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A series of devastating quakes has taken thousands of lives and left thousands more homeless. Aid specialists say the Taliban lacks the equipment and experience to help the survivors.

Justices will hear questions involving Donald Trump’s eligibility for office, abortion rights, gun ownership, the First Amendment and other major cases

Amicus brief in Supreme Court's Second Amendment Rahimi case

The Government drops reference to the slave codes as a historical analogue in Rahimi.

The decision casts further doubt on the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a felony for illegal drug users to own firearms.

Title 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) bans gun possession by anyone "who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance," including marijuana; the ban applies not just while a person is intoxicated, but also while the person is sober. Today's decision in U.S. v. Daniels, written by Judge…

"Across America, survivors of domestic abuse will now wait in fear to see whether Justice Kavanaugh..."

The Supreme Court just announced that it will consider this issue, in U.S. v. Rahimi; this is unsurprising, since the Court is generally inclined to review cases where a court held that a federal statute was unconstitutional, and where the federal government asks for review. Here's my post from February,…

Range would be the best § 922(g) case for the Supreme Court to resolve.

Today's en banc decision in Range v. Attorney General so concludes, in a majority opinion by Judge Hardiman, which got the votes of nine of the fifteen judges. The challenger in this case pleaded guilty in 1995 to making a false statement to obtain food stamps; because this was in…

The Administration is hoping that bad facts will make bad law.