So the Court held that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual the right to have a sawed-off double barrel shotgun because that specific weapon was not a reasonable weapon for either a ...

What role, if any, should a judge's personal preference concerning the outcome of a case play in deciding a dispute? That controversial question resurfaced last month as the U.S. Supreme Court heard ...

Also published in Reason's The Volokh Conspiracy Sun. March 29, 2026. On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Trump v. Barbara, concerning the meaning of the Citizenship Clause in the ...

As the Supreme Court prepares for oral argument on Tuesday next week in Wolford v. Lopez, it should consider resolving the relevant time period for interpreting the scope of the Second Amendment. The ...

Now that the Supreme Court has granted cert in Trump v. Barbara, the meaning of the Citizenship Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment should be definitively clarified. There are numerous collateral ...

Also published in Reason's The Volokh Conspiracy Mon. January 19, 2026. In Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to clarify for the lower courts the difference between legislative ...