SCOTUSblog by John Elwood 5/11/2020
Because I’m busy preparing for argument, today’s installment will be brief. This week’s most intriguing development is a follow-on to our last post. After the Supreme Court denied as moot the closely watched Second Amendment case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York, New York, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a brief opinion concurring in the dismissal to note that he shared the concerns of dissenting justices that the lower courts were misapplying the court’s Second Amendment precedents. He wrote that “[t]he Court should address that issue soon, perhaps in one of the several Second Amendment cases with petitions for certiorari now pending before the Court.†That week, the court released 10 Second Amendment cases it had been holding for the New York case. This week, it has relisted every one of them.
The 10 cases address a host of issues, ranging from the constitutionality of the federal ban on interstate handgun sales, to whether the Second Amendment guarantees a right to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense, to the constitutionality of various states’ and localities’ firearm restrictions. We should know next Monday which of them is plenary grant material.
That’s it. That’s the post. The court has a conference scheduled for every week until the end of June, so we’ll be busy going into the final stretch. In the meantime, stay safe!
More:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/05/relist-watch-and-then-there-were-guns/#more-293766
