Professor Jacob Charles Quoted in "Disarray in Lower Courts after Supreme Court’s 2nd Amendment Shake-up" -- Courthouse News Service

Professor Jacob D. Charles is quoted in the Courthouse News Service article, "Disarray in Lower Courts after Supreme Court’s 2nd Amendment Shake-up." The article considers the Fifth Circuit decision in USA v. Rahimi, which is one of many rulings relying on the Supreme Court’s new framework for evaluating gun laws under the Second Amendment.

Excerpt from "Disarray in Lower Courts after Supreme Court’s 2nd Amendment Shake-up"

“The court basically says well those were group-based disarmament laws so therefore they're not analogous to 922(g)(8) — this federal prohibition — because the federal prohibition is a targeted individualized disarmament, not a group-based disarmament and therefore it can't be supported by these old group based laws,” Jake Charles, a professor at Pepperdine Caruso Law, said in a phone call.

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