The Justice Department is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to submit briefs in a case justices recently agreed to hear that concerns the constitutionality of a federal ban on gun ownership by people who use marijuana and other drugs.
In a motion from the Trump administration that was sent to the court on Thursday, DOJ said there was mutual agreement between its attorneys and those representing the respondent in the case that the current deadline for briefs and reply briefs should be revised because of the “press of other cases.”
Currently, the Justice Department is supposed to file its first brief with the court by December 4, but it’s requesting that be extended to December 12. That would push the respondent’s deadline to submit a brief to January 20.
“If those extensions are granted, the reply brief would be due on February 19, 2026. Both parties consent to this briefing schedule,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, an appointee of President Donald Trump, said in the motion.
The Trump administration has routinely argued that the policy restricting gun ownership by people who use cannabis, even in compliance with state law, “targets a category of persons who pose
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