The Supreme Court faces a new wave of Second Amendment cases testing how far the constitutional right reaches beyond guns, ...

Last month, I provided a short discussion of the upcoming AR-15 rifle ban case, Viramontes v. Cook County, noting that the 2008 pathbreaking Second Amendment decision, District of Columbia v.

King Kamehameha I united the Hawaiian Islands to create the Kingdom of Hawaii. His statue stands outside of Ali'iolani Hale, the home of the Hawaii Supreme Court. (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News) ...

The six Federalist Society-vetted members of the Supreme Court claim to be close readers of the Constitution, “originalists,” who parse the intentions of the founders and, somehow, even the attitude ...

After a counterprotester was killed at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, many members of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemned its Virginia chapter for defending the ...

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit may prove to be one of the most consequential Second Amendment rulings in modern history. The court struck down New Jersey's ...

Also published in Reason's The Volokh Conspiracy Mon. January 19, 2026. In Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to clarify for the lower courts the difference between legislative ...

The Justice Department recently established a "Second Amendment Section" within its Civil Rights Division. On its face, that move is a welcome development for defenders of the constitutional right to ...

On January 27, in United States v. Hembree, the Fifth Circuit held that the federal felon firearm ban (18 USC 922(g)(1)) based on a conviction for simple possession of methamphetamine violates the ...