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Alarm bells as Supreme Court takes up major case it ducked last year: ex-DOJ prosecutor

The Court Is Not Hiding Its Politics on GunsThe Source of PowerThe relevant power is not in Maryland, where the ban exists, or in the abstract language of the Second Amendment. It sits with the Supreme Court, which decided to take up a case on whether bans on AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are constitutional. That choice matters because the Court is not passively receiving disputes; it is selecting which fights to intensify and which rules to unsettle.The Decision Behind the CurtainJoyce Vance’s warning points to the real story: the Court’s recent behavior has not been neutral…

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