Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion to Thursday’s US Supreme Court decision striking down New York’s conceal carry gun law might provide liberal lower court judges a way to uphold state gun control laws.
How much weight the concurrence, which Chief Justice John Roberts joined, will carry depends on the court that’s hearing future cases.
“I hate painting with too broad a brush, but I would think that the Second Circuit would probably put a lot of weight on that concurrence,” Raffi Melkonian, a partner and appellate lawyer at Wright Close & Barger, said of the New York-based appeals court.
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