The Latest Breaking News from Rahimi

From yesterday's decision in U.S. v. Medina-Cantu, by Judge Carolyn Dineen King and Kurt Engelhardt: In U.S. v. Portillo-Munoz (5th Cir. 2011), this court held that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), which prohibits an illegal alien from possessing a firearm or ammunition, is constitutional under the Second Amendment. In the present…

Court relies on Rahimi in support of liberalized gun carry permits.

SCOTUS GVR's Range, sends Second Amendment to inferior court purgatory.

The Chief Justice retconned Federalist Nos. 37 and 78.

In SEC v. Jarkesy, Chief Justice Roberts offers the Court's latest opinion on the Seventh Amendment. Although most of the attention will rightly go to the public rights discussion, I want to briefly note and recap a few thing from the Court's Seventh Amendment primer, especially related to law and…

The real dissents are the concurrences by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson.

I find myself in agreement with Mike Dorf and Linda Greenhouse.

Although critics say the Court’s current approach is unworkable, it has been undeniably effective at defeating constitutionally dubious gun regulations.

There is a great deal of panic surrounding the "extreme" nature of the current Court. But that is often not based in reality.