Supreme Court Rejects Gun Ban for Certain People Using Certain Drugs

Jackson’s Hemani Concurrence Rips Bruen, Calls for Means-End Restoration

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the Bruen Second Amendment test in her United States v. Hemani concurrence. Those who thought the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in United States v. Hemani, striking down the federal prohibition on gun ownership by anyone using marijuana was too good to be true, need only to carefully read the concurring opinion from liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to restore their skepticism. Jackson’s five-pag…

Supreme Court Rejects Gun Ban for Certain People Using Certain Drugs

On June 18, the Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot automatically ban people who use drugs from owning firearms. The justices voted 9-0 to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a federal gun possession charge in United States v. Hemani. The decision simultaneously undercuts the Trump administration’s stance on gun ownership while supporting its evolving stance on marijuana, though still leaving a lot of room for the ban to apply to user…

Bloomberg Columnist Takes the Jackson Approach to Hemani Decision

Analysis of the Hemani decision and its impact on Second Amendment gun rights and Supreme Court tests.

Hemani: proving the reason, not just naming it

It’s not often that opinions written by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Samuel Alito agree on how to decide a Second Amendment case. In United States v. Hemani they did, though each took a slightly different road to get there. The majority looked to the justifications behind Founding-era historical analogues. Jackson would have used means-end scrutiny. Alito would have said as little as possible beyond the government’s failure …

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U.S. Supreme Court Reins in the Federal Government, Rules Automatic Gun Ban for Marijuana Users Is Unconstitutional - Gateway Hispanic

On June 18, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ali Danial Hemani, a Texas resident and dual U.S.-Pakistani citizen, holding that applying the federal firearm ban to users of controlled substances violated his Second Amendment rights. The ruling narrows the scope of the 1968 federal law (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone who is an “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance.” Although t…