TAPPED is giving me the credit (via my scholarly work, not InstaPundit) for bringing about the Justice Department’s new position on the Second Amendment. I think they exaggerate my importance (Larry Tribe, no right-winger, basically agrees with me on this) but that’s okay. If you’re interested, here’s a link to one of my scholarly pieces on the subject, and here’s another. And here’s a shorter, non-scholarly piece that I did for Legal Affairs, the new legal magazine edited by Lincoln Caplan and published by Yale Law School.

UPDATE: By the way, if you read this article from TAP in August, which is quoted in the TAPPED item above, you find this now-hilarious statement:

Another article, by Emory University’s Michael Bellesiles–whose Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture won the coveted Bancroft Prize for American History and Diplomacy last year–accused Ashcroft’s intellectual allies of engaging in quotation hunting rather than taking on “the hard and time-consuming task of archival research.”

Maybe Bellesiles should have done a little more of that “archival research” himself.