November 07, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of a lower-court decision that a federal law prohibiting people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders from owning firearms violates the Second Amendment.
November 06, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court isn't required by its recently adopted historical analog test to upend a federal statute prohibiting persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms if no similar law was on the books in the 1800s, two former clerks to conservative justices argue in a new paper, claiming the test's flexibility has been overlooked.
November 03, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday to wrap up its November oral arguments sessions, hearing cases that ask whether a federal statute prohibiting people subject to domestic violence orders from possessing guns violates the Second Amendment, whether the federal government can be sued in credit reporting cases and the proper calculation for veterans' education benefits.
October 27, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court's dawning term is quickly shedding light on fissures in a six-justice supermajority, providing new evidence of areas where the conservative camp isn't predictably rock-solid despite its rapid reshaping of the nation's legal landscape.
October 11, 2023
With arguments imminent in the U.S. Supreme Court's latest Second Amendment clash, the U.S. Department of Justice is suddenly taking comparable cases to the justices, suggesting that a ruling for accused domestic abusers might also benefit "armed drug users" and unleash "serious problems" in the judiciary.
September 29, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will tackle a variety of questions in the first half of its 2023 term that will have a broad impact on federal regulators' power and the authority of courts to intercede in major aspects of American life.
September 22, 2023
In the term beginning next week, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to return to some of the most hot-button issues concerning civil rights: guns, free speech, race discrimination, and potentially more.
August 22, 2023
A group of former chief state judges is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to undo a Fifth Circuit decision holding that a law allowing the disarmament of domestic abusers violates the Second Amendment, saying the law and others like it serve to protect vulnerable people as well as the integrity of the courts.
August 15, 2023
The Fifth Circuit's decision to strike down a law forbidding domestic abusers from owning guns was "profoundly mistaken" and "endangers victims of domestic violence, their families, police officers, and the public," the federal government has told the U.S. Supreme Court.
July 07, 2023
In the fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case centering on the intersection of gun rights and domestic violence. Legal experts say it could be one of several cases involving the Second Amendment the court will be called to decide following its landmark ruling on gun rights last year.