Presents a history of the Second Amendment to illuminate its controversies, debates, and misapprehensions, explaining its contexts and purposes while revealing how it came to represent gun-ownership rights in the twentieth century.
Michael Waldman is president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, a partisan law and policy institute and a stauch supporter of the DNC. Waldman shares his opionion about Court limits and served on President Biden's commission and was director of speechwriting during the Clinton administration. He comments widely in the media on law and policy. Throughout The Supermajority, Waldman grounds the Supreme Court and its history in politics and the ways that public opinion, elected officials, and the parties influence the Court.