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Process Over Outcomes

The Supreme Court’s upcoming Second Amendment case is just as much about due process.
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A pro-gun advocate displays a poster on March 18, 2008 in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Over the coming months, you can expect to hear a great deal about United States v. Rahimi, the most important Second Amendment case that the Supreme Court will hear in its next term. And what you will hear is that this is a case about whether we take domestic violence seriously. 

It isn’t. It is a case about whether we take due process seriously.

Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.

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