Is a law barring domestic abusers from owning guns unconstitutional? SCOTUS to decide
“It is absurd to limit the Constitution’s meaning in 2023 to what was thought over 200 years ago,” writes the UC Berkeley Law School Dean.
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“It is absurd to limit the Constitution’s meaning in 2023 to what was thought over 200 years ago,” writes the UC Berkeley Law School Dean.
The court has a rare opportunity to fix the problem it created without losing face.
Last year, when it struck down New York’s concealed-carry law, the Supreme Court upended how the courts scrutinize gun regulations by creating an unusual new test for them: Their constitutionality must be weighed by whether or not similar laws existed when the Second Amendment was ratified all the way back in 1791.“When the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court in New York S
The Supreme Court is considering how to apply the Second Amendment in United States v. Rahimi, a case about domestic violence and gun rights.
Read the Express-News letters to the editor for May 14.