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District of Columbia v. Heller: Scalia’s Majority Opinion
Here’s a quick (and, given its 64 pages, necessarily highly selective) summary of Justice Scalia’s opinion for a 5-member majority in District of Columbia v. Heller, invalidating D.C.’s ...
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Pressed on Heller, Gorsuch says it is ‘the law of the land’
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, pressed Gorsuch on the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v.Heller, in which the justices ruled 5-4 to ...
National Review16y
District of Columbia v. Heller
I’ll summarize the opinions soon (beyond what I’ve done here), but I’d like to highlight that the Court does not rule on the question (not presented by the case before it) whether the Second ...
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Supreme Court punts on fixing ‘state of disarray’ over gun statute in case of man who shipped firearms hidden in deep fryers
A three-judge panel of the circuit court ruled that Bruen reinforced the holding of District of Columbia v. Heller — which said that full gun rights extend only to “law-abiding, responsible ...
A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns
But Bruen left in place a previous legal rule, first announced in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), which permits the ...