When people say the Second Amendment should be abolished because it was “written for muskets,” they’re ignoring both history and logic. If we applied that reasoning across the Constitution, we’d also ...
The Supreme Court’s preferred method of interpreting the Constitution is originalism, which requires judges to abide by the original public meaning of the constitutional text. This is often more ...
J. Joel Alicea, "Bruen Was Right," 174 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025), sets forth a comprehensive defense of the text-history approach and rejection of means-scrutiny set forth in Justice Clarance ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (S and S Imaging via Shutterstock) Now that the Supreme Court appears to have filled out its oral argument docket for the 2025-26 ...
"Applying the Text and History Methodology to Looming Second Amendment Battles After Rahimi" was the topic of a session on November 16 at the Federalist Society's 2024 National Lawyers Convention. You ...
Gun Owners Radio host Michael Schwartz opened the conversation with a simple premise: Knife Rights v. Bonta is every bit a Second Amendment case as the gun lawsuits you’re used to hearing about. He ...
The Supreme Court is set to convene Monday to hear a Second Amendment dispute over a federal law that bars unlawful drug users from having firearms.
In his latest Guns & Gadgets video, Jared Yanis starts with a challenge that sounds simple but carries a sharp edge: if the Second Amendment protects “the right of the people” to keep arms, what were ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since 1968, Congress has prohibited gun possession by illegal drug users, a provision that affects millions of peaceful Americans ...
The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution doesn’t just say Congress shall not infringe the right to “keep and bear Arms.” It specifically says that right exists in order to maintain “a well ...
Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School. The contrast in ...