How to Make Harry Reid’s Power Grab Work for Conservatives
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) is expected to try to change the rules of the Senate to shut out the voices of the minority… Read More
Can the U.N. Grab Americans’ Guns?
For much of the past two weeks, I’ve been attending the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty conference in New York and blogging on the craziness of… Read More
Scribecast: Katie Pavlich on the Scandal of Operation Fast and Furious
Katie Pavlich’s new book, “Fast and Furious,” assembles the devastating evidence that implicates the Obama administration for its ill-advised gun-walking operation and ensuing scandal to… Read More
Calls for Gun Control in Wake of Fast and Furious Ignore Current Law
Attorney General Eric Holder used his testimony before a House committee on Thursday to tout the supposed need for new gun control laws to prevent… Read More
Hypocrisy Alerts on the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty
There are quite a few reasons to be concerned about the U.N.’s pending Arms Trade Treaty. It poses a number of risks to the Second… Read More
Gun Control Is Not Proper Reaction to Arizona Tragedy
The wake of a violent tragedy is an appropriate time for reflection, investigation, prayer, and the promotion of healing. It is a particularly inappropriate time… Read More
Yet Again, Media Exaggerates Scale of Gun Smuggling from U.S. Into Mexico
The Washington Post today ran a lengthy front-page story headlined “As Mexico drug violence runs rampant, U.S. guns tied to crime south of border.” The… Read More
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Kagan, Gun Rights, and the Fourteenth Amendment
We have posted several videos from this summer’s Second Amendment Task Force this week. Today’s final installment is of remarks by Dave Kopel, Research Director… Read More
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Elena Kagan During the Clinton Years
Yesterday, we shared a video of our own Hans von Spakovsky speaking at a Second Amendment Task Force event earlier this summer. Hans focused on… Read More
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How Would Justice Kagan Approach the Second Amendment?
At a Second Amendment Task Force held earlier this summer, Hans Von Spakovsky, Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, explained that Elena Kagan’s lack… Read More
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McDonald v. Chicago: An Exclusive Interview
After helping to strike down the Chicago handgun ban, the winners in today’s Supreme Court decision promised, in an exclusive interview with the Heritage Foundation,… Read More
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Sessions’ Opening Statement on Elena Kagan
As the confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan got underway at 12:30, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), lost no time… Read More
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The Next Chicago Gun Rights Case . . . And Why It Is Important to the Kagan Confirmation
Moments ago, the Supreme Court announced that, Yes Virginia, the Second Amendment does in fact apply to the states, and thereby struck down Chicago’s complete… Read More
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Protecting the Second Amendment (But Just Barely)
In what is probably the most important Second Amendment case in Supreme Court history, the Court today held that the “right of the people to… Read More
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Morning Bell: Will Elena Kagan Defend the Rule of Law?
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its hearing today on the nomination of Elena Kagan to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court… Read More
The DISCLOSE Act and the NRA: Some Bad News
Just as opposition was building in the House to the unconstitutional and burdensome DISCLOSE Act, which is intended to help Democrats in the November election… Read More
President Calderon’s Misleading Claim
In his speech before a Joint Session of Congress yesterday, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico made a bold claim. He asserted that: Just to give… Read More
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Kagan’s Inaction on Second Amendment Case Raises Questions
Much of the discussion and speculation about Elena Kagan’s legal philosophy is limited by her very thin record of scholarship, along with an almost complete… Read More
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Kagan’s Gun Problem
Elena Kagan may be hostile to the view that the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution protects American’s individual right to keep and bear arms. Bloomberg… Read More
Video: What Could McDonald v. Chicago Mean for the Second Amendment?
We caught up with Alan Gura, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs (also the attorney in the Heller decision) and Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation to get their take on the oral arguments, the legal theories involved, and the importance of McDonald v. Chicago for the Second Amendment.
In the Green Room: Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) on Guns, Property and the EPA
Heritage Foundation today to meet with bloggers at The Blogger’s Briefing. Before the meeting, he sat down with us to talk about the Supreme Court taking up the Chicago gun-ban case, a leaked document from the Department of the Interior, and the EPA’s decision to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
Supreme Court Takes Up Chicago Gun Ban Case Today
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in McDonald v. Chicago, a landmark case addressing whether states can deny the rights of their… Read More
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Limiting Leviathan: The States’ Role in Protecting Liberty
The American Founders recognized that federalism is essential to maintaining individual liberty in the United States. The Constitution therefore grants the federal government only certain… Read More
U.S. Policy on Conventional Arms Control Departs Reality
On October 30, the United States voted with the majority in the General Assembly to support U.N.-sponsored negotiations to regulate the conventional arms trade. The… Read More
Delegate Norton Calls on Mexico to Be “Very, Very Angry” With U.S.
In a recent meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) told Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General… Read More
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Sotomayor’s Activist Cases: The 11-Word Dismissal of the Second Amendment
To correspond with Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings next week, I am launching a new daily feature: highlighting a key activist case and, separately, a notable… Read More
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Morning Bell: The Sotomayor Pattern
Yesterday’s Supreme Court opinion in Ricci, the New Haven firefighters case, provides a window to what will inevitably be a significant line of questioning in… Read More
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Sonia Sotomayor’s Second Amendment Problem
Heritage Senate Relations Director Brian Darling notes: President Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor, owes the American people an… Read More
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Denying the Second Amendment Rights of Americans – Another Bad Decision by Judge Sotomayor
When the Supreme Court decided the Heller case last year striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, it recognized that the Second Amendment confers… Read More
Koh’s Goal for the Legal Trade in Arms: Ban It
Harold Koh, the nominee for Legal Adviser to the State Department, supports “the global regulation of small arms” and a “global gun control regime.” And… Read More
