Belligerati

I’ve been making the point in my personal life that  your interpretation of the Constitution shouldn’t always be what you also happen to think is good policy. If it does, you don’t really have a theory of constitutional law so much as just a theory that the constitution really doesn’t mean anything at all.
Today the NY Times has an Op-Ed: The Second Amendment’s Reach where they advocate the expansion of gun rights because it upholds the principle of integration of the bill of rights into state law (States can’t disobey the bill of rights either). They do so even though it has been their clear position that expanding gun rights is a bad public policy. This is the first time I recall them analyzing constitutional law in a way that puts legal principle ahead of policy preferences.  I wanted to recognize a good thing when I saw it.