Guns rights and domestic violence protections collide at US Supreme Court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Vigorous defenses of the law have been made in briefs by some prosecutors like Sorrells as well as former state chief justices including two appointed by Republican Texas governors.
43% : Sorrells, for instance, is a conservative Republican who filed a brief supporting the law.
43% : " The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by President Joe Biden's administration of a ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the law violates the Second Amendment in light of a 2022 ruling by the justices that set a stringent new test to determine the legality of gun restrictions.
41% : Some - but not all - groups of public defenders urged the justices to invalidate the law, arguing that restraining orders that disarm their clients are often too easily obtained and procedurally unfair for defendants.
40% : A Texas man named Zackey Rahimi, who according to court records was the subject of such an order after assaulting his girlfriend in Tarrant County and pleaded guilty to violating the law, has challenged it as a Second Amendment violation.
37% : Biden's administration has said the law should survive because of the long tradition in the United States of taking guns from people deemed dangerous.

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