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Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Controversial Gun Case That Could Allow Abusers To Possess Guns

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to settle the question of whether domestic abusers subject to protective orders can possess guns, when it agreed to review United States v. Zackey Rahimi — a hugely controversial case that may help clarify widespread confusion over how to interpret the court’s bombshell Second Amendment ruling from last year.

The court issued a new standard for judging the constitutionality of gun laws in last year’s Bruen v. New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, which overturned a New York law dating back to 1911 that barred people from carrying a handgun without a license. Under that law, New York could deny a license to applicants who failed to prove they faced a specific threat.

The ruling written by Justice Clarence Thomas and supported by the court’s five other conservatives said the law infringed on the right to bear arms. The decision also trashed the old standard of balancing interests like public safety against an individual’s Second Amendment rights, instead dictating that firearm restrictions are constitutional only when they’re “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”

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But Rahimi, represented by federal public defenders, appealed the conviction. When a panel of three justices reviewed the case after the Bruen decision, they looked for the historical analogy that the Supreme Court now demands to uphold the constitutionality of gun restrictions, and didn’t find one. Two of the three justices were appointed by Trump