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Public Defenders Back Bruen Decision’s Elimination of a Racist Gun Control Law

By Jennifer Peltz, AP When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, condemnation erupted from liberal leaders and activists. But some public defenders, often allies of progressive…

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Root: Striking Down New York’s Gun Control Laws Would Be a Victory For Criminal Justice Reform

    According to the public defender groups, New York’s [gun control] scheme has had predictably “brutal” consequences for their clients. They have been “stopped, questioned, and frisked,” “forcibly removed” from their homes, locked up…


Liberal Interest Groups Split on the Supreme Court’s Upcoming New York Concealed Carry Case

  On one side is the American Civil Liberties Union and its New York state counterpart, which contend that the state law is justified to protect First Amendment rights in the public sphere. On the…