Killing Slaughterhouse: Understanding the controversial 1873 decision at the center of the Supreme Court’s upcoming gun rights fight
Reason: “Gura explained in an earlier interview with Reason what that decision did to the Privileges or Immunities Clause: ‘The Slaughterhouse Cases declared pretty much that the only privileges and immunities protected by the 14th Amendment are those of national citizenship, rights that accrue out of the existence of the federal government, like the right to a passport or right to travel the waterways of the U.S. or to petition Congress.’ . . . By choosing to tell the Supreme Court that it should recognize Second Amendment rights as among the privileges or immunities the 14th Amendment was meant to protect, Gura is asking the Court to overturn Slaughterhouse. “