The Supreme Court takes up ANOTHER gun case

[In It to Win It]

The Supreme Court takes up ANOTHER gun case, asking whether the Second Amendment allows the government to disarm a person convicted of unlawful drug abuse.

The 5th Circuit said no (of course); I think SCOTUS will say yes, disarming such a person is fine.
www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T13:34:14.821Z

Honestly kind of incredible that the 5th Circuit decided THIS person has a right to bear arms ... far-right Republican judges become woke as hell when a terrorist-sympathizing, drug-dealing cocaine addict demands the right to own a Glock. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T13:38:09.872Z

Correction: This case asks whether the government can disarm a person ACCUSED of illegally abusing drugs, not only convicted of it.

I still think SCOTUS will say yes. After all, it allowed the government to disarm people accused (but not convicted) of domestic abuse in Rahimi, 8–1.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T13:50:52.427Z

JUST IN: SCOTUS will decide in United States v. Hemani whether the statute that bars addicts from possessing firearms violated the 2nd amendment. This is the same charge Hunter Biden faced.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T13:37:38.917Z

BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to hear three new cases, including a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that prohibits drug addicts from possessing firearms (United States v. Hemani, No. 24-1234). #SCOTUS
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

— Katie Buehler (@bykatiebuehler.bsky.social) 2025-10-20T13:36:01.619Z

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

I was just reading about this.

KYW NEWSRADIO * NEWS * BUSINESS

Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

By The Associated Press
8 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said on Monday that 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.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the justices to revive a case against a Texas man charged with a felony because he allegedly had a gun in his home and acknowledged being a regular pot user. The Justice Department appealed after a lower court largely struck down a law that bars people who use any illegal drugs from having guns.

The Republican administration favors Second Amendment rights, but government attorneys argued that this ban is a justifiable restriction.

They asked the court to reinstate a case against Ali Danial Hemani. His lawyers got the felony charge tossed out after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the blanket ban is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s expanded view of gun rights. The appellate judges found it could still be used against people accused of being high and armed at the same time, though.

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[chicoescuela]

2. tsf is coming for all their guns, they just don't realize that yet. all good dictators do.

[multigraincracker]

3. How about the same for alcohol?

I’d feel safer around a stoned person with gun than a drunk.