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  • The Supreme Court denied certiorari in a case upholding a Chicago suburb's ban on semiautomatic "assault weapons." Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Scalia, authored a dissent from the certiorari denial. Read more at USA Today.
  • The Wall Street Journal published a preview of this week's arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas. Read the piece here.