06/18/2026
Excerpt: Justice Samuel Alito, in an opinion joined by Justice Elena Kagan, agreed with the result that the majority reached, if not its reasoning. In his view, the federal government had “failed to show that a ma*****na user like” Hemani “is incapacitated in a way analogous to the habitual drunkards that the Government’s analogues regulated.”
(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Updated on 1:15 p.m.The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in United States v. Hemani that the federal government cannot prosecute a Texas man on charges that he violated a federal law barring users of illegal drugs from having a gun. In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch, t...
