🚨 DOJ has asked SCOTUS to review the Fifth Circuit's ruling in US v. Rahimi that invalidated 🧵

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Jake Charles
@JacobDCharles

🚨 Acting on a "a highly expedited schedule," DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit's ruling in US v. Rahimi that invalidated the federal law barring those under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing guns. 🚨

Petition: https://bit.ly/42nZy36

If the Court does agree to hear the case, which seems like a real possibility, we could have our first post-Bruen test of how aligned the conservative justices are over the scope of the 2nd Am & the breadth of Bruen's test.

This is the case where the judges on the 5th Circuit declared that our ancestors would have considered it unthinkable to ban guns from domestic abusers--& therefore modern regulations doing so are unconstitutional. Here's my earlier threads on the case. 👇

🚨 The 5th Circuit just said govt cant temporarily disarm a person found to pose a threat to another & subject to a DV restraining order.

Jake Charles
@JacobDCharles

I wrote this @thehill op-ed on the problems with the 5th Circuit's analysis--that it was problematic not only for how it applied Bruen's test, but for what it exposed about Bruen's test.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3859203-the-founders-didnt-disarm-domestic-abusers-does-that-mean-we-cant/

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