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SCOTUS Unanimously Ruled That the Second Amendment Trumps Anti-Drug Sentiment

The decision is a modest but welcome step toward rectifying the injustice of criminalizing conduct that violates no one’s rights.

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Clarence Thomas Explains Why the Commerce Clause Cannot Justify Federal Bans on Gun Possession

Even under the Supreme Court's highly elastic understanding of that clause, Thomas says, such laws do not qualify as regulation of interstate commerce.

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Fiddlers, Drunkards, Marijuana, and the Second Amendment

The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Hemani.

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Supreme Court Makes It Clear There Is No Drug Exception to the Second Amendment

The unanimous decision upholding the gun rights of cannabis consumers is striking given the Supreme Court's long history of accommodating the war on drugs.

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How the ACLU Started Defending the Second Amendment

The civil liberties group, which long maintained that there is no constitutional right to arms, is singing a different tune at the Supreme Court.

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Civil Libertarians Left and Right Unite To Oppose Disarming Cannabis Consumers

A Supreme Court case illustrates the potential for trans-partisan alliances between critics of gun control and critics of the war on drugs.

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An Iowa Pot User Serving 4 Years for Gun Possession Gets Another Chance To Challenge His Prosecution

Alexander Ledvina was convicted of violating a federal law at the center of a Second Amendment case that the Supreme Court is considering.

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SCOTUS Seems Skeptical of the Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Cannabis Consumers

Most of the justices seemed unsatisfied by the Trump administration's argument that the law is constitutional as applied to a Texas marijuana user.

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The ACLU, Long Leery of the Second Amendment, Joins the NRA in Urging SCOTUS To Uphold Pot Users' Gun Rights

"We see this as an important civil liberties issue," says an ACLU lawyer.

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Disarming Millions of Americans Simply Because They Use Marijuana Is Unconstitutional, a SCOTUS Brief Says

The Liberty Justice Center is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a 5th Circuit decision rejecting the claim that cannabis consumers have no Second Amendment rights.

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Supreme Court likely to reject limits on concealed carry but uphold bans on gun possession by drug users

The U.S. Supreme Court in early 2026 will hear oral arguments in two cases testing the limits of gun rights under the Constitution.

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19 States That Legalized Marijuana Use Nevertheless Say It Should Disqualify People From Owning Guns

They are joining the Trump administration in urging the Supreme Court to uphold a federal law that disarms "unlawful" drug consumers.

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SCOTUS Will Consider the Constitutionality of the Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Illegal Drug Users

The law applies to millions of Americans who pose no plausible threat to public safety, including cannabis consumers in states that have legalized marijuana.

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He Faced a Terrorism Probe, Went to Jail on a Gun Charge, and Now Is Charged With Drug Possession

Although the FBI never produced evidence that Ali Hemani was a threat to national security, it seems determined to imprison him by any means necessary.

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