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Gun Rights
October 30, 2024
Matt Ford
Hawaii Takes Aim at the Supreme Court’s Most Chaotic Gun Rights Ruling
Can the Aloha State defy the Roberts court on a controversial Second Amendment decision? They may soon find out.
June 21, 2024
Matt Ford
Is This the End of the Clarence Thomas Court?
In Friday’s ruling on domestic violence and the Second Amendment, the other eight justices rejected his approach to originalism.
June 21, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Clarence Thomas Says Domestic Abusers Should Have Guns
Thomas whined that his Supreme Court colleagues had misinterpreted one of his previous opinions in their latest ruling.
April 24, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Insane Moment Tennessee Republicans Voted to Put Guns in Schools
State Republican lawmakers cut off debate to force the bill through.
March 25, 2024
Tori Otten
Minnesota Republican Opposes Gun Safety Bill Because Murderous Cows
Wait until you hear this state senator’s argument for killing the legislation.
March 19, 2024
Matt Ford
The NRA Is About to Notch Another Legal Victory at the Supreme Court
At oral arguments on Monday, the court took a dim view of the heavy-handed way that Andrew Cuomo and the State of New York attempted to crack down on the gun rights group.
November 6, 2023
Matt Ford
A Big Firearms Case Is About to Land in the Supreme Court’s Lap
A lower court split over bump stocks—a device that enabled the deadliest mass shooting in American history—is sending fresh cases steaming toward the high court.
September 18, 2023
Matt Ford
Hunter Biden’s Best Allies Could Be the Supreme Court’s Conservatives
The court’s right-wing bloc has lately applied a “history-and-tradition” test to Second Amendment cases—and it might help the younger Biden avoid jail time.
June 30, 2023
Prem Thakker
This Has Been a Very Bad Week for the Supreme Court
Leaving 43 million people in debt and legalizing anti-gay discrimination apparently wasn’t nearly enough.
June 6, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s June of Doom Is Upon Us
The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.
October 1, 2021
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Next Big Gun Rights Case Has Allies Trading Fire
Two liberal interest groups—the ACLU and a coalition of public defenders—have waded into the high court’s upcoming concealed-carry decision, but on opposite sides.
April 26, 2021
Matt Ford
Will the Supreme Court Let Americans Carry Guns for Any Reason?
After a decade of silence on the Second Amendment, the justices are taking up a New York concealed-carry case. The ruling could bring seismic changes to America.
June 29, 2020
Adam Weinstein
Standing Their Ground in Well-Manicured Yards
The Trump presidency has been a literal call to arms for excitable whites who view nonwhite people as inherent threats.
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