The court ruled that the law used to prosecute a marijuana user violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms and is unconstitutionally vague.
The justices sided with a Texas gun owner who faced criminal charges after admitting to marijuana use argued that a federal gun law violated the Second Amendment.
The Supreme Court endorsed a marijuana user's challenge to a law that bars people who consume illegal drugs from having firearms, the same law that Hunter Biden was convicted under.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday to televise Supreme Court proceedings, a step long resisted by the high court’s justices but sought by open government advocates.
The decision sides with Texas marijuana user who challenged his prosecution.
Two Supreme Court cases could fire up a battle over Trump's authority to remove federal officials, potentially reshaping presidential power.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a Texas man who challenged a federal law that bars certain drug users from having firearms.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday the government can’t criminally prosecute a man for possessing a firearm simply because he regularly smoked marijuana, rejecting the government’s comparison to the disarmament habitual drunkards in the founding era. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that it violates his right to keep arms under the conservative justices’ expanded Second Amendment test. It…
The Supreme Court ruled the government can’t criminally prosecute a man for possessing a firearm simply because he regularly smoked marijuana, in a unanimous decision Thursday. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that it violates his right to keep arms under the conservative justices’ expanded Second Amendment test. “To square that expansive theory with the Second Amendment, the government [...]