Thursday, March 21, 2024

What Stephen Breyer’s new book says about key Supreme Court cases - The Washington Post

In his dissent in Bruen, Breyer argued that the majority's decision would make it more difficult for state lawmakers to take steps to limit the dangers of gun violence. The Second Amendment allows states to "take account of the serious problems posed by gun violence," wrote Breyer, who was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan... 

"How can a jurisprudential philosophy grounded in that Constitution ignore these practical realities and the deadly consequences of striking down the efforts of democratically elected bodies to address those realities?" Breyer writes. "I do not think it can."...

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