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Save to My PortfolioGun Shy: The Justice Department Weighs in on the Second Amendment

Benjamin Wittes, January 25, 2008, The New Republic

Gun Shy: The Justice Department Weighs in on the Second AmendmentBenjamin Wittes examines Solicitor General Paul Clement's legal brief in the Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban and argues that "Acknowledging the amendment as proclaiming a right, but candidly treating that right as more flexible and less absolute than its neighbors in the Bill of Rights" is an appropriate way to translate Second Amendments values from the founding era to our own. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioDitch the Second Amendment

Benjamin Wittes, March 19, 2007, The New Republic

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing District of Columbia’s gun-ban appeal. The city's ban on handguns is one of the strictest in the nation and has been in place for 31 years. In this context, Benjamin Wittes argues that the Second Amendment is linked to institutions that no longer exist, but that its modern interpretation embodies values that many do not agree with. So to enable sensible gun control, "Let's repeal the damned thing," Wittes says, Read More

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Save to My PortfolioUnusual Nonsense: Supreme Court's Decision about "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"

Benjamin Wittes, April 28, 2008, The New Republic

Unusual Nonsense: Supreme Court's Decision about The Supreme Court recently handed down a decision upholding as constitutional the specific mixture of drugs by which thirty states put condemned prisoners to death.  In this piece, Ben Wittes writes about the Supreme Court's failure to rationalize its decisions about cruel and unusual punishment. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioA Collapse of the Campaign Finance Regime?

Thomas E. Mann, April 2008, The Forum, Volume 6, Issue 1

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Save to My PortfolioThe Death Clock: Don't Count Out the Death Penalty Yet

Benjamin Wittes, January 07, 2008, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioDetention Retention: Are Guantanamo Detainees All Innocent?

Benjamin Wittes, December 07, 2007, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioA Legal Framework for Detaining Terrorists: Enact a Law to End the Clash over Rights

Benjamin Wittes and Mark Gitenstein, November 15, 2007, Opportunity 08

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Save to My PortfolioRenditions and the Rule of Law

Daniel L. Byman, October 15, 2007, The Boston Globe

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Save to My PortfolioWhy I'm Not Looking Forward to the New Supreme Court Term

Benjamin Wittes, October 01, 2007, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioThe Law On Wiretapping

Benjamin Wittes, August 18, 2007, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioCampaign Finance: Matching Candidates' Scratch

Thomas E. Mann, July 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times

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Save to My PortfolioCampaign Finance Reform: Are There Smarter Ways to Fix the System?

Thomas E. Mann, July 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times

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