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. They also debated how a right crafted
