Lawyer who clerked for Justice Scalia debunks some Second Amendment mythology | The Pulse

The late Supreme Court Justice and conservative icon Antonin Scalia did not, as some claim, view all limits on gun ownership as unconstitutional. In case you missed it, be sure to check out an op-ed published this morning in the New York Times authored by a pair of attorneys and former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks — Prof. Kate Shaw and John Bash. In “We Clerked for Justices Scalia and Stevens. America Is Getting Heller Wrong.” the two explain why Scalia’s famous/infamous 2008 ruling in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller most certainly did not confer — as claimed by many on the right — a completely unfettered right to bear arms. While Shaw and Bash differ on may aspects of the case and the Court’s ruling, they are in complete agreement that “Heller has been misused in important policy debates about our nation’s gun laws.” Contrary to the claims of many members of the gun lobby, it “does not totally disable government from passing laws that seek to prevent the kind of atrocities we saw in Uvalde, Texas.” As the two note: The opinion expressly recognized “presumptively lawful” regulations such as “laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the…
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