HELLER AND GUN CONTROL “Justice Scalia would be proud,” wrote Judge William Young of the Massachusetts Federal District Court in referring to Justice Antonin Scalia’s 5-4 majority opinion in the 2008 case of District of Columbia v. Heller. VoxFairfax offered commentary… Read More ›
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SECOND AMENDMENT NOT A BARRIER TO FIREARMS CONTROL
By Lorraine Marie Simonis Simonis is a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law.. The Parkland school shooting has reignited America’s cyclical gun control debate. At the urging of Parkland student activists, thousands of people demonstrated across… Read More ›
SANCTUARY CITIES: DOJ EMPLOYS CIVIL WAR RHETORIC
By Lorraine Marie Simonis Ms. Simonis is a J.D. candidate at the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in May 2018. Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. A bill to ban “sanctuary cities” in Virginia–which… Read More ›
As the General Assembly Takes Up Gun Safety Legislation, Let’s Recall the Supreme Court’s Heller Decision
Editors’ Note, July 8, 2019: The article that follows was originally published 15 months ago. Given that tomorrow will see the start of Governor Northam’s special legislative session on gun safety laws, we thought it an opportune time to revisit… Read More ›
COUNTY MUGGED AND CLUBBED FOR $1.5 MILLION
The victims are Arlington County’s 220,000 residents at the hands of 7200 country club members [of the Army Navy Country Club or ANCC] led by 140 members of the General Assembly [GA] spearheaded, in turn, by a non-Arlington delegate, Thugo. … Read More ›
RESISTING THE REPETITION OF HISTORY
In 1964, the 24th Amendment outlawed the poll tax in federal elections but four states retained the restriction—Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. The year prior, Annie E. Harper was among a group of Fairfax residents who filed suit challenging the… Read More ›
THE GERRYMANDER EFFECT IN STATE AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS
In the 2017 elections in Virginia for its lower house, Democrats outpolled Republicans 53 to 43% by a margin of 231,000 votes but secured only 49 of 100 seats at stake. In similar fashion, the Wisconsin case now before… Read More ›