videos to illustrate the brief's
descriptions of how guns are loaded, and how they are deployed
in an emergency.
Weapons
Laws of the Russian Federation. Independence Institute
Issue Paper number 7-2012. May 2012. By Margot van Loon. Full
translation of the statutes into English.
Bad News for John Marshall.
121 Yale Law Journal Online 529
(2012).With Gary S. Lawson. Why Obamacare advocates are
wrong to claim that finding the mandate unconstitutional will
wreck modern constitutional law.
Colombia's National Law of Firearms and Explosives.
Full translation of the Colombian statutes, along with
historical and narrative explanation. Independence Institute
Issue Paper no. 3-2011. By Jonathan Edward Shaw.
Bad News for Professor Koppelman: The Incidental
Unconstitutionality of the Individual Mandate. 121 Yale Law
Journal Online 267 (2011). With Gary Lawson.
HTML. PDF.
“Health
Laws of Every Description”: John Marshall’s Ruling on a Federal Health Care
Law. 12 Engage (no. 1, June
2011): 49-54. With
Robert G. Natelson.
How Many Global Deaths from
Arms? Reasons to Question the 740,000 Factoid being used to Promote
the Arms Trade Treaty.5 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty
672
(2010). With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen.
Commerce in the Commerce Clause: A Response to Jack Balkin.
1109 Michigan Law Review First Impressions 55 (2010). With Robert G.
Natelson.
In Congress and
Legislatures
When did the Independence Institute explain that Obamacare
was probably unconstitutional? Senior Fellow Rob Natelson on
Jan. 23, 2010. Research Director Dave Kopel on
March 22, 2010 (tax power), and
April 2, 2010 (commerce power, constitutional
structure). Here is the
video
of Kopel's April 28, 2010, debate with former Colorado
Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky, who had
announced, "I
believe that the lawsuit stands little chance of success,”
and "The mechanism chosen by Congress to enforce the
requirement of health insurance is not unusual."
Testimony
on D.C. Council's proposed revision to the District's gun
control laws. Kopel argues against a provision which
excessively discriminates against people with visual
impairments. The testimony also critiques D.C.'s unusual
system of long gun registration. Feb. 13, 2012.
Kopel testified on Nov. 17 before the U.S. Senate
subcommittee
on Crime and Terrorism regarding S. 463, SenatorSchumer's
bill to vastly expand the number of people prohibited from
owning or temporarily possessing a firearm. 29-page
written testimony.
Video of subcommittee hearing. Kopel's 5 minute prepared
remarks begin at 72:41. At 103:40, there is a Q&A with
Senator Grassley, with leads to follow-up questions with
Senator Schumer, in which Kopel explains to Schumer what the
Schumer bill actually does. Kopel
discusses the bill on NRA News. Media coverage:
NPR,
ABC,
Governing, Albany
Times Union.
Kopel testified on Sept. 13 before the U.S. House
subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security,
regarding H.R. 822, which would set up a national system of
interstate reciprocity for concealed handgun carry permits.
Kopel's 24-page written
testimony.
Video of the subcommittee hearing. Cato Institute
podcast with Kopel on the issue.
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