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Originalism: Its Problems and Its Promise
In 2016 federal prosecutors charged Terance Gamble with violating the federal law prohibiting felons from possessing firearms. Gamble’s case could hardly have been more run-of-the-mill; federal prosecutors bring thousands of these felon-in-possession cases each year. Yet Gamble argued that because he had already pleaded guilty in Alabama to a