U.S. SUPREME COURT JURISPRUDENCE: Some gun control proponents argue that the Supreme Court has held the Second Amendment to be a "collective right". Firearms rights proponents assert that the Court has indeed held that the Amendment protects an individual right. This presentation will provide an ...
Crucially, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right, unconnected with service in a militia. 122 years after Presser, the "individual" interpretation of the Second Amendment finally got its day in court and won. The Court'sopinion, written by the l...
Signed into law days after the Supreme Court's Second Amendment decision, New York's new rules requires concealed carry applicants to demonstrate "good moral character" and bans firearms in some"sensitive" spaceslike places of worship, bars, and public parks. Six gun owners in New York and th...
Supreme Courtindividual rightsDistrict of ColumbiaHellerThis article discusses the litigation regarding the Second Amendment currently pending before the Supreme Court. I argue that the narrow issue that is before tSmith, Douglas GSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
The 5th Circuit said the analogues offered by prosecutors during its historical inquiry "fall short," and concluded that law "falls outside the class of firearm regulations countenanced by the Second Amendment." The Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court, whichagreed in late Juneto ...
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, praised the Supreme Court -- where conservatives have a clear majority -- for the ruling, which was described as the widest expansion of gun rights in a decade. "Today, the Supreme Court upheld our Second Amendment right to keep and bear ...
second amendmentThis Essay looks at issues that the Supreme Court can duck - and those that it can't - in deciding the District of Columbia Second Amendment case, D.C. v. HelleReynolds, Glenn HarlanDenning, Brannon PSocial ence Electronic Publishing...
On November 3, 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. Bruen. All eyes are on the Court, as this is the first time in more than 10 years that the justices are examining the Second Amendment protections over self-defense. This case asks ...
The Supreme Court's conservative majority exerted its power across a term marked by major decisions on abortion, the Second Amendment and religious rights.
Robert Barnes