Tucker Higgins reports at
CNBC on friend-of-the-court briefs filed in support of the city in
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York, a challenge to New York City’s limits on transporting personal firearms, by groups of senators and representatives, including several Democratic presidential candidates. At
National Review, David French takes aim at the senators’ brief, suggesting that its “true intent … is to cast aspersions on the integrity of the Court itself.” In an op-ed for
The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse argues that, “[q]uirky as the [city’s] regulation might be, this case is potentially the vehicle that Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have been waiting for — a chance to turn the ambiguous and quite narrow Heller decision into the constitutional charter for gun rights that the gun lobby had hoped for but has not yet obtained.”