Second Amendment rights for abusers? Justices seem skeptical.
The U.S. Supreme Court today appeared skeptical that the Constitution protects the right of a domestic abuser to possess a firearm.
A year after issuing a decision expanding the Second Amendment right to carry a gun, the justices heard oral arguments in a case testing the limits of that right – and testing the functionality of a vague history-and-tradition test the court outlined in that 2022 decision.
Over two hours of arguments, the justices grappled with questions of when, and how, to balance constitutional tradition against personal safety…
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