The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, a case that could expand gun rights and gut protections for domestic-violence victims.
will determine whether that decision invalidates a law banning people subject to domestic-violence restraining orders from owning firearms.
A judge placed Rahimi under a domestic-violence restraining order and banned him from possessing guns in February 2020.
The argument failed to convince either the federal judge overseeing the case or the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Rahimi pled guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 73 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He is currently in jail in Fort Worth and awaiting trial on charges connected to the other alleged assaults.
However, victim advocates stress that the law is one of the few tools survivors have to stop their domestic abusers from further harming them. In her brief, Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar reminded the Court that in: “All too often, the only difference between a battered woman and a dead woman is the presence of a gun.”After hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision on the case next summer.
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