It’s obvious that the Court isn’t actually trying to come up with a legal rule that makes sense.

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The Supreme ...

When people say the Second Amendment should be abolished because it was “written for muskets,” they’re ignoring both history and logic. If we applied that reasoning across the Constitution, we’d also ...

The Supreme Court’s preferred method of interpreting the Constitution is originalism, which requires judges to abide by the original public meaning of the constitutional text. This is often more ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court will decide whether the government may ban "habitual drug users" from possessing guns. (J. Scott Applewhite / ...

WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to the bans on semi-automatic rifles in Maryland, California and eight other blue states. Gun rights ...

With the Supreme Court back in session, the justices are preparing to weigh two Second Amendment challenges. One will look at whether it is constitutional to restrict people from carrying firearms on ...

In an age where the Second Amendment is caricatured as a relic of frontier nostalgia or a totem of reckless individualism, conservatives must reclaim its deeper truth: the right to bear arms is not ...