NRA CRDF Next Generation Scholars Seminar, 2012: Dave Hardy, Congressional implementation

Congresssional Implementation

Dave Hardy spoke on “Congressional Implementation under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment.” Many of the young scholars at the Scholars Seminar were too young to remember what it took to enforce Brown. If the Executive branch doesn't want to enforce what the Supreme Court has said, and if lower courts want to ignore what the Supreme Court has said, the other avenue is Congress.

Dave Hardy: Congressional Implementation under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment

See also Options for Protection of 2nd Amendment Rights by Congressional Legislation. ("tab # 11" in seminar book)
See also Congressman Mac Thornberry on H.R. 822, "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011" (audio/video).
See also H.R. 822 (with jurisdiction obtained pursuant to the Commerce Clause, as with 18 U.S. Code § 926A, interstate transportation of firearms).
See also Stephen R. McAllister, Individual Rights under a System of Dual Soverighty: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 59 U. KAN. L. REV. 867 (2011).

Reading suggested in advance of seminar:
(1) City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997).
Consider specifically the limitation on Congressional power created by the Boerne decision.

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The seminar was hosted by the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund,
a 501(c)(3) charitable/educational entity,
established by the NRA Board of Directors in 1978.