Georgetown professor William English is at the center of controversy as his work supporting gun rights is questioned for undisclosed ties to pro-gun interests. The New York Times investigation reveals his influence in legal cases challenging gun restrictions and raises concerns about his impartiality and academic integrity.
The gun lobby’s hidden hand in supposedly nonpartisan, scholarly gun research, and now some judges are calling it out. https://t.co/dPRIdcNujx https://t.co/PiTHjHHJQu
Justice Barrett's concurrence in Vidal v. Elster from last week is another data point for my view that she's the most interesting Justice on the Court right now. https://t.co/bIsIiMaqYD https://t.co/GOHAPTBzyY
Justice Barrett nails Thomas on this one: Amy Coney Barrett Breaks With Supreme Court Originalists https://t.co/pOlQweGkrD Follow @newrepublic https://t.co/qPmicPWsGe
An excellent analysis of a significant--and slightly surprising--concurrence from ACB. Amy Coney Barrett Breaks With Supreme Court Originalists https://t.co/d34EbRsMKV Follow @newrepublic
I think it’s unlikely there would be 5 votes to affirm the 5th Circuit no matter the approach used, but Justice Barrett’s increasing frustration with history & tradition alone maybe signals that Rahimi could be more fractured on methodology going forward. https://t.co/21e6jY0ogP
NEW: What are Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett fighting about? And does a major Supreme Court gun-rights case hang in the balance? https://t.co/Nyi2QJnmc3 #SCOTUS
Read @joshgerstein on Barrett, Thomas and an emerging fight among Supreme Court conservatives over how to use history https://t.co/MikGWPY9Xl
Amy Coney Barrett may be poised to split conservatives on the Supreme Court https://t.co/q2bbTkMtLT
Gun rights activists have won legal victories against firearm restrictions using the seemingly independent work of a Georgetown University professor. But he has undisclosed ties to pro-gun interests, The New York Times found. https://t.co/QkC58NIfNv https://t.co/4DZE1FVHZQ
This from @jodikantor & @mmcintire must-read story on William English's possibly dubious pro-gun research is making me scratch my head. How did Thomas keep Bruen *that* extreme (invalidating all gun regs lacking historical analogues) in the face of reluctance from Roberts & Kav? https://t.co/6JMZDpvxvB
This @jodikantor @mmcintire story is absolutely HUGE news in firearms law world. It's hard to convey the extent to which this research--unpublished & not peer-reviewed--has impacted gun litigation. He was cited *by name* in the Bruen oral arguments! https://t.co/lLHvcYBQQ9
This is a very strange NYT piece, given the first quote they use to critique the Georgetown professor comes from a Duke scholar whose position is currently funded by a prominent donor to gun-control initiatives. A common practice in this space. https://t.co/i6JsuaSH3w
The Gun Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the 2nd Amendment Battle: Case after case challenging gun restrictions cites the same Georgetown professor. His seemingly independent work has undisclosed ties to pro-gun interests. https://t.co/5F9FwaSUfn
I've never heard of this professor, and I don't follow 2nd Am law, but it's fascinating that the New York Times gave page A1 coverage, and a 2-pg spread inside, about one professor's alleged bias (which seems mostly that he did some paid consulting). https://t.co/icFPVIuXp5
This article (hit piece) is disgusting because it implies Dr. English is somehow corrupt for being an expert for the gun rights side several times, but does not mention that we see the same slate of "experts" for the government over and over. Cornell, Vorenberg, Spitzer, Rivas,… https://t.co/ZQbqwJIfg6
New in PN: Unpacking Clarence Thomas's disgraceful joke of a bump stock opinion, which "reads like a newspaper comment section after every mass shooting, where gun nuts engage in hyper-technical explanations of how AR-15s aren’t actually assault weapons." https://t.co/x9ibgK22Yc
Just published: in the battle to dismantle gun restrictions, one name keeps coming up in briefs and rulings. How did he get so influential, and is he really an impartial academic? A story about facts, money, guns and the law, by Mike McIntyre & me: https://t.co/ylmAC6PVeN
Case after case challenging gun restrictions cites the same Georgetown professor: William English. His seemingly independent work has undisclosed ties to pro-gun interests. https://t.co/WkM76sQi4w