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Jake Charles

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Law prof, Pepperdine Law; Affiliated Scholar, Duke Center for Firearms Law. I write about constitutional law, especially the Second Amendment. Bio: https://t.co/yVUcs14NoK Papers: http://bit.ly/3HleQND

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · May 27

🧵 Exciting to have my new Penn Law Review piece on Ancillary Rights published! Many thanks to lots of people for feedback & criticism, esp. @danielrice.bsky.social for helping organize my thoughts.

The piece unpacks how & when rights extend to related conduct--

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Rockefeller Institute of Government @rockefellerinst.bsky.social · 20h

RGVRC Affiliate Scholar @jacobdcharles.bsky.social provides an excellent overview of this case in our April '22 blog 👇
rockinst.org/blog/missour...

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier this summer, I presented Textualism Step Zero at the Harvard-Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum

I begin with a confession of my failures and say something about a failure in textualism-hey, and this is different for me-even a way to fix that for textualism!

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abstract of my paper Textualism Step Zero

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 2d

Important rundown on the new Second Amendment case the Court will hear this term ⬇️⬇️

firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/10/what...

What’s at Stake in Wolford? Supreme Court Grants Cert to Review Hawaii’s Sensitive Places Law | Duke Center for Firearms Law

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 2d

Yupp

Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 3d

Agree with that - & that it’s just confirming that what Trump/Miller want to impose on schools is not some mandate for them to be viewpoint diverse, but for them to hire people who will say what Trump is doing is good and right and lawful

Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 3d

I’m all for intellectual diversity in the academy — I just wish we could have an honest conversation about its existence, its relation to other forms of diversity in law schools, its causes, remedial proposals if there’s a problem, etc

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that there are *multiple* law professors falling over themselves to be Trump’s Carl Schmitt ought to firmly dispel the notion that the academy systematically excludes conservatives from its ranks.

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 4d

Just wait till the headline “Supreme Court temporarily halts lower court order blocking Trump’s flag-burning executive order”

Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 5d

🚨The Supreme Court just granted review in a new Seocnd Amendment case out of Hawaii, asking whether the state can flip the property default rule for carrying guns on private property.

Here’s the petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social · 5d

Our Center on the Structural Constitution, led by @crockeroncourts.bsky.social and Neil Siegel, has organized an amazing symposium with the Harvard Law Review on the politics and law of judicial review. And the best news is that you can attend online!

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Judicial Review in Jeopardy? Symposium - Harvard Law Review

The Harvard Law Review is proud to host, in collaboration with the Center on the Structural Constitution at Texas A&M University School of Law,...

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 5d

Really fascinating piece that further demonstrates the courts’—& especially the 5th Circuit’s—Second Amendment exceptionalism

Aliza Hochman Bloom @ahochmanbloom.bsky.social · 5d

I've posted a draft essay, titled "The Emerging Firearms Hypocrisy of Terry," which is forthcoming in @stanlrev.bsky.social. It discusses this summer's decision in U.S. v. Wilson and problematic privileging of 2A rights in 4A analysis. Comments are welcome!
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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 6d

It’s good but…seems in the same spirit as other commentary that lays excessive (imho) blame/credit at the feet of Bluesky. Also—& maybe this’ll just confirm I’m Bluesky-pilled—but I can’t wrap my head around this: “a not-entirely-justified perception that Democrats are not fighting hard enough.”

Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, it’s just usually I see that formulation as “passed by Congress and signed by the President” or similar.

Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 7d

Hadn't noticed this before in Kavanaugh's Vasquez-Perdomo concurrence, but...is this not suggesting that the President, like Congress, possesses lawmaking power over immigration?

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 7d

Holy smokes - never seen that kind of epigraph-like note on an opinion before!

Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 7d

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States –- you and me --
have our magnificent Constitution.
Here’s how that works out in a
specific case –- "

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 8d

Important 2A cases to watch as we await the orders list from the Supreme Court's Long Conference.

firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/09/a-se...

A Second Amendment Preview of the Supreme Court’s Long Conference | Duke Center for Firearms Law

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 8d

Just pre-ordered! Can't wait to read the whole thing.

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 8d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 8d

I see that's your thing now, wowguy

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 8d

🙏

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 11d

Charles on Equity, CASA, and History and Tradition, buff.ly/BvqSHQ1 - Jacob D. Charles (Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law) has posted Equity’s Bruen Moment: Trump v. CASA and Lessons for the Future of History & Tradition (77 Fla. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN.

Charles on Equity, CASA, and History and Tradition

acob D. Charles (Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law) has posted Equity’s Bruen Moment: Trump v. CASA and Lessons for the Future of History & Tradition (77 Fla. L. Rev. __…

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 11d

Great to see the pieces from SMU L Rev's 2024 symposium on the 2nd Am now live!

My paper draws out lessons from the Court's 1987 decision in US v. Salerno for 2A doctrine--both its disfavoring of facial challenges *&* its focus on the very interests Bruen rejects.

scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol78/...

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 11d

I confess I’m surprised to see dismissal instead of a commendation for this kind of behavior, but it’s a welcome (if new, perhaps) response to unwarranted violence.

ICE Officer ‘Relieved of His Duties’ After Pushing Woman to Floor www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

ICE Officer ‘Relieved of His Duties’ After Pushing Woman to Floor

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve only read Amar’s and skimmed Godar; haven’t read Chauvin’s yet.

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah I am never gonna make confident assertions in this context. & the fact that we’ve got Neagle from a bajillion years ago and a vacated 9th Circuit case from a few decades ago among the things Erwin cites as structuring the analysis suggests to me there’s a lot of gray.

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