Retiring Breyer and Alito spar over ideological lines in Supreme Court gun ruling

Published June 23, 2022 12:00am ET



Justice Stephen Breyer’s mention of mass shootings across the United States prompted a scathing rebuttal from Justice Samuel Alito over the Supreme Court opinion released Thursday that overturned a New York gun restriction law for violating the Second Amendment.

In his dissent, joined by Democratic-appointed Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, Breyer argued, “The dangers posed by firearms can take many forms,” tacking on a list of shootings in the country, including the recent attacks in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York.

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