Professor Jacob D. Charles, "On Guns, the Supreme Court Can’t Shoot Straight" -- Washington Monthly

Professor Jacob D. Charles's opinion article, "On Guns, the Supreme Court Can’t Shoot Straight," is published in the Washington Monthly. The article considers the Supreme Court decision United States v. Rahimi and how it showcases the limits of an interpretive method tied to recovering the determinate meaning of words written in the past. 

Excerpt from "On Guns, the Supreme Court Can’t Shoot Straight"

Last week, the Court in United States v. Rahimi applied its new past-bound test to the modern problem of armed domestic violence. In that ruling, the Court sowed substantial uncertainty yet again–and undermined the originalist premise on which its Second Amendment precedents stand: that judges can reliably recover and apply the single fixed meaning of a contested legal text.

The complete article may be found at Washington Monthly