CNBC by Tucker Higgins 5/17/2020
Supreme Court eyes more gun cases as conservatives signal eagerness to expand 2nd Amendment protections
Key Points
• The Supreme Court is looking eager to weigh in on the Second Amendment weeks after it punted on its first substantial gun rights case in nearly a decade.
• Ten different guns cases were on the agenda of the justices’ private conference on Friday, where they meet to decide which cases they will hear in the upcoming term.
• It is possible the court could announce as soon as Monday that it will hear one or more of the cases.
The Supreme Court is looking eager to weigh in on the Second Amendment weeks after it punted on its first substantial gun rights case in nearly a decade.
Ten different guns cases were on the agenda of the justices’ private conference on Friday, where they met to decide which cases they will hear in the upcoming term.
Each of those cases has been considered at one previous conference, a clear signal that there is “serious interest†in hearing them, according to John Elwood, a leading court observer and a partner at the law firm Arnold & Porter. It is possible the court could announce as soon as Monday that it will hear one or more of the cases. If it does so, a decision would be expected by the end of June 2021.
“There’s no question that there are a number of justices who are itching to take another gun case soon, and to almost certainly push for a vast expansion of the Second Amendment in a way that has never been countenanced in American history or law before,†said Jonathan Lowy, the chief counsel at the anti-gun violence group Brady.
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