Commentaries by Thomas Warns

Georgia's Concealed Carry Expansion: A Victory for Individual Rights

April 30, 2014 03:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Thomas Warns, New York University School of Law, Class of 2015, discusses Georgia's Safe Carry Protection Act and the balance it strikes between rights to private property and self-defense...Georgia Governor Nathan Deal recently signed into law a...

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Ku Klux Klan trials began in South Carolina

On November 28, 1871, Ku Klux Klan trials began in US District Court in South Carolina as part of a federal effort to halt growing White violence in the former Confederate states. Learn more about the Ku Klux Klan trials.

New Zealand women vote for the first time in a general election

On November 28, 1893, women voted in New Zealand elections for the first time.