The high court will hear arguments in the case brought by Zackey Rahimi, who went on a shooting spree after being placed under a domestic violence protective order. Rahimi argues that his constitutional right to bear arms was violated.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday for a case involving a Texas man challenging the government’s ability to disarm people who are subject to a domestic violence restraining order.
“We’ve seen lower federal courts try to interpret and apply new method, reaching wildly diverging outcomes understandings,” said Jake Charles, a law professor at Pepperdine University who writes about and teaches about the Second Amendment. But Rahimi kept his guns. He used one gun to threaten another woman and, months later in the winter of 2020, he was involved in five shootings in the span of several weeks. He once shot at a constable’s car; on another time, he fired a weapon into the air outside a Whataburger after his friend’s credit card was declined.
“You would think anybody looking at these facts would think public safety is at risk,” said Jeana Lungwitz, the director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law. “It just seems public safety and common sense would say this is somebody who shouldn’t have a firearm.” In the eight months that followed the 5th Circuit’s ruling, TCFV has received anecdotal reports from survivors and lawyers saying some state court judges have not upheld the state’s own prohibition on gun possession for those under protection orders, said Krista Del Gallo, TCFV’s legislative director.
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