Gun rights while facing charges
TJ Aguilar v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- TJ Aguilar filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review his Fifth Circuit case, including whether Congress may criminalize receiving a firearm within one state because the gun crossed state lines earlier and whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) fits the Second Amendment.
- What's at stake
- Aguilar seeks Supreme Court review of whether the federal firearm restriction can reach the receipt at issue in his case; the Court has not agreed to review that question.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He also asks the Court to wait for a decision in another case or send his case back for reconsideration based on a later appeals-court decision.
Alongside the firearm questions, Aguilar asks the Court to wait for a decision in Beaird v. United States, reconsider how much weight judges give the Sentencing Guidelines' commentary, or send his case back for another look based on a later appeals-court decision.
Question presented
1. Petitioner asks that the Court should hold this petition pending a decision in Beaird v. United States, No. 25-5343, and alternatively asks whether Stinson v. United States still correctly states the rule for deference that courts must give the commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines? 2. Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand for reconsideration because of an intervening circuit decision that may invalidate precedent on which the panel opinion below relies. 3. May Congress criminalize intrastate firearm receipt based solely on the fact that the firearm crossed state lines at some indefinite point before the defendant received it? 4. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) comports with the Second Amendment.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the petition. No oral argument or decision window is set before that choice.
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Sources
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