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Second Amendment Originalism from Judge Amy Coney Barrett ...

Nor have the parties introduced any evidence that founding-era legislatures imposed virtue-based restrictions on the right; such restrictions ...

Originalism and the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v ...

Today, Briefly dives into the late Justice Scalia's majority opinion in District of Columbia v Heller, a case in which the Supreme Court ...

Originalism, the theory conservatives use to interpret the ...

Weaponizing “originalism,” the Heller majority ruled that the Second Amendment protects Americans' right to carry any weapon “typically ...

Historical Semantics and the Meaning of the Second Amendment

According to originalism's “fixed-meaning canon” as articulated by Justice Scalia and Bryan A. Garner, “Words must be given the meaning they had ...

DIVERSE ORIGINALISM, HISTORY & TRADITION

The Court frequently expresses that the Second Amendment “codified a pre-existing right” “inherited from our English ancestors.”25 The scope of ...

Bruen, Heller, and the Originalist Victory - The Federalist Society

The case will decide whether an individual's right to possess a firearm extends outside the home and is the first major Second Amendment case to reach the ...

How do "originalist" interpreters of the constitution cope with the 2nd ...

But again this fails the originalist test. The framers regarded the 2nd Amendment as safeguarding the right of "the militia", meaning all able- ...

The Use and Abuse of History in District of Columbia v. Heller

48 Once again Scalia's originalist methodology turns history on its head. The Congress that drafted the Second Amendment deliberately rearranged Madison's ...

State Justices Speak Out Against Originalism | State Court Report

And in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.Bruen, the Court dramatically expanded gun rights under the Second Amendment through a ...

Structural Originalism: A Better Theory of the Second Amendment

Originalism and the Second Amendment: A reassessment ... This article argues that the precept of original meaning is a valid hermeneutic method employed by both ...

The Second Amendment is History - Villanova Law Review

The Second Amendment is History: Ninth Circuit Takes Originalist Approach in Finding No Right To Public Carry in Young v. Hawaii. Scott Kingsbury

Why is the Supreme Court Obsessed with Originalism?

The original Second Amendment thus presupposed a constitutional world at odds with the one the Supreme Court's originalists take for granted.

Heller and Constitutional Interpretation Originalism's Last Gasp

The Author posits that the Supreme Court's opinions in Heller are "thick and pure" originalism: greater historical ... Second Amendment issues. This is, in fact, ...

“Infants” and Arms Bearing in the Era of the Second Amendment

The issue of gun rights for minors presents originalists with irony. Following Heller's originalist methodology, there is no way to argue that “infants” in the ...

the living constitution and the second amendment: poor history, false ...

MICHAEL WALDMAN, THE SECOND. AMENDMENT: A BIOGRAPHY 98–99 (2014). 4 Id. at 100. 5 Jack N. Rakove, The Second Amendment: The Highest Stage of Originalism, 76 CHI ...

Intro.8.3 Original Meaning and Constitutional Interpretation

In that case, the Court held that the Second Amendment, as originally ... Arguably the original meaning of some provisions of the Constitution (e.g., the Ninth ...

Barrett and Gorsuch have to choose between originalism and gun ...

What is the scope of the Second Amendment right to bear arms outside of the home? The case will also force two of the court's newest justices to ...

The Inclusiveness of the New Originalism

by the Second Amendment, is deep and pervasive. Yet Justice Scalia writes, "Justice Stevens' view . .. relies on the proposition, unsupported by any ...

Understanding the Second Amendment - Heller and Originalism (4 ...

Professor Robert Shalhope explores the challenges which interpreters face when seeking an originalist understanding of the Second Amendment.

Matt Clark: A monumental victory for the Second Amendment and…

But in addition to the victory for the Second Amendment, there was an even bigger victory yesterday: the triumph of originalism over judicial- ...