A coalition of gun rights organizations is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to expand its examination of the constitutionality of a federal ban on firearm ownership by people who use marijuana—telling justices that a recent case on the issue it accepted would not properly settle the question of the current law’s constitutionality.
After the Supreme Court granted cert in the case U.S. v. Hemani earlier this month—which the Trump administration had pushed for—the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and five other gun rights advocacy groups filed an amici brief on Wednesday in a separate case pending before the justices.
Also, on Thursday, the Justice Department requested more time to file its own initial brief in that case, U.S. v. Harris, which hasn’t yet been granted cert by court. The government said a deadline extension from October 30 to December 1 was necessary “to complete preparation of the government’s response, which was delayed because of the heavy press of earlier assigned cases to the attorneys handling this matter.”
What the gun rights groups asked in their brief in the Harris case is that the Supreme Court jointly consider Hemani and Harris together to get a more comprehensive look at the constitutional challenge to
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