The Court's conservative majority turns to “history and traditions” to ignore the obvious — again ...

Exploring the origins and evolution of the Second Amendment, this episode examines how a post-revolutionary principle became one of the most polarizing topics in American politics. From the founding ...

The Supreme Court’s preferred method of interpreting the Constitution is originalism, which requires judges to abide by the original public meaning of the constitutional text. This is often more ...

The conservative bloc’s only consistent practice is its inconsistent application of its own “history-and-tradition” test.

Patriots' Day -- Ratification -- The tub to the whale -- Arkansas toothpicks, Beecher's bibles, and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Revolt at Cincinnati -- Contest for the Constitution -- The road to ...

The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez on Thursday confirms our worst fears about the supermajority’s Second ...

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School. The contrast in ...

King Kamehameha I united the Hawaiian Islands to create the Kingdom of Hawaii. His statue stands outside of Ali'iolani Hale, the home of the Hawaii Supreme Court. (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News) ...

When people say the Second Amendment should be abolished because it was “written for muskets,” they’re ignoring both history and logic. If we applied that reasoning across the Constitution, we’d also ...