Nelson Lund is a constitutional law scholar and professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, known for his expertise on the Second Amendment and federalism. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 1997 and 2005, covering gun rights, constitutional interpretation, assisted suicide, and contentious legal disputes including the 2000 Florida election controversy.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS THE authority to stop Oregon physicians from using prescription drugs to implement that state's unique program of physician-assisted suicide. But the administration's effort to use an ambiguous federal drug statute to undermine Oregon's assisted suicide law is a…
GENERATIONS of law students have learned that the U.S. Supreme Court should avoid entanglement in "political" cases in order to preserve its reputation for impartiality. Unless, of course, such cases involve certain selectively chosen constitutional principles, which invariably call for the…
NO DISINTERESTED OBSERVER can believe that any known method of counting the six million votes cast in Florida would provide certainty. The only sane approach is to count the votes according to the laws in place on November 7, and accept that result. But that's the one thing Florida's supreme court…
Timothy Joe Emerson is a Texas physician who lawfully bought a pistol in 1997. About a year later, Emerson's wife filed for divorce and sought a temporary injunction containing 29 separate prohibitions, most of them aimed at protecting Mrs. Emerson's financial interests. The proposed order also…
TIMOTHY JOE EMERSON is a Texas physician who lawfully bought a pistol in 1997. About a year later, Emerson's wife filed for divorce and sought a temporary injunction containing 29 separate prohibitions, most of them aimed at protecting Mrs. Emerson's financial interests. The proposed order also…
For thirty years, crime and guns have been among the most hotly disputed and politically potent issues in America. Not surprisingly, slogans and anecdotes have been the principal ammunition. When empirical evidence has been allowed at all into debates about gun control, it has been notable mostly…
Wesley J. Smith