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Benjamin Wittes, January 25, 2008, The New Republic
Benjamin 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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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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Benjamin Wittes, April 28, 2008, The New Republic
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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Thomas E. Mann, April 2008, The Forum, Volume 6, Issue 1
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Benjamin Wittes, December 07, 2007, The New Republic
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Benjamin Wittes and Mark Gitenstein, November 15, 2007, Opportunity 08
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Thomas E. Mann, July 13, 2007, Los Angeles Times
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Thomas E. Mann, July 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times
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Thomas E. Mann, July 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times
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Thomas E. Mann, July 10, 2007, Los Angeles Times