US EditionSupreme Court to decide if drug users can carry guns
The Supreme Court will decide if the federal ban on gun possession by habitual illegal drug users, affecting millions, violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
- The US Supreme Court will consider whether a law banning habitual illegal drug users from possessing guns violates the Constitution.
- The government argues the law is valid when applied to regular drug users as they pose a public safety risk, while Hemani's lawyers argue it infringes on Second Amendment rights.
- The appeals court ruled that the law violated the Second Amendment, but the Department of Justice appealed to the Supreme Court for a final decision.
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The Gun Rights of Drug Users Are Up for Grabs at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would review a Second Amendment case that challenged a federal law forbidding drug use by gun owners, revisiting the history-and-tradition test in one of the most widely invoked gun restrictions in the country.The case, United States v. Hemani, is the second major Second Amendment case that the justices have taken up this term. Earlier this month the court also agreed to review a Hawaii law on the de…
Supreme Court will weigh gun restrictions for drug users
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would consider a Second Amendment challenge to the federal law barring drug users and addicts from having a gun, in a case testing the statute used to convict President Joe Biden’s son Hunter last year.
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
US Supreme Court to weigh law barring drug users from owning guns
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration in a case out of Texas to defend a federal law that bars users of illegal drugs from owning guns — one of the statutes under which former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was charged in 2023.
U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gun ownership by drug abusers
Read: 2 min The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a challenge to a federal law prohibiting abusers of illegal drugs from owning firearms. The conservative-dominated court will decide whether the law violates the Second Amendment, which protects the constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear arms. The statute was used to convict Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, on gun charges last year before he was pardoned by the then-president.…
St Louis Post-Dispatch
Supreme Court agrees to hear gun case next year
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.
Pulse of Politics: SCOTUS takes on cannabis and guns & talkin' tariffs
The Supreme Court weighs the question of if people who regularly smoke cannabis should be allowed to legally own a gun. Frank Marra with Greenhouse of Walled Lake weighs in on that, plus reaction to the 24% wholesale cannabis tax. Plus, Automotive Leaders Podcast host and former auto supply chain executive Jan Griffiths joins Pulse of Politics host Aaron Jordan to talk about the latest involving President Trump's import taxes.
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