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Religion Clause
NY Gun Ban at Places of Worship Violates 2nd Amendment
In Hardaway v. Nigrelli, (WD NY, Oct. 20, 2022), a New York federal district court issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of the provision in New York law that prohibits…
PrawfsBlawg
We are all judicial supremacists now
Main Wednesday, October 19, 2022We are all judicial supremacists nowJacob Sollum at Reason does not think much of New York and New Jersey exercising judicial departmentalism on gun regulation by…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
The New World of Constitutional Appellate Advocacy
Appellate decisions may decide a dispute between opposing parties and articulate a rule of law, but they often create new issues that can flood the courts. The Supreme Court’s newly…
Simple Justice
Muskets Without Numbers
Whether its purpose is to shine a light on the untenability of the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision or it’s just another example of district court judges trying their best to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable new district court opinion strikes down federal serial number law but upholds felon possession ban applying <em>Bruen</em>
A helpful reader sent me this morning an interesting new federal district court opinion concerning Second Amendment limits on a couple of federal criminal laws. Here is how the opinion…
Criminal
Notable new district court opinion strikes down federal serial number law but upholds felon possession ban applying <em>Bruen</em>
A helpful reader sent me this morning an interesting new federal district court opinion concerning Second Amendment limits on a couple of federal criminal laws. Here is how the opinion…
Simple Justice
Tuesday Talk*: What Does The Second Amendment Protect?
President Biden, in the midst of inflation, potential recession and a stock market that will make you sad, twitted what might appear to be a surprising, and silly, position. It's…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Black Second Amendment Activists Call for Closed Borders in Austin, Texas March
VIDEO THREAD: Today activists with @EGPGunClub held an armed, Black "Second Amendment Unity Walk" in Austin, Texas, where they also had demands including reparations for descendants of enslaved people and…
Criminal
District Court declares § 922(n), which criminalizes a person under indictment from receiving a firearm, to be unconstitutional
A few months ago, in a series of posts right after the Supreme Court's big Second Amendment decision Bruen (basics here), I suggested that a number of broad federal criminal firearm…
Sentencing Law and Policy
District Court declares § 922(n), which criminalizes a person under indictment from receiving a firearm, to be unconstitutional
A few months ago, in a series of posts right after the Supreme Court's big Second Amendment decision Bruen (basics here), I suggested that a number of broad federal criminal firearm…