Day: October 27, 2026

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on December 2, 2026, in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins. The consolidated cases ask whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to possess AR-15-platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. I thought it would be interesting to put…

The Supreme Court is preparing to hear two consolidated cases that could determine whether governments may ban AR-15-style and similar semiautomatic rifles: Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins. As of October 27, 2026, the consolidated docket lists 46 merits-stage amicus briefs—submissions from people and organizations that are not…