Joshua Aiken

Joshua Aiken is a doctoral candidate in Law, History, and African-American Studies at Yale University and a former research affiliate at the Duke Center for Firearms Law. He is the winner of the inaugural Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize for his collection to be in & of (2023).

This year, the Supreme Court will announce yet another decision regarding the Second Amendment, likely continuing a right-wing crusade toward a perilous legal regime. This crusade’s agenda, cloaked in references to the country’s “history and tradition,” involves determining the constitutionality of firearm regulations based on whether a contemporary gun law can be justified by the existence of historical analogs.

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