The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice filed an amicus brief on Friday in support of a National Rifle Association’s lawsuit challenging Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban.

“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” DOJ Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon posted to X, pinning a copy of her department’s recently filed amicus brief.

The brief began by stating, “Three years ago, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision meant to break a habit developed by some States of treating the Second Amendment as ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other’ constitutional rights.”

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