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Biden Must Protect US Citizens From International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court—seen here May 26, 2016, speaking to reporters at the U.N. in New York—is investigating U.S. officials from the George W. Bush administration for alleged abuse of detainees in Afghanistan. The U.S. rejects the court's jurisdiction as the United States is not party to the Rome Statute. (Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/ LightRocket/Getty Images) Commentary By Steven Groves is the Margaret Thatcher Fellow in Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom....

Biden administration rules expected in the next week or so Share Copy A federal appeals court has overturned a district court order preventing plans for 3D-printed guns from being shared online. In a ruling [PDF] on Tuesday, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction obtained in March 2020 by 22 states and the District of Columbia that blocked a State Department rule change removing 3D-printed guns and associated digital files from the US Munitions List, which enumerates controlled weaponry. The decision means that 3D-printed guns and the digital blueprints to make the...

Here's more from Courthouse News Service on the divided panel of judges.  In a 25-page opinion, U.S. Circuit Judges Jay Bybee, a George W. Bush appointee, and Ryan Nelson, a Donald Trump appointee, concluded that courts lack authority to review the challenged rule changes. They found a 1976 law, the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, and its subsequent amendments forbid judicial review of State Department decisions on what is considered a "defense article" subject to regulation. "Because Congress expressly precluded review of the relevant agency actions here, we v...

One of us is a police leader who headed police agencies in three cities, including twice in New York City, successfully reducing violent crime in each venue. The other is a lifelong public policy advocate seeking ways to reduce violence, including having helped lead the successful fights to pass the Brady Bill, ban on assault weapons and ban on large magazines. We have both worked on many different violent crime issues, and we have worked together in different cities in the United States and in Latin America.

New York is among eight states that limit who has the right to carry a weapon in public. The others are: California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.  In the rest of the country, gun owners have little trouble legally carrying their weapons when they go out. Paul Clement, representing challengers to New York's permit law, said the court should use the case to settle the issue once and for all. "Thus, the nation is split, with the Second Amendment alive and well in the vast middle of the nation, and those same rights disregarded near the coasts," Clement...