The conservative US Supreme Court has an opportunity on Tuesday to clarify its latest case law on the right to bear arms, which has caused confusion in American courts -- though it remains to be seen whether it will seize it.
The US Supreme Court will be asked to weigh the Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms against a law designed to protect victims of domestic abuse
In the 2022 decision, carried by the six conservative justices against their three liberal colleagues, Justice Clarence Thomas explained that the court would henceforth authorize only"reasonable" exceptions to the Second Amendment, notably in"sensitive places." In the Texas case the ruling concerned, police recovered a handgun and a rifle during a search of the home of a suspect implicated in five shootings in two months, and subject to a restraining order on behalf of a former girlfriend, which prohibited him from possessing weapons.The Justice Department, in its arguments in favor of the domestic violence restraining order restrictions, cites a long tradition of the government restricting gun ownership to"law-abiding citizens.
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