NEW: Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY Votes to Weaken Law Used to Prosecute and Convict Hunter Biden

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Hunter BidenThe U.S. Supreme Court today weakened a law that was used to prosecute Joe Biden’s ne’er-do-well son, Hunter Biden.In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Court ruled that the prosecution of a man named Ali Danial Hemani violated his Second Amendment rights.Hemani is a dual citizen of the United States and Pakistan who lives in Texas. He was accused of breaking a law that bars an unlawful drug user from possessing firearms.This is a felony that can result in a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.Hemani was a user of marijuana when the FBI found a handgun at his Texas home in 2022. He admitted to smoking it every other day.It’s important to note that while today’s ruling narrows the scope of the law, it DOES NOT strike it down in its entirety.From CBS News:The ruling from the Supreme Court is narrow, since the justices did not strike down the law at the center of the case in its entirety. Instead, the high court said the government cannot automatically disarm a person who uses marijuana a few times a week. Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion for the court.The government, he wrote, “asks us to conclude that anyone who regularly uses marijuana is categorically violent and dangerous without any further showing. All based on little more than its current say-so, one at odds with its own regulatory actions. And affording the government that kind of ‘broad power to designate any group as dangerous and thereby disqualify its members from having a gun’ would risk allowing it to ‘quickly swallow’ the Second Amendment.”The Supreme Court’s decision does not address efforts to ban drug addicts or those presently intoxicated from having firearms, Gorsuch wrote. He also said it does not impact other federal firearms restrictions, including those that disarm convicted felons, or prosecutions that involve proof that a defendant’s drug use renders him dangerous.Multiple outlets note that this is the same law under which Hunter was prosecuted and convicted for purchasing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine.His dad later pardoned him in December 2024.The ruling also marks a loss for the Trump Administration, since the DOJ claimed in filings with the Court that the Second Amendment allows Congress to restrict gun possession by so-called habitual drug users.Radical gun-grabbing groups such as the Brady Center for Preventing Gun Violence and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence joined the Trump Administration.But on the other hand, the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) signed on as co-counsel representing Hemani. He was also supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA).Politics does occasionally make strange bedfellows.The post NEW: Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY Votes to Weaken Law Used to Prosecute and Convict Hunter Biden appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.