Saturday Jun 22, 2024

Extreme Textualism in Bump Stock Case

The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive action banning bump stocks, a device that allowed the Las Vegas shooter to convert a semi-automatic rifle into a functional machine gun. Former DOJ prosecutor Alex Grant explains how the six-person conservative majority's fidelity to textualism overrode the liberals' competing textual argument and defeated Congress's intent in passing the machine gun statute.

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