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United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. ___ (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and whether it empowers the government to prohibit firearm possession by a person with a civil domestic violence restraining order in the absence of a corresponding criminal domestic violence conviction or charge.
II, XIV, Sullivan Act. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), abbreviated NYSRPA v. Bruen and also known as NYSRPA II or Bruen to distinguish it from the 2020 case, is a landmark decision [1][2][3] of the United States Supreme Court related to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and ...
Two major Second Amendment groups called on the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland’s stringent "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013," after a lower court ruled the ban constitutional.
Supreme Court refused to hear a gun-rights claim that could have struck down California's ban on rapid-fire assault rifles. Supreme Court turns down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state bans on ...
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876) - post Civil War era case relating to the Ku Klux Klan depriving freed slaves basic rights such as freedom of assembly and the right to bear arms. The court ruled the application of the First and Second Amendments "was not intended to limit the powers of the State governments in respect to their ...
The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has taken an expansive view of Second Amendment rights. In 2022, the court recognized a constitutional right to carry a handgun in public ...
United States Supreme Court. On February 12, 2024, Trump appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to request a stay of the 2020 election interference trial while he sought an en banc hearing from the D.C. Circuit Court. [38] In response, Smith filed his own brief on February 14, 2024, urging the Supreme Court to deny Trump's request and citing the ...