Printz v. United States
law case
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impact on Brady Law
role of Scalia
- In Antonin Scalia: Judicial philosophy
, his majority opinion in Printz v. United States (1997), in which he held that the federal government could not require state and local law-enforcement agencies to perform background checks on prospective gun owners; (2) the checks and balances imposed by the separation of powers—e.g., his lone dissent in Morrison…
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