Marijuana and Guns at the Supreme Court / Cornyn, Paxton and a Texas Runoff
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries. |
| 0:25.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The Supreme Court |
| 0:32.6 | debates whether the Second Amendment permits the government to disarm users of illegal drugs, including marijuana, |
| 0:39.1 | cocaine, and much more, in another test of the Justice's new constitutional approach to gun rights. |
| 0:45.6 | Meantime, James Tala Rico wins a clean victory for the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas, |
| 0:51.2 | as Republicans head to a runoff between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton. |
| 0:56.6 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues |
| 1:01.4 | on the journal's opinion pages, columnist Matt Contenetti, who writes for the free expression |
| 1:06.7 | newsletter and editorial board member Colin Levy. The Supreme Court's 22 ruling in a landmark |
| 1:12.9 | case called Bruin held that today's gun restrictions can only withstand Second Amendment scrutiny |
| 1:18.9 | if they are consistent with America's history and tradition of firearm regulation. |
| 1:24.4 | Since then, judges and lawyers have hit the books to figure out how the founding generation dealt with firearms. |
| 1:30.4 | And on Monday, one of those disputes was back at the Supreme Court. |
| 1:34.2 | This is U.S. v. Hamani. |
| 1:36.4 | Federal law says that it is illegal for anyone who is an unlawful user of any controlled substance to possess a firearm. Ali Hamani was charged with that crime |
| 1:47.2 | in 2022 after police found marijuana, cocaine, and gun at his house. He admitted to using marijuana |
| 1:53.9 | a few times a week, and that was the basis for the criminal case against him. So does the United States |
| 1:59.9 | have a history and tradition |
| 2:01.5 | of disarming illegal drug users? |
| 2:04.6 | Let's listen to Justice Samuel Lito first, |
| 2:07.2 | tangling with Sarah Harris of the US Solicitor General's Office. |
| 2:11.4 | Most of the most commonly used illegal drugs |
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