SCOTUS Rules on Illegal Drug Users Owning Firearms
6/19/20261 hr 4 min
Sarah Isgur and David French react to two new Supreme Court opinions on gun ownership while possessing illegal drugs and appeal waivers.
The Agenda:
—Drugs and the Second Amendment
—Rewriting Bruen
—Bad plea deals
—Overcharging crimes
—The Gorsuch-Kavanaugh dynamic
—The DOJ and the Hyde Amendment
Show notes:
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First 90 secondsSarah Isgur· Host0:01
You ready?
David French· Host0:01
I was born ready.
Sarah Isgur· Host0:03
[upbeat music] Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgur. That's David French. Don't forget, if you want to join us for the live term review with Advisory Opinions, we're doing that July 8th in DC at the Bloomberg Center with Johns Hopkins and the ACLU. You can sign up at SCOTUSblog. While you're there, by the way, sign up for the Advisory Opinions newsletter and get video transcript and our own producer, Anna's, summary and hot takes on everything [chuckles] that we said. I mean, we're letting her get away with quite a lot of stuff in this newsletter, David. I don't, I don't know. But, uh, fun times. So come join us for July 8th term review in person, and sign up for the newsletter if you want to see David wear the exact same thing every day. It's a quarter zip, y'all. It's always a quarter zip.
David French· Host1:06
[laughs] There is nothing wrong with a quarter zip.
Sarah Isgur· Host1:10
[laughs] Uh, and on today's podcast, we will go through the Supreme Court opinions that we got Thursday morning, including Hamani, the gun case for drug users, the Hunter case. I know, everyone's getting confused 'cause you're thinking Hunter Biden with the drug case, but nope, nope. The Hunter case is