On June 21, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in the case of United States v. Rahimi. In an 8-to-1 majority, the Court upheld the federal prohibition of firearms by those subject to a domestic violence restraining order. On this episode of Policy Outsider, Jaclyn Schildkraut, executive director of the Institute’s Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium gets initial reactions to the decision from Consortium members Liz Tobin-Tyler, associate professor of health services policy and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, and Kaitlin Sidorsky, associate professor of political science and public policy at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The conversation provides an overview of the ruling, what the concurrence and dissent opinions signal about how the court is interpreting the Second Amendment, and what comes next on the national stage for firearm and domestic violence policy.

Guests:

• Jaclyn Schildkraut, Executive Director, Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium


• Liz Tobin-Tyler, Associate Professor of Health Services Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health


• Kaitlin Sidorsky, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Ramapo College of New Jersey