- Term
- 2023-2024
United States v. Rahimi
For decades, a federal law has barred people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from owning firearms. But a lower court struck down that restriction — despite the acute risk such a ruling posed to the lives and safety of survivors of intimate partner violence. Here, the Supreme Court considered whether or not to uphold that lower court ruling. This case came just two years after the Court’s disastrous ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, where it struck down a 100-year-old gun safety law and opened up the floodgates to increased gun violence.
On June 21, 2024, in an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the constitutionality of the law barring those subject to domestic violence restraining orders from firearm ownership. Justice Thomas dissented.
