Constitutional Rights

The Litigator

‘Repeal’ or Reinvent: Threats to Second Amendment Worsen

Efforts to redefine or remove constitutionally protected gun rights are becoming more radical. The need to defend them is greater than ever.

Biographical Questions Forced Top ATC Candidates Out of FAA Hiring Pool

“The number of different high school sports I participated in.”
“The age at which I first started to earn money (other than an allowance).”
Strange questions to ask would-be air traffic controllers. Yet those questions and others were ones the Federal Aviation Administration asked potential air traffic controllers to answer as part of a new hiring system in 2013.

Thousands of Air Traffic Controller Candidates Seek Class Action Status in Lawsuit Over FAA Hiring Discrimination

Mountain States Legal Foundation filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., today seeking to advance class action status for more than 2,500 aspiring air traffic controllers who were harmed by the FAA’s racially discriminatory hiring policies.­­

We Are All Originalists Now… Sort of

MSLF attorney David McDonald published an op-ed in RealClearPolitics today on the enduring legacy of Justice Scalia. Since the 1980s, constitutional text and history have become ever more central to Supreme Court jurisprudence.

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Victory! Supreme Court Upholds the Constitutionality of Cross-Shaped War Memorials

What kind of country would this be if it were illegal to display a cross-shaped memorial to fallen war heroes on public land? Thankfully, we will not have to find out.

Victory! The Supreme Court Upholds the Constitutionality of Cross-Shaped War Memorials

The United States Supreme Court upheld the right of communities to build and maintain war memorials that include crosses.

Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Cross-Shaped War Memorials

In a 7-2 ruling the United States Supreme Court upheld the right of communities to build and maintain war memorials that include crosses.

Supreme Court Says No to NYC’s 2nd Amendment Avoidance Scheme

Are New York City officials afraid of the Constitution?

MSLF attorney Cody Wisniewski writes in National Review Online about the scheme New York City officials used to try to keep the Supreme Court from reviewing the most important Second Amendment case in nearly a decade.