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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

SCOTUSBlog

Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen. In District of Columbia v. June, 2022).

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New Mexico Loses Another Key Fight Over Ban on Concealed Weapons in Public Parks

JonathanTurley

The rejection of the challenge to the injunction suggests that the appellate court is equally unimpressed by the legal and historical arguments put forward by the state. Grisham’s original plan was designed for maximum political impact, but little chance of legal success. However, their legal losses met with political success.

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Court to hear battle over animal welfare, the dormant commerce clause — and the price of bacon

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The challengers, two groups that represent farmers and pork producers, contend that the law “will transform the pork industry nationwide,” while California and its supporters insist that the impact will be more limited.

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in FDA Vaping Challenge and Three Other Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

The issue before the Court is whether the Hobbs Act required the district court in this case to accept the FCCs legal interpretation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The post SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in FDA Vaping Challenge and Three Other Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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SCOTUS Adds Two Additional Gun Rights Cases to Docket

Constitutional Law Reporter

In 2017, DFS opened an investigation into the legality of certain NRA-endorsed insurance programs that provided coverage for losses caused by licensed firearm use, even in circumstances where the insured intentionally killed or injured someone or otherwise engaged in intentional wrongdoing. “A

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Morrison: Time to Give DC Residents A Vote in Congress

JonathanTurley

I recently discussed the Supreme Court’s affirmance of a decision rejecting constitutional arguments that the District of Columbia is entitled to a vote in Congress. I have repeatedly testified and written on the constitutional barriers to such a vote absent statehood. I was delighted when he accepted.

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Locked and Loaded: Supreme Court is Ready for a Showdown on the Second Amendment

JonathanTurley

In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. The briefs filed in the case include groups such the Cato Institute , which directly confronted the court about it being legally absent without leave on gun rights for more than a decade. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v.

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