Eric Ruben
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@ericmruben
Associate Professor @SMULawSchool, Fellow @BrennanCenter. Writing on violence, guns, the 2A, and criminal law. Views are my own. RTs aren’t endorsements.
N.D.Tex. upholds Tex. ban on firearms in bars/restaurants/stadiums/racetracks. Court finds that the conduct is within the 2A, so Bruen step 1 is satisfied. It therefore looks at the history, based on amici appointed to defend the law @ericmruben and Judge Gregg Costa. #Ziegenfuss
After Rahimi, Munoz, Elster, etc., there's a central debate as to what history and tradition means and should mean— but am I right that, within academia, it's of interest mostly to the tiny slice of con law profs who are center to right-of-center? (see BK's fn in Rahimi...)
Justice Jackson cited Brennan Center Fellow @ericmruben in her concurrence in U.S. v. Rahimi, repudiating some of the damage from Justice Thomas's disastrous decision in Bruen.
Professor @ericmruben's article, "Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment After Bruen," was published in the @MinnesotaLawRev. "This Article is the first to assess Bruen as it applies to suicide prevention laws, and, in doing so, illuminates another form of change that complicates Bruen’s implementation: scientific progress." 🔗 Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
