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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.

Supreme Court Halts NYC’s Flight from Review under Second Amendment

This case arose as a result of NYC’s unconstitutional ban on transporting a licensed handgun outside city limits. For the past six years, NYC has vehemently defended its handgun transportation ban, but only at the last minute sought to avoid Supreme Court review when city officials realized the odds of success weren’t in their favor.

Red Flag Laws

VIDEO: MSLF recently hosted a panel of experts to discuss the gun confiscation orders known as Red Flag Laws that many states are adopting.

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.