Political Quotes

All of the Second Amendment case law you’re familiar with, Heller, Bruen, et cetera, Miller, is merely persuasive authority.

That means no one has had a legal dispute that will turn on the questions that this case will turn on before.

And famously, Mason said, we are the militia. They are the whole people, and that was never disputed in that time period and the Commonwealth didn’t dispute that.

I started, particularly here at the 250th anniversary [of Virginia’s constitution being adopted], by reflecting on sections one, two, and three of the Declaration of Rights, which were adopted at the same time as Section 13.