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Sentencing Law and Policy
Spotlighting considerable racial disparities in modern criminal enforcement of gun prohibitions
I came across this notable recent commentary by Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe titled "The very racist history of gun control: The Second Amendment right to keep and bear…
PrawfsBlawg
The Gun, The Ship, and the Pen
Main Thursday, July 29, 2021The Gun, The Ship, and the PenPart of my vacation was spent reading Linda Colley's terrific new book on global constitutionalism. Anyone with an interest in…
Simple Justice
Surprising Friends of The Second Amendment
A few things are relatively uncontroversial. New Yorkers do not like guns. Progressives do not like guns. New York’s public defenders are, politically, very progressive. New York’s public defenders support…
McNees Land Use Blog
Shooting Ranges Are Protected Under the Second Amendment
By James Strong
The Commonwealth Court recently found that a Stroud Township ordinance prohibiting the unauthorized discharge of firearms in the Township did not pass constitutional muster. The constitutionality of the ordinance was…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Coronavirus Update 6-9-2021: No, the COVID-19 vaccine has not killed more people than mass shootings, and it’s not even close
In Miller v. Bonata, a federal district court held that California's 30-plus-year ban on assault weapons violates the Second Amendment. In support of his holding, Judge Roger Benitez made the…
PrawfsBlawg
The Court is Not Worried About Court Packing
Main Wednesday, May 19, 2021The Court is Not Worried About Court PackingI think that's the main takeaway from the certiorari grants on the Second Amendment and abortion. If the Court…
On Point
SCOW rejects 2nd Amendment challenge to “going armed while intoxicated” statute
By Wisconsin State Public Defender
State v. Mitchell L. Christen, 2019AP1767-CR, affirming an unpublished court of appeals decision; 5/4/21, case activity (including briefs) Christen was armed while drunk in his apartment when he threatened to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
After more than a decade, SCOTUS finally grants cert on big Second Amendment carry case
The Supreme Court ruled in Heller in 2008 that the Second Amendment secured the right to keep arms in the home, and then in McDonald applied this right to the…
Criminal
After more than a decade, SCOTUS finally grants cert on big Second Amendment carry case
The Supreme Court ruled in Heller in 2008 that the Second Amendment secured the right to keep arms in the home, and then in McDonald applied this right to the…
The Right Coast
Ninth Circuit: Hawaiian tradition trumps 2nd Amendment on right to carry, or something
Law and Crime calls this decision in Young v Hawaii lengthy and scholarly. My friend and colleague Cam Edwards calls it bizarre at Bearing Arms. I d call it something else…