The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of a federal law banning people who use marijuana or other controlled substances from buying or possessing firearms.
About two months after agreeing to take the case, justices on Friday set a date of March 2 to consider the conflicting arguments from the Justice Department, which has consistently defended the gun prohibition for cannabis consumers, and lawyers for Ali Danial Hemani, who is challenging the ban after being prosecuted under it.
Attorneys general for 19 states and Washington, D.C. recently filed a brief siding with the federal government in the case, U.S. v. Hemani, arguing that justices should maintain the current statute known as 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3).
That law has been challenged in multiple federal courts in recent years, but the Supreme Court agreed to take up Hemani, a case that led a lower court to rule that the federal prohibition on gun ownership by people who use cannabis violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Several other briefs were also submitted last month for the case, which was granted cert in October. Firearm control groups including Everytown for Gun Safety, Second Amendment Law Scholars, Brady
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