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Supreme Court to review law barring domestic abusers from having guns

Updated July 1, 2023 at 10:34 a.m. EDT|Published June 30, 2023 at 4:58 p.m. EDT
The nine justices of the Supreme Court. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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The Supreme Court next term will consider whether individuals subject to domestic-violence restraining orders can be prohibited from having firearms, setting up the first major test of gun restrictions since the court’s conservative majority expanded Second Amendment rights last year.

The court on Friday announced plans to take up the gun case and several others, filling in its calendar for the term that begins in October. The orders came shortly after the justices issued their final opinions of the current term, striking down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan and siding with a Colorado web designer who does not want to make wedding websites for same-sex couples.