A Legal Take on the Supreme Court’s Bump Stock Ruling

When the Supreme Court ruled the federal government’s Trump-era ban on bump stocks was overreach and struck the restriction down, it removed a shadow from many gun owners who likely still owned the devices, removing otherwise honest, law-abiding citizens from the possibility of being an unintentional felon. West Virginia defense attorney, Todd La Neve, who … Read more

Mogulescu: Clarence Thomas is to Blame for America’s Escalating Violent Crime Problem

Hardly a day or a week goes by without another mass shooting. But the opinion authored by Thomas (and joined by the other five extreme right-wing justices) in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) has made most commons (sic) sense gun control regulations illegal and will lead to more people being killed and maimed by … Read more

The Time Has Come for Reparations for New York City Residents Who Have Been Deprived of Their Second Amendment Rights

Guilt is a powerful emotion. So powerful, in fact, that an American city is considering impoverishing itself and future generations of its citizens in order to absolve itself of guilt, achieve some kind of perceived redemption, and display for all the world its exemplary virtue as it atones for a wrong that…no one in the … Read more

Justice Thomas’s Quiet Influence on the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Jurisprudence

In 2008, Thomas signed on to Justice Antonin Scalia’s landmark opinion holding that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to have firearms for self-defense. Supporters of gun rights believed that many gun regulations across the country would fall. But lower courts, citing a part of the District of Columbia v. Heller decision that said that the … Read more