Two Contradictory Decisions on AR-15 Bans Reflect Clashing Views of Supreme Court Precedents: Does the Second Amendment Allow the Government to Ban Guns in Common Use for Lawful Purposes?
Last month, a federal judge ruled that New Jersey’s ban on AR-15 rifles is unconstitutional. A week later, a federal appeals court deemed a similar ban in Maryland perfectly consistent with the Second Amendment. These dueling decisions reflect a basic...
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VIRGINIA: Students Divided On Returning to Public Schools With Confederate Names Restored The start of the school year often brings questions for families about schedules, supplies and new teachers. But for some students in Virginia, the most pressing question is a...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Problem of Torture
In the months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating them on Osama bin Ladin. Then, after it murdered bin Ladin, the government decided that the true mastermind was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By the time of bin Ladin’s death,...
That Time The U.S. Government Accidentally Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on South Carolina
Helen Gregg was 6 years old when her world blew up. She remembers vividly the day in 1958 when she was playing in front of her childhood home outside Florence when everything was shook by an explosion — the result of the accidental aerial release of a nuclear bomb....Obiter Dicta
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