The most cogent principle that can be drawn from traditional limitations on the right to keep and bear arms is that dangerous persons likely to use firearms for illicit purposes were not understood to be protected by the Second Amendment. — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps. — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home. — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators. — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
In the legislative branch, you make the laws... and our role as judges is to interpret the law, not to inject our own policy… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
The threshold question in a Second Amendment challenge is one of scope: whether the Second Amendment protects the person, the weapon, or the activity… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
I volunteered at Ayuda, in the office, on a regular basis, and I did everything from fingerprinting and interviewing persons of Hispanic origin who… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it. — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
I think any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the will of… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
If I were able to do something unilaterally, I would probably institute a new federal rule that said all cases worth less than $500,000… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
New Jersey has decided that fewer handguns legally carried in public means less crime. It is obvious that the justifiable need requirement functions as… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
