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Sotomayor's Decision in the Second Amendment Case

July 14, 2009

     Here is a more complete analysis of the Second Circuit's decision earlier this year in Maloney v. Cuomo , the Second Amendment case in which Judge Sotomayor participated.

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Why People Disagree About the Meaning of the Constitution: Intratextual Arguments

October 7, 2008

     One way of divining the meaning of the Constitution is to treat it as a dictionary or better yet a codex – as if you were faced with deciphering a large block of hieroglyphics with only internal clues to work with.

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More Post-Heller Wrangling in D.C.

September 15, 2008

Interesting article in the Washington Post this weekend reporting on two separate efforts to modify the D.C. firearms rules put into place following the D.C. v. Heller ruling earlier this year.  The D.C. Council is proposing to ease certain restrictions, while the U.S. Congress is considering a bill that would "virtually end local handgun control" [...]

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5 Days?! But I'm mad now.

June 30, 2008

I will teach this fall, for the first time, a seminar on firearms regulation at the University of Akron School of Law.  I wonder if there will be any interest…
As you all know, it's been an active week for gun control.  And after all the handwringing and huzzahs, what is there really to say about [...]

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Scalia unbound

June 30, 2008

Here's an observation from Dahlia Lithwick on the Heller decision (concluding that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to own a handgun):
But I must first pass along this rather brilliant observation from professor Stephen Wermiel from American University, who wonders why none of the dissenters cautioned the majority that today's decision"will almost certainly cause [...]

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