Justice Thomas, Pandora, and Stephen Colbert Walk into a Gun Store…

By Ilya Shapiro

My sometime co-author Josh Blackman points out a parallel between Justice Thomas’s fascinating concurrence in McDonald v. Chicago — which extended the right to keep and bear arms to the states – and the “Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed” article we published earlier this year.
Justice Thomas in McDonald v. Chicago:
With the inquiry appropriately narrowed, I believe this case [...]

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A Few More Points on McDonald

By Ilya Shapiro

I still haven’t finished reading the full 214-page opinion, but a few points to add to the statement I made yesterday:

Justice Alito’s plurality opinion, joined by the Chief Justice and Justices Scalia and Kennedy, is a tight 45-page discussion of the history of the right to keep and bear arms and how it relates to [...]

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