Re your opening item: Madison County, IL, is one of the two counties in the country (the other is its neighbor, St. Clair County) which are Mecca (sorry, non-terrorist Muslims) for all plaintiff's personal injury lawyers. Judges are elected, campaigning is vigorous in some cases (with lots of campaign contributions, mostly from the lawyers that appear before the judges,) and on the whole it's not a place known for the best and brightest amongst the judiciary. To learn that there's judge in Madison County who is prepared to order a party to violate both state and federal law is disappointing, but not surprising.

Sliiight correction. SB 357, the serialization bill, was basically written by Bill Lockyer, and submitted by Senator Joseph Dunn. Koretz is an assemblyman, and his bill, the one that would require semi-autos certified for sale after 2007 to imprint characters on the casing, is AB 352.

This, coupled with the Davis-signed magazine disconnect bill, is why I rushed into buying the guns I want.

I'm fairly confident that Schwarzenegger will veto 357, and probably 352. However, I worry instead that it will help the Democrats defeat him in 2006. After that, God help us all.

Damn Jeff this is an excellent round up.
Where do you find the time to research and write all this? Good work.

Thanks very much, Raven, I appreciate it.

It's interesting to note that the shotgun Senator Kerry was toting for his big duck hunt would have been banned if legislation had passed which he himself fully endorsed (and probably helped sponsor, although I'm not sure on that). Go figure.