Interesting grants of cert.
Discussion here. Four very interesting cases. And that doesn't count NYSRPA v. NY, or the census question case (and the Supremes just asked for briefing on a new aspect of that, whether adding the question on citizenship violates the enumeration clause of Article I, sec. 2, which underlies the census, and simply refers to taking an enumeration of the people for allocating House seats.
A guess as to why the Court wants that added -- what if some Justices are of the mind that a power to take an enumeration of the people does not include doing anything else? You can count heads, but not ask much else?
Another possibility, and I'm not familiar enough with the case to know this.... might it challenge not only asking the question, but whether non-citizens should be excluded from the count? If so, there might be an issue as to whether a population is enumerated when certain persons are not counted. But if that was an issue, I'd have expected plaintiffs to raise it as Argument I, and not wait for the Court to raise the idea.
In any event, most Terms have a small number of interesting cases and a lot of uninteresting ones. It doesn't sound like October Term 2019 is going to be like that.
Citizens and subjects
Some thoughts on when citizens become subjects, highlighted by case studies of various nations.
"The Ceasefire in the War on Guns is Over"
David Keene, former president of NRA and of the American Conservative Union, will be giving a talk with that title at the Heartland Institute, on Tuesday, March 26, at 5:30-7:30 CDT. The Institute is in Arlington Heights, IL. You can get tickets here, and it may be podcast.
California: registered gun owners double in seven years
Story here. Pretty surprising, given the increasingly burdensome laws there. Given that, if ownership is steeply increasing in a place like California, it logically is increasing where it's easier to become a gun owner, this is a rebuttal to survey-based claims that fewer households are owning guns.