Second Amendment Roundup: Bruen Was Right

Second Amendment Roundup: Bruen Was Right

J. Joel Alicea, "Bruen Was Right," 174 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025), sets forth a comprehensive defense of the text-history approach and rejection of means-scrutiny set forth in Justice Clarance Thomas' opinion in Bruen. A professor at the Columbus School of Law, Alicea is the director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Some scholars argue that Bruen was a mistake.  An exception Alicea cites is Willi…

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