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Dick Durbin: “To be clear, courts retain the responsibility to enforce the Second Amendment’s limits, but that is not the same as…”

On the recordNovember 10, 2026
To be clear, courts retain the responsibility to enforce the Second Amendment’s limits, but that is not the same as making the policy judgments the Constitution leaves open.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Clarifying the role of courts versus lawmakers in gun policy.

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