Virtually no restrictions on either type were enacted. Fast forward to District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the District's brief argued that its handgun ban "do[es] not disarm the District's ...

Justice Antonin Scalia affirmed this interpretation in District of Columbia v. Heller, the 2008 landmark legal precedent that secured the individual right to firearms. The prefatory clause ...

Since the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which affirmed an individual's right to possess firearms for self-defense within the home, the Court has been notably reticent about ...

In a pair of cases, District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008 and McDonald v. City of Chicago in 2010, the high court ruled individual Americans have a right to bear arms that must be respected under ...

Judicial interpretations also play a critical role as well. Landmark Supreme Court rulings, such as District of Columbia v. Heller, have reinforced the individual right to gun ownership ...

The Supreme Court should address these concerns by overturning District of Columbia v. Heller, not by complaining that the justices must share the same concerns about gun violence that the court ...

The case is District of Columbia v. United States, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 1:25-cv-00065. For District of Columbia: Alec Bowman, Brian Caldwell, David Hoffman ...

President Trump is facing backlash after he and first lady Melania Trump launched two cryptocurrency tokens just days before ...

Some of the inauguration parties, including a crypto gala and a Hispanic ball, highlighted new elements of President Trump’s ...

Nikki Haley wins District of Columbia’s GOP primary, her 1st victory in 2024 race Nikki Haley's victory in D.C. on Sunday at least temporarily halts Donald Trump’s sweep of the GOP voting ...

By Stephanie Saul Columbia University and one of its longtime law professors, Katherine Franke, have severed ties after an investigation stemming from her advocacy on behalf of pro-Palestinian ...