U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Sep. 9, 2019
All this over a two-bit gun case
The 5-to-4 Republican majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has existed for some time now, and has been accepted as a political fact of life. But a case now before the court has brought into the open a partisan division which threatens to affect the court itself. It’s a gun case.
Charles S. Doskow
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
Email: dosklaw@aol.com
Harvard Law School
Charles is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and in 2012 was awarded the chapter's Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution award.
The 5-to-4 Republican majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has existed for some time now, and has been accepted as a political fact of life. But a case now before the court has brought into the open a partisan division which threatens to affect the court itself. It's a gun case.
Gun violence and proposals to combat it are red-hot political issues. Recent multiple killings have made the subject impossible for candidates and officeholder...
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