US EditionThe Supreme Court is more interested in Second Amendment cases than ever before
The cases address whether states can restrict firearm carrying on private property and if drug users can constitutionally possess guns, amid nearly 3,000 post-Bruen challenges.
- With the Court back in session, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two Second Amendment cases this term, Wolford v. Lopez from Hawai‘i and United States v. Hemani from Texas, involving private-property carry and drug-use disqualification.
- After Bruen reshaped the legal landscape, courts nationwide have produced divergent rulings, with lower courts deciding nearly 3,000 Bruen-related challenges and conflicting appeals from the 9th and 2nd Circuit Courts prompting Supreme Court review.
- In Hemani, court records show the defendant faced multiple drug-related allegations that complicate a clean ruling on drug-use disqualifications, and the case will test the Trump administration’s gun‑rights restoration process revived after decades of disuse.
- Decisions favoring one side could reshape enforcement and obligations for business owners at private property and prosecutors, with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ drug-use standard narrowing federal ban applications.
- Bruen’s history‑and‑tradition framework remains central, and the U.S. Supreme Court limited Wolford’s reach on later historical periods; hearing two Second Amendment cases in one term signals increased judicial focus despite other declined petitions.
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The Supreme Court is more interested in Second Amendment cases than ever before
Chip Somodevilla // Getty Images With the Supreme Court back in session, the justices are preparing to weigh two Second Amendment challenges. One will look at whether it is constitutional to restrict people from carrying firearms on private property, and the other concerns drug use and gun rights. For a court that’s taken less than a dozen Second Amendment challenges in its 230-year history, two in one year is unprecedented. “This is a real in…
The Supreme Court is more interested in Second Amendment cases than ever before
Chip Somodevilla // Getty Images With the Supreme Court back in session, the justices are preparing to weigh two Second Amendment challenges. One will look at whether it is constitutional to restrict people from carrying firearms on private property, and the other concerns drug use and gun rights. For a court that’s taken less than a dozen Second Amendment challenges in its 230-year history, two in one year is unprecedented. “This is a real in…
The Supreme Court is more interested in Second Amendment cases than ever before
Chip Somodevilla // Getty Images With the Supreme Court back in session, the justices are preparing to weigh two Second Amendment challenges. One will look at whether it is constitutional to restrict people from carrying firearms on private property, and the other concerns drug use and gun rights. For a court that’s taken less than a dozen Second Amendment challenges in its 230-year history, two in one year is unprecedented. “This is a real in…
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