The sole case before the Supreme Court on Monday, March 2, will be a long-overdue collision between the Second Amendment and the drug war. US v. Hemani puts President Donald Trump’s administration in league with the gun grabbers and in opposition to freedom advocates. Justices will decide whether federal laws prohibiting the “possession of firearms by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” violate the Second Amendment.
Like abortion or religion in the public square, gun cases always pack the house at the Supreme Court, and this one offers another angle of interest – a hard split in the conservative and libertarian coalition that led to Trump’s election. Mr. Ali Hemani was prosecuted not for being intoxicated or high while armed, but for being a person who had used marijuana as a gun owner. It’s a nuance that means everything to the conservatarians, even if it seems to be a distinction without a difference to the straight conservatives.
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