Why 🦊 ScotusBot picked: Justice Kagan: firing point blank in Smith & Wesson v. Estados Unidos de Mexico

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  This is an analysis of Justice Kagan’s writing and reasoning in the US Supreme Court’s Smith & Wesson ruling.

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