The Supreme Court has spent the 16 years since District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) defining the rights protected by the Second Amendment: the individual nature of the right to keep and bear arms ...

On the bench, he has faithfully applied the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, and ruled that Second Amendment rights deserve at least as much protection as any others.

This was a departure from the previous standard, established 14 years earlier in District of Columbia v. Heller. In that 2008 ...