Second Amendment

7 articles tagged with "Second Amendment".

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The Breaking Point of Bruen: Why the Supreme Court’s Fractured Stance on Disarming Drug Users is a Green Light for Federal Defenders

The Originalist Trap in Federal Firearms Prosecutions For the past four years, federal prosecutors and defense attorneys have been locked in a bizarre historical scavenger hunt, forced by the Supreme Court to scour 18th-century colonial statutes to d...

22 Sept 2026Criminal Law, Second Amendment
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The Second Amendment Breaches the Storefront: Why the Supreme Court’s Invalidation of Hawaii’s Handgun Limits Upends Premises Liability

The End of the "Vampire Rule" for Firearms The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has spent the last four years systematically dismantling state-level gun control regimes. But with its latest ruling, the Court has dragged private businesses d...

18 Sept 2026Second Amendment, Constitutional Law
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The Bruen Hangover: Supreme Court Wrestles with the Second Amendment and the Federal Gun Ban for Drug Users

A Collision of Originalism and the Administrative State The Supreme Court is currently wrestling with a monster of its own creation. On March 2, 2026, a deeply divided Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the ...

16 Sept 2026Criminal Law, Second Amendment
Constitutional LawLegal News

Textualism Holds the Line: Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Directive Under the 14th Amendment

The End of a Fringe Constitutional Theory For years, a vocal subset of legal theorists has argued that the executive branch could unilaterally end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court...

16 Sept 2026Constitutional Law, 14th Amendment
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SCOTUS Slams the Backdoor on Post-Conviction Relief: First Step Act and AEDPA Rulings Demand a New Defense Playbook

Finality Over Fairness: The First Step Act Gets Gutted For the past few years, federal criminal defense attorneys have effectively used the compassionate release provision of the First Step Act as a vital equitable tool. When Congress declined to mak...

15 Sept 2026First Step Act, Compassionate Release
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The Fall of Independent Agencies: Supreme Court Overrules Humphrey’s Executor in Historic 2026 Term

The Death of the Independent Agency For decades, administrative and corporate lawyers have structured their regulatory strategies around a single, foundational premise: independent agencies are insulated from direct presidential control. On June 29, ...

14 Sept 2026Supreme Court, Administrative Law
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The Door Slams Shut: Supreme Court Gut-Punches Compassionate Release While Circuit Courts Upend Federal Prosecutorial Authority

A Paradigm Shift in Federal Criminal Defense For the past several years, federal criminal defense attorneys have heavily relied on back-end, post-conviction relief to correct draconian sentences. But the Supreme Court’s spring 2026 term has decisivel...

13 Sept 2026Criminal Law, First Step Act

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