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Second Amendment
Five items Congress deleted from Madison’s original Bill of Rights
When James Madison spoke to the First Congress he proposed nearly 20 amendments as a Bill of Rights, and not the 10 we all know…
Supreme Court’s new gun test gets airing in a domestic violence case
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new test for weighing the constitutionality of gun regulations comes face-to-face on Tuesday with the…
Supreme Court Preview of the 2023-2024 Term
On October 2, 2023, the Supreme Court starts a new term as it considers another round of significant cases that could have a…
Supreme Court culture war rulings keep lawsuits flowing
The summer of 2023 has been an unusual season of fallout from recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions about guns, abortion, religion,…
State courts, voters increasingly turning to state constitutions to protect rights
Nearly 50 years ago, Justice William Brennan Jr. urged lawyers and others to look to state constitutions for more protection of…
On this day, a divided Supreme Court rules on the Second Amendment
On June 28, 2010, a deeply divided Supreme Court upholds gun-ownership rights within homes on a national basis, expanding on a…
With abortion and guns, the Supreme Court ties the hands of federal courts
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority struck down New York’s concealed carry gun law and revoked women’s…
When the term ends, what will you think of your Supreme Court?
The U.S. Supreme Court may wrap up its term in the next two weeks and many in the nation are watching closely for potential…
Significant Supreme Court Cases Remaining in the 2021-2022 Term
With the Supreme Court approaching the start of summer, the justices will likely decide the court’s major remaining cases by…
A Second Amendment sequel premieres next week in the U.S. Supreme Court
With the Mississippi and Texas abortion cases on the docket now, the U.S. Supreme Court’s current term will be defined by what…
