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Before 1900, was there a legal history in America of prohibiting particular types of arms? Yes, but it is very short. The far more common policy for controversial arms, such as Bowie knives or handguns, was forbidding concealed carry, limiting sales to minors, or imposing extra punishment for use in…

A bill that would challenge existing Supreme Court precedent by allowing the death penalty for people who sexually batter young children moved through its first committee in the Florida Senate with a unanimous vote on Monday.

BALTIMORE — With less than a month left to reshape Maryland’s gun regulations, state lawmakers have advanced bills with differing approaches as they grapple with a U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively struck down the state’s requirements for a permit to carry a concealed firearm.

Florida Republicans recently introduced companion bills in the state legislature that would prohibit certain public-sector employees from having union dues withdrawn from their pay. 

Brown’s appeals ran out after almost 30 years on death row. Defense attorneys claim Harris County prosecutors hid evidence pointing to another suspect in the 1992 shooting deaths of four people in a Houston drug house.

Mississippi might revive an initiative process, but people would be banned from putting abortion laws or budget proposals on the statewide ballot

Why I oppose both right-wing efforts to neuter judicial review in Israel and left-wing attempts to do the same in the US.

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The Supreme Court will hear the case of Groff v. DeJoy In Violation nf The First Amendment in Freedom Of Religion.