The Supreme Court has found a gun-control measure it likes
The conservative justices on America’s highest court balked at the prospect of arming domestic abusers
HARD CASES make bad law, warned Oliver Wendell Holmes junior, an early-20th-century justice. Cases reaching America’s Supreme Court often pose tricky, even wrenching, dilemmas. But after 90 minutes of oral argument on November 7th, a case testing the boundaries of the court’s recent expansion of gun rights looked unexpectedly easy to resolve.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Disarming justice”
United States November 11th 2023
- Donald Trump looks terrifyingly electable
- Democrats are giddy from this week’s electoral sweep
- Why sexually transmitted infections are rising in America
- The Supreme Court has found a gun-control measure it likes
- California is losing people, but this region wouldn’t know it
- Boston’s “cradle of liberty” was paid for with slavery profits
- Chicago’s progressive coalition is struggling with migration
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