I'm so grateful to the excellent editors at @stanlrev.bsky.social for quickly publishing this essay on an important tension in Fourth Amendment law.
Aliza Hochman Bloom
Expanding public-carry regimes challenge Terry’s reasonable-suspicion standard. In some states, suspected gun possession alone can’t justify stops. @ahochmanbloom.bsky.social warns an emerging “firearm exceptionalism” sustains racialized, hindsight-based policing.
Terry v. Ohio’s flexible reasonable-suspicion rule is colliding with the post-Bruen expansion of public carry. In United States v. Wilson, the Fifth
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