D.C. Still Fucking Shit Up

Despite having elected the hottest mayor this side of Gavin Newsom, D.C. is poised to fuck something else up. Their brief to the Supreme Court advocating to keep their handgun ban is due on Friday, but the Acting D.C. Attorney General, Peter Nickles, just fired the guy who basically wrote it. Alan Morrison wrote the 15,000 word brief that delves into what the founding fathers really meant by that whole "right to bear arms" thingie in the Bill of Rights, but won't be arguing it before the Supreme Court in a couple of months because his last day is Friday. Nickles, by the way, is a good buddy of Fenty's parents and ousted his predecessor in the AG's chair inside of a couple of months after spending time as Fenty's general counsel. He'll be arguing the case himself, now, naturally, despite his horror of publicity and television cameras and interviews. Oh, Adrian. Sometimes just because an old lawyer really wants to do something doesn't mean he ought to get to, every cute paralegal and young female lawyer in this city knows that. [ Washington Post ]