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Supreme Court justices sounded suspicious of New York’s gun law. Here’s what might come next.

Jacob D. Charles - November 4, 2021

Will the court listen to empirical evidence about safety, or just strike down any regulations that didn’t exist in the 18th century?

The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a Second Amendment case. That’s bad news for gun regulation advocates.

Amanda Hollis-Brusky - April 27, 2021

But if its decision goes too far, the Supreme Court might be handing ammunition to liberals who want to overhaul the court.

Why even diehard originalists aren’t really originalists

Susan Liebell - October 16, 2020

Consider “coverture,” a doctrine older than the Constitution, in which husbands controlled wives.

Here’s why originalism won’t be buried with Scalia

Amanda Hollis-Brusky - February 22, 2016

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Ready, Aim, Fire: 250 Members of the House, 55 Senators, and 1 Vice President Agree on Something that Does Not Matter

- February 11, 2008

On Friday, 55 United States Senators and 250 members of