Santa Clara University School of Law professor Deep Gulasekaram has been interviewed by multiple news outlets.
Politico’s “Supreme Court impasse on immigration threatens ‘Dreamers,’ too” included quotes from Prof. Gulasekaram in an article about the SCOTUS Immigration Ruling’s effect on individuals who lriginally benefited from the plan:
“Technically, there’s no legal consequence for DACA and it was not part of the challenge … but the legal claim being made here is one that could have been applied to DACA,” said Deep Gulasekaram, a law professor at Santa Clara University. “The ruling from the 5th Circuit that states can bring these cases to federal court is going to embolden other challenges. You could easily see a possible challenge to DACA on this same, exact basis, using states as a proxy for making the claim that the executive is doing Congress’ work.”
Prof. Gulasekaram was also quoted in “The Facts and Fallacies of the AR-15” by NBC Bay Area about the Second Amendment and the right to own an assault rifle:
Santa Clara Law Professor Deep Gulasekaram specializes in Second Amendment rights, and says determining the constitutionality of this style of weapon is not simple.
“The Second Amendment doesn’t protect ownership of any particular kind of gun, or any particular type of weapon,” Gulasekaram said.
To be clear, handguns cannot be banned outright. But after that, the judicial precedent is very limited.
Gulasekaram references the District of Columbia v. Heller case of 2008, in which the Supreme Court rejected an outright ban on handguns in D.C. as unconstitutional.
But before Heller, the court had gone decades without taking a case on gun rights, dating back possibly as far as the 1930’s, according to Gulasekaram.
