Second Amendment gets vaunted status in SCOTUS gun ruling

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The Supreme Court held its biggest decisions for the end of the session. On Thursday, they released a consequential ruling on gun rights.

But it’s not just about guns.

The newly muscular conservative majority on the court ruled that a New York state law that restricted the right to carry a concealed firearm was unconstitutional. That will have major repercussions across the country in communities trying to fight gun crime.

But as Supreme Court scholar Morgan Marietta writes, the conservative majority did something else with the ruling: They elevated the status of the Second Amendment, and that’s “part of a dramatic shift in the court’s understanding of the Constitution.”

Now, says Marietta, a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, the Second Amendment has the same vaunted, almost holy status in U.S. law as the First Amendment and other Bill of Rights protections such as free exercise of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The flip side, writes Marietta, is that protections recognized by the court over time – abortion, privacy and same-sex marriage – but not in the Bill of Rights, will not be accorded the same protection and respect.

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