Second Amendment
Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy
Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs across the briefs in New York…
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Reva B. Siegel
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Civil Rights
Equality Divided
Equal protection law today is divided. When minorities challenge laws of general application and argue that government has segregated or profiled on the basis of race, plaintiffs must show that…
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Second Amendment
Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller
The Court’s announcement in 2008 that the Second Amendment, ratified in 1791, protects an individual’s right to bear arms against federal gun control regulation was long awaited by many, long…