{"id":24692,"date":"2025-09-29T16:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=24692"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:34:51","slug":"a-timely-look-at-the-constitution-in-the-trump-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=24692","title":{"rendered":"A Timely Look at the Constitution in the Trump Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"svelte-ajdmz9\"><strong>Second Amendment <\/strong>The Second Amendment has two clauses, and scholars differ about how they interact. The first concerns \u201ca well-regulated militia,\u201d the second \u201cthe right of the people to keep and bear arms.\u201d In decisions Mr. Trump has strongly endorsed, the Supreme Court has ruled that the amendment protects an individual right, not tied to militia service, for law-abiding people to keep guns for self-defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Amendment The Second Amendment has two clauses, and scholars differ about how they interact. The first concerns \u201ca well-regulated militia,\u201d the second \u201cthe right of the people to keep and bear arms.\u201d In decisions Mr. Trump has strongly endorsed, the Supreme Court has ruled that the amendment protects an individual right, not tied to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[12485,6338,14979,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-24692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-constitution","9":"tag-era","10":"tag-timely","11":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}