Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX-R), Senator Jon Tester (MT-D), Representative Mark Souder (IN-R), Representative Mike Ross (AR-D), et al.
Amici Curiae
Paul D. Clement, Counsel of Record Paul D. Clement is a partner with the law firm King & Spalding, where he heads the firm’s national appellate practice. He is also a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and served as U.S. Solicitor General under President George W. Bush from June 2005 to June 2008. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 23, 2009. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), this Court recognized the individual right to keep and bear arms memorialized in the Second…