Another Amicus brief has been filed supporting the Petitioner in the McDonald v. City of Chicago case, resource page here. The Cato Institute and Pacific Legal Foundation filed a brief here.
Their conclusion sums up their position well:
The Slaughter-House Cases was wrong when it was decided. It ignored the fundamental change in constitutional order represented by the Union victory in the Civil War and subsequent amendment to the Constitution. It ignored all relevant legislative, rendered the Privileges or Immunities Clause redundant of the Supremacy Clause, and failed to give effect to all provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. Considerations of stare decisis do not counsel in favor of retraining this plain error in constitutional law. Payne v. Tennesse, 501 U.S. 808, 827-28 (1991). The Slaughter-House Cases should be overruled and the judgment below reversed.
PLF also has a post here.
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