“Majority of Supreme Court Appears Receptive to Biden Administration Limits on ‘Ghost Guns’; At issue was how the Biden administration had interpreted a federal statute to regulate kits that could be assembled into homemade guns, skirting background checks”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.
Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has an article headlined “Citing omelets and chili, justices seem likely to uphold ghost gun rules; A majority of Supreme Court justices seem skeptical the government overstepped in requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns.”
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court appears to lean in favor of federal ban on sale of gun kits.”
Maureen Groppe and Bart Jansen of USA Today have an article headlined “Supreme Court discusses omelets when debating whether ‘ghost guns’ can be regulated.”
And Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times report that “Supreme Court casts skeptical eye toward unregulated ‘ghost’ guns.”
“The Supreme Court’s Originalists Are Fundamentally Wrong About History; The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning; So why do so many of the justices?” Andrew Lanham has this essay online at The New Republic.
“Appeals court signals it will uphold Massachusetts assault weapons ban”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.
You can access the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link.
“FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds; A Democratic senator’s report finds new evidence of the White House controlling an FBI investigation into sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee”: Beth Reinhard of The Washington Post has this article.
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has posted online his report, titled “Unworthy of Reliance: The Flawed Supplemental Background Investigation Into Sexual-Assault Allegations Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”
“US supreme court to hear arguments in major ‘ghost guns’ case; Garland v VanDerStok first in series of high-profile cases justices will hear in what is set to be contentious term”: Cecilia Nowell of The Guardian has this report.
Devin Dwyer of ABC News has a report headlined “What is a gun? As ghost guns proliferate, Supreme Court will consider; Supreme Court will hear challenge to ATF rule on self-assemble gun kits.”
And Lyle Denniston has a blog post titled “The Court and ‘ghost guns.’“