Bigstock [ED: This is the second in a three-part series. Click here to read Part 1] By John Velleco The first article in this three-part series recounted the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent, and deeply disappointing,…
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool) And so it continues. Twelve years after Heller, we are in the exact same place. The government cannot ban the possession…
The massive bronze doors of the Supreme Court are seen in Washington, early Monday, June 15, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) From the National Shooting Sports Foundation: The NSSF, the firearm industry trade association, expressed…
Courtesy Jeff Hulbert From Alan Gottlieb: The Supreme Court’s refusal to take a Second Amendment Foundation case falls squarely at the feet of Chief Justice John Roberts. He owes every gun owner in the United…
Courtesy Jeff Hulbert By LKB Well, it has happened. Rather than the hoped-for clarification of the Second Amendment and the resolution of numerous Circuit Court splits, this morning the Supreme Court denied cert on all…
Dick Heller signs an autograph outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 26, 2008, after the court ruled that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices’…
Bigstock Last week — a holiday week — the Supreme Court relisted all ten Second Amendment cases that are awaiting cert decisions. The Washington Post’s editorial board then took a preemptive shot in the Court’s…
Courtesy Jeff Hulbert By LKB This morning, the Supreme Court released its orders from last week’s conference. There was some hope that based on Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence and the Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch dissent in New York State…
By Microstamper at en.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, Link On Monday, the justices, by a 6-3 vote, dismissed the [New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York] case as moot. The same…
Bigstock By LKB As was reported earlier, the Supreme Court has punted today in NYSR&PA v City of New York, finding in a short, unsigned per curiam opinion that New York’s last-minute gamesmanship rendered the case…