The attorney, who defended Hawaii’s “vampire rule,” further contended that the debate around the Black Codes in the 1800s also proved that it was understood at the time “you have no right to carry a firearm onto someone’s property absent their consent.” Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson defended the references to the Black Codes, arguing they were being referenced to satisfy a legal test required in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen case, which nixed the Empire State’s old “special cause” requirements for people to get a license to carry a handgun. Chief Justice John Roberts pointed to examples of how people have an assumed right to walk up to a gas station on the side of the highway or go up to people’s homes to hand out leaflets.
Author: Ryan King
Published at: 2026-01-20 23:12:34
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