The Unusual Nature of Justice Breyer’s Retirement Announcement
Of the last six Justices to announce their retirement, Justice Breyer’s is the earliest in the term, by two and a half months. But more notable than that, Justice Breyer’s…
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President Biden’s Own Muddled Comments on Gun Control Laws Expose How Futile They Are
“Speech is worth one coin, but silence is worth two,” states the Talmud, a central text of Jewish tradition. Perhaps Joe Biden should have favored us with his silence regarding…
Way to Keep An Open Mind, Mr. President.
William E. Trachman, General Counsel for Mountain States Legal Foundation, today expressed dismay that President Joe Biden would pre-winnow his list of possible Supreme Court candidates to just an African-American woman, thereby eliminating, out-of-hand, the possibility of choosing any other individual for that position who doesn’t meet those criteria.
Supremes Answer the Call to Address Race-Based College Admissions
Mountain States Legal Foundation General Counsel William E. Trachman today applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a pair of cases challenging the longstanding use of race-based admissions policies…
Holding The Government Accountable Ain’t For The Faint of Heart
Would you spend nearly four decades fighting a federal government with unlimited resources, patience, and power at its disposal to demand your right to drill for oil and gas? Or…
The Tide Is Turning on Gun Control
Contrary to popular misconceptions, the Second Amendment did not create a right to keep and bear arms. Rather, the Second Amendment acknowledges and seeks to protect the People’s natural right…
Carjacked Congresswoman Sticks to Her Anti-Gun Guns
Was former Philadephia Mayor Frank Rizzo correct when he famously described a conservative as “a liberal who got mugged the night before”? Apparently not, judging from a recent incident in…
MSLF Comments on Wyoming Petition to Delist Grizzlies
Mountain States Legal Foundation, which has for years been involved in litigation related to federally protected grizzly bears, today welcomed the news that Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has formally petitioned the federal government to remove the…
Banning Guns on College Campuses Puts Students in Danger
Evidence indicates that concealed carriers are among the safest and most law-abiding people in the nation, committing crimes at an even lower rate than police officers. Meanwhile, the threat of…
Keep Your Dreams of Gun Control Out of the Mouths of our Founding Fathers
Amid rambling incoherence, USA Today columnist Carli Pierson tries to blame “people like Rep. Lauren Boebert” for “the gun violence and trauma we are constantly cycling through as a nation.”…