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🗓️ 21 June 2024
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm William Brangam. I'm Naveaz and Jeff Bennett are away. On the news hour tonight, the Supreme Court uphold |
0:10.8 | uphold law that prohibits domestic violence abusers from owning guns. |
0:16.7 | We take a closer look at the political fundraising after the Biden and Trump campaigns |
0:21.5 | received multi-million dollar donations from billionaires. |
0:25.8 | And following Prime Minister Modi securing a third term in office, Muslims in India continue |
0:31.6 | to face discrimination and hate. |
0:34.0 | We felt terrible. We wondered why they were demolishing our mosque in school. |
0:38.0 | It didn't do any harm to anyone. They told me, this is not your school. This is the government's land now. Welcome to the News Hour. The Supreme Court today handed down a major victory for gun control advocates, ruling that domestic violence abusers |
1:06.1 | can be barred from owning guns. In an 8 to 1 decision, the court rejected a Second Amendment |
1:11.8 | challenge to the federal law that makes it illegal for people |
1:15.6 | with domestic violence restraining orders to possess firearms. |
1:19.6 | Joining us now is our Supreme Court analyst Marsha coil Marsha so nice to see you as |
1:24.8 | always so this again major second amendment decision 8 to 1 but a lot of |
1:30.9 | writing today seven justices felt they needed to weigh in on this writing on this. |
1:36.2 | Remind us what this case was all about and what the court ruled. |
1:40.9 | Okay. Well, Mr. Rahimi was the person who challenged the federal law, the federal ban, and he had a domestic |
1:51.2 | violence restraining order against him. |
1:53.0 | He was a pretty bad actor, William, to be honest with you. |
1:56.0 | I mean, he physically assaulted, his girlfriend, threatened her and his child that they had. |
2:01.0 | He shot off his gun on different occasions despite their restraining |
2:06.0 | order and in different places as well. His challenge went all the way up to the |
2:11.4 | US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. |
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