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.
In the 19th century, Americans expected Supreme Court justices to represent and even travel around circuits and engage with citizens. Staying in D.C. is a more recent development.
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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Gabriel Malor
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...
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.)
Duke Center for Firearms Law
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.
I’m sooooo bummed I’m not in DC rn because this — and all the other panels — sound phenomenal
Jake Charles
Jake Charles
Jake Charles
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.
