The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a significant ruling reaffirming limits on firearm possession for individuals deemed dangerous by the courts, while also taking up a separate high-stakes immigration battle involving Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for migrants from Haiti and Syria.
In a closely watched decision released this week, the justices rejected a constitutional challenge to a federal law that prohibits individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. The Court ruled that when a person has already been found by a court to present a credible threat of physical harm, temporarily disarming that individual is consistent with the Second Amendment.
The vote came down 8–1, with Justice Clarence Thomas standing as the lone dissenter.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, grounded the ruling in historical tradition. He stated, “Since the founding, our Nation’s firearm laws have included provisions preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms.”
Roberts further concluded that “As applied to the facts of this case, Section 922(g)(8) fits comfortably within this tradition.”
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