Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: <em>Bruen</em>’s originalist distortions

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This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School.

The majority opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, … Read the rest