Gun rights after drug convictions
Phillips v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Naquon Phillips asks the Supreme Court to review whether the federal law barring firearm possession after convictions for crimes punishable by more than a year in prison violates the Second Amendment as applied to him, given his old, nonviolent drug-distribution convictions.
- What's at stake
- Whether Phillips can challenge the federal firearm ban based on his prior convictions remains unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The petition concerns how the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision applies to the federal ban on firearm possession by people with qualifying convictions.
Question presented
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of “a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” from possessing a firearm, violates the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner, based solely on stale, nonviolent prior drug distribution convictions.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the case. No oral argument or decision window is set before the Court agrees to review it.
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