Law prof, Pepperdine Law; Affiliated Scholar, Duke Center for Firearms Law. I write about constitutional law, especially the Second Amendment.
Bio: https://t.co/yVUcs14NoK
Papers: http://bit.ly/3HleQND
Jake Charles
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Hey look, rich folks pledging to leave in the face of tax increases rather than help shoulder collective burdens is a time-honored tradition older than the republic itself.
(From Blackhawk’s Rediscovery of America.)
Seems just a tad odd to pick as a username the John Brown stan account & then suggest folks ought to be more attentive to what views are broadly popular regardless of their normative correctness.
Officially legit. Is there a more pleasant place to research US history??
I’m sooooo bummed I’m not in DC rn because this — and all the other panels — sound phenomenal
This from @jamellebouie.net is so good: “We need not wait for politicians and judges to build a new constitutional world. We can articulate our vision of the political community and work to make it a reality using whatever means are at our disposal.”
Wrote a little thing about why expanding the number of justices is a time honored tradition* that used to facilitate the Supreme Court’s legitimacy for @inquirer.com (gift link!)
*not sure about this headline, though—folks often used “court packing” as an epithet even in the 19th c.
9th Cir. extends the reasoning from a last year's case upholding California's large-capacity magazine ban, holds that silencers are not protected by the Second Amendment because they are not "necessary to the ordinary operation of the weapon."
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Updates from the Court this week: no grants today, 6 new cert petitions, and 5 denials (4 of which are 922g1 cases). Plus, 6/11 and 6/18 conferences will include a total of 21 firearms law cases. Read more: firearmslaw.duke.edu/2026/06/scot...
Embarking on an intensive summer reading program on US history & it’s really hard trying to find the right balance between consuming the classics and covering so many incredible new works coming out.
Asked my third grader what the three branches of government are because she’s been around her older sister as she practiced that question many times. She answered “hope, peace, love.” If only, girl.
