Sotomayor Without Tears

The justice delivers a glorious — and unanimous — opinion vindicating the National Rifle Association in its heroic defense of the constitutional amendment that has been called the palladium of our liberty.

AP/Seth Wenig, file
Governor Cuomo at New York City on August 10, 2023. AP/Seth Wenig, file

Justice Sonia Sotomayor might retreat to her chambers for a good cry now and again, as she herself confesses, but not this time. In the matter of New York State’s efforts to drive the National Rifle Association out of business, she just delivered a glorious opinion for a unanimous court vindicating one of America’s most distinguished civil rights organizations. She moved to protect the famed defender of the Second Amendment with the sword of the First.

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