9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
Constitutional Law,
U.S. Supreme Court
Dec. 10, 2021
The 9th Circuit’s reactionary Second Amendment
Donald E.J. Kilmer Jr.
Law Offices of Donald Kilmer, APCPhone: (408) 264-8489
Email: Don@DKLawOffice.com
Don is a civil rights litigator, law professor, and co-editor of a law school casebook on Firearms Law and the Second Amendment.
In Barron v. Baltimore, 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 243 (1833), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the protections of the Bill of Rights were unenforceable against state and local governments. Barron was implicitly nullified after a bloody civil war, and explicitly overruled by the text of the 14th Amendment in 1868.
We still lament that the rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence failed to...
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