The confusion and apparent hypocrisy stem from an oversimplification of the Second Amendment and its application in the modern day. The exact wording of the Second Amendment gives Americans the right ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Supreme Court has made a mess of the law concerning the Second ...
The Justice Department recently established a "Second Amendment Section" within its Civil Rights Division. On its face, that move is a welcome development for defenders of the constitutional right to ...
The Second Amendment occupies a curious place in American legal history. It has been sitting right there in the Bill of Rights since those amendments were first added to the Constitution in 1791. Yet ...
This past Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez, the Second Amendment case out of Hawaii in which the Aloha State is defying the Constitution and claiming it can ban ...
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out how two mutually exclusive principles can both be true at the same time. One principle is that all Second ...
Now that the Supreme Court appears to have filled out its oral argument docket for the 2025-26 term (unless it opts to fast-track a case), it seems an apt time to survey the Second Amendment landscape ...
From Alaska Court of Appeals Judge Timothy Terrell's concurrence Wednesday in Ivyories v. State: I write separately to set out my view that the Second Amendment does not permit persons convicted of ...
Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School. The contrast in ...