Supreme Court Upholds US Gun Ban in Domestic Violence Cases
- Justices vote 8-1 with Clarence Thomas as the only dissenter
- Opinion backing US law eases court’s expansion of gun rights
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The US Supreme Court upheld a federal law that bars firearm possession by people under domestic-violence restraining orders in a ruling that tempers the court’s expansion of constitutional gun rights.
Voting 8-1, the justices said the Constitution’s Second Amendment isn’t so broad that it protects the gun rights of those found to be dangerous. Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter.