Funny.
Justice Gorsuch asks what it meant to be "Habitual Drunkard" in old days of America: "Eight shots of whiskey a day only made you an occasional drunkard…to be a habitual drunkard you had to do double that…James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day…" pic.twitter.com/shu4RXb3k0
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LA Times:
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to limit the reach of the 2nd Amendment and deny gun rights to “habitual” users of drugs, including marijuana.
But most of the justices sounded skeptical. They questioned whether marijuana users are so dangerous they should not have firearms.
They noted too that President Trump signed a recent executive order to reclassify marijuana as a lesser controlled substance.
“Why is this a test case?” asked Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.
Federal laws on “controlled substances” and the 2nd Amendment created a conflict between gun rights and illegal drugs, but Gorsuch said marijuana users are not seen as a particular danger to the public.
“This is an odd case to have chosen” to resolve this legal dispute, he said.
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