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America Supreme Court has agreed to listen to the President’s bid donald trumpadministration related to a federal Law that which prohibits persons those who use illegal drugs from taking possession firearmsit law This is specifically one of those that Joe Biden’s son Hunter in 2023 was accused of.
The judge will consider an appeal Justice Department Against a lower court ruling in the Texas case involving dual US-Pakistani citizen Ali Hemani.
Hemani was charged with violating the gun ban, which the lower court ruled was largely inconsistent with the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” of the US Constitution.
The Supreme Court’s decision is expected by the end of June.
The case stems from a charge of illegal gun possession that federal prosecutors brought against Hemani, described as a regular marijuana user, after the FBI found a pistol of his during a 2022 raid on the home he shared with his parents in Denton County, Texas. Authorities did not allege that Hemani was drunk at the time the gun was found.
In a filing with the Supreme Court, the Justice Department said Hemani’s actions had “attracted the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation” and noted his trip to Iran, his brother’s attendance at an Iranian university, and comments by his mother about her sons.
The filing did not specify a reason for the raid at the family home. The Justice Department said agents found a Glock 9mm pistol, 60 grams of marijuana and 4.7 grams of cocaine. The 2023 indictment did not include any charges related to Hemani’s gun possession and illegal drug use.
Hemani rejected the charge, saying it was a violation of his Second Amendment rights. He also cited the stringent test set by the Supreme Court in its 2022 decision that gun laws consistent with the Second Amendment would be “consistent with the nation’s historic tradition of firearms regulation.”
Hemani’s attorney, Zachary Newland, expressed disappointment that the court agreed to hear the Trump administration’s appeal.
“However, we are hopeful that the government’s case will be dismissed once the Supreme Court is able to hear Mr. Hemani’s case on the merits,” Newland said. “Mr. Hemani’s case involves important fundamental constitutional rights that we believe will ultimately be vindicated.”
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The ban on gun ownership by users of illegal drugs was part of the landmark Gun Control Act of 1968. One of the charges against Hunter Biden in the indictment received by Special Counsel David Weiss in September 2023 accused him of violating this statute. Prosecutors accused the president’s son of lying about drug use when purchasing a Colt Cobra handgun in October 2018. Hunter Biden was found guilty by a jury in Wilmington, Delaware in June 2024, becoming the first child of a sitting US president to be convicted of a crime. Joe Biden, a Democrat, issued a presidential pardon in December 2024 for his son, who was a recovering drug addict and had become a frequent target of Republicans, including Trump.
In the Hemani case, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a charge of illegal gun possession in January, ruling that “there is no historical justification for disarming a peaceful citizen who is not currently under the influence.”
Trump’s administration appealed to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to adopt a rule that would allow illegal gun possession charges to be brought against “habitual users” of illegal drugs.