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Before High Court Loosens Gun Laws Again, It Should Answer A Justice’s Unbriefed Question: Was Heller Rightly Decided?
A Message from the American Enlightenment Project: Congressional Action Is Helpful but Not Enough, After Heller Put America in Peril WASHINGTON, DC, US, June 16, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Saturday’s second nationwide March for Our Lives – following another school shooting, this time in Uvalde, Texas where 19 elementary school children and 2 teachers were killed...
Read MoreTime To Heed Justice Stevens’ Criticism Of Gun Decision
In a tribute to Justice John Paul Stevens, who died July 16 at 99 years old, Time To Heed Justice Stevens’ Criticism Of Gun Decision (Law360 July 19, 2019), Robert Ludwig notes perhaps none “would have gratified him more than for the country to finally look to District of Columbia v. Heller to understand how...
Read MoreA Right To Carry Everywhere, On A Road To Nowhere
A 9th Circuit panel recently upheld a right to public carry, just as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh advocated for AR-15s: both applied “textualism.” To stop the Gun Epidemic — like yesterday’s Walmart mass shooting and Chicago’s latest 5 mass shootings in 3 hours — it’s time to turn a spotlight on the root cause:...
Read MoreThe Historic Legal Blunder That Enabled Our Gun Epidemic
“Having forgotten there was an American Enlightenment and our founding history, we now have what prior generations did not: a ‘gun epidemic.’” So begins Robert Ludwig’s latest article, “The Historic Legal Blunder that Enabled Our Gun Epidemic: Renouncing Heller by Deciding—Not Repealing—The Full Second Amendment” (Law360 Apr. 25, 2018). It was published in response to...
Read MoreHeller Sequels And 2nd Amendment, Still Undecided:Part 1
Almost a decade has passed since a bare (5-4) conservative majority of the Supreme Court struck down D.C.’s handgun ban and two centuries of law and legislative practice in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), implying in the Second Amendment a self-defense right to “handgun possession” and “to carry it in the...
Read MoreHeller Sequels And 2nd Amendment, Still Undecided:Part 2
In the second segment of his article, “Heller Sequels and 2nd Amendment, Still Undecided: Part 2” (Law 360 Aug. 3, 2017), Robert Ludwig explores the roots of the Second Amendment, and in doing so shows how the Heller majority, relying on dictionaries and English history a century earlier, and disregarding its debates, drafting, and American...
Read MoreHeller Sequels And 2nd Amendment, Still Undecided:Part 3
In Parts 1 and 2 of his recently-published article, “Heller Sequels and 2nd Amendment, Still Undecided: Part 1 (Law 360 Jul. 20, 2017) and “Heller Sequels and 2nd Amendment, Still Undecided: Part 2 (Law 360 Aug. 3, 2017), Mr. Ludwig showed how a divided Supreme Court in D.C. v. Heller (2008) “overlook[ed] the full text”...
Read MoreBehind Raging Battles over Guns and a Court Nominee: Constitutional Illiteracy
Robert Ludwig offers more legal and historical insights in response to the latest threatened shutdown, this time of the Supreme Court by Judiciary Committee Republicans who vowed not to hold hearings this year on any nominee to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia. Sen. Ted Cruz, a committee member running for the presidency, argued “we’re one justice...
Read More2nd Amendment Still Undecided, Hiding in Plain View
Robert Ludwig offers new legal and historical insights in response to “The Gun Epidemic,” the first New York Times front-page editorial in a century, urging: “It is past time to stop talking” and start reducing or “eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition” in the wake of San Bernardino, Colorado Springs, and daily mass...
Read MoreThe Second Amendment Still Undecided, Hiding in Plain View
Ludwig & Robinson posts article revealing new insights on the gun debate, including how District of Columbia v. Heller remarkably did not address much less decide the full Amendment as assumed. WASHINGTON, D.C. (PRWEB) JANUARY 06, 2016 Robert W. Ludwig, founding member of the Washington law firm Ludwig & Robinson, offers new legal and historical...
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