“The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision is wrong, dangerous, and disastrous for American sovereignty and the American people,” wrote GOP Senator Eric Schmitt. “If we can’t fix it with ordinary legislation, then we must do what the Constitution commands in moments of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution and restore American citizenship. We must […]
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After Bruen, states that historically favored greater restrictions on guns rewrote their laws to accommodate the Supreme Court’s ruling. Among those states was Hawaii. One of its changes was to the state’s “default rule” for trespassing. Before Bruen, it was lawful to bring a concealed weapon onto private property that is generally open to the […]
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The Bruen test “imposes on judges the unfamiliar and difficult tasks of sifting through centuries-old evidence in order to answer ‘contested historical questions,’ and ‘applying those answers to resolve contemporary problems,’” Jackson wrote, quoting from her predecessor Stephen Breyer’s dissent in Bruen. “Given those challenges, it is unsurprising that Bruen’s test is vulnerable to inconsistent […]
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Spanberger has yet to comment on the growing rebellion. But it creates an awkward situation for her. In coming weeks, she is expected to preside over a signing ceremony for the law. If nearly a dozen county prosecutors—and perhaps more by then—are simultaneously vowing not to enforce it, that seems to challenge her in a […]
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Further still, the modular rifle has become ingrained in the American consciousness by way of mass-casualty events, and is favored by killers who are looking to do as much damage to the human body as possible. At least 10 of the 17 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history involved a gunman wielding an AR-15 style […]
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Source: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / Getty Under the MAGA regime, we are officially charging U.S. citizens with crimes based on right-wing delusion. Antifa is still a loose ideology, not an organization, but that hasn’t stopped propaganda-inspired prosecutors from arguing that nine protesters accused of engaging in an “ambush” attack on a North Texas ICE detention facility are […]
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The oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week in United States v. Hemani were lively and at times illuminating. But not because they clarified the Second Amendment. Rather, they showed how unworkable the court’s current framework has become. For nearly two hours, the justices and the lawyers debated drugs, alcohol, gummies, cough syrup, Ambien, […]
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