Hosts Tim Carey and Kari Still analayze challenges to the federal prohibition on firearm possession for users of illicit drugs. Beth McGinty, PhD, MS, Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics and Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medicine shares insights about how substance usage affects the risk of firearm possesion. Matthew Osborne, PhD, MA, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri, Kansas City discusses the history of alcohol and drug regulation in the United States.

###

0:00 - Introduction and case background

6:00 - How courts are treating the current law and public debate

8:35 - What the research says about the risk of firearms and substance usage

24:00 - Conflicting challenges: United States v Daniels and United States v Beasley

38:00 - The historic of regulating alcohol and controlled substances

54:25 - What happens now?

Hosts Kelly Roskam, Tim Carey, and Kari Still react to and analyze the Supreme Court's ruling in U.S. v Rahimi. The Court upheld firearm prohibitions for those subject to domestic violence protective orders. This is the first time the Court has used its recent Bruen test in an opinion, but there are still many lingering questions about how lower courts should use the test when making decisions.

###

0:00 - Introduction

1:45 - U.S. v Rahimi decision recap

4:35 - Dr. Mary Anne Franks, legal scholar and professor of law at George Washington University Law School joins the show to analyze the Court's decision, discuss what it means for the Bruen test and other Second Amendment decisions.

32:30 - The Bruen test and historical analogies for disarming dangerous individuals

38:05 - Natalie Nanasi, associate professor at SMU, Dedman School of Law and founding director of the Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women discusses the impact of the Court's decision on domestic violence victims and survivors.

50:45 – Implications of the Court's decision on other gun violence prevention laws and challenges

Hosts Kelly Roskam, JD, and Tim Carey, JD discuss U.S. v Rahimi. The upcoming decision from the Supreme Court could decide if those subject to a domestic violence protective order can possess firearms, as well as clarify how courts are supposed to handle Second Amendment cases in a Post-Bruen era.

###

0:00 - Introduction

1:03 - Domestic violence protective orders background

4:35 - April Zeoli, PhD, MPH policy core director of the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Michigan discusses intimate partner violence and evidence on the efficacy of domestic violence protective orders in preventing both domestic and mass violence

18:33 Overview of previous challenges to protective order firearm prohibitions

23:40 - Case history of U.S. v Rahimi at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals

42:30 – Supreme Court oral arguments in U.S. v Rahimi

58:13 – Outcome predictions