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SCOTUS Rules on Illegal Drug Users Owning Firearms

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur and David French react to two new Supreme Court opinions on gun ownership while possessing illegal drugs and appeal waivers. The Agenda: —Drugs and the Second Amendment —Rewriting Bruen —Bad plea deals —Overcharging crimes —The Gorsuch-Kavanaugh dynamic —The DOJ and the Hyde Amendment Show notes: —United States v. Hemani —Hunter v. United States Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I was born ready.

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Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgird. That's David French. Don't forget if you want to join us for the live term review with advisory opinions. We're doing that July 8th in D.C. at the Bloomberg Center with Johns Hopkins and the ACLU. You can sign up at Skodas blog while you're there, by the way, sign up for the

0:39.1

advisory opinions newsletter and get video transcript. And our own producer, Anna's, summary

0:45.7

and hot takes on everything that we said. I mean, we're letting your get away with quite a lot of

0:50.8

stuff in this newsletter, David. I don't know, but fun times.

1:00.7

So come join us for July 8th term review in person and sign up for the newsletter if you want to see David wear the exact same thing every day. It's a quarter zip, y'all. It's always a

1:06.3

quarter zip. There is nothing wrong with a quarter zip.

1:17.1

And on today's podcast, we will go through the Supreme Court opinions that we got Thursday morning,

1:25.4

including Hamani, the gun case for drug users, the Hunter case. I know, everyone's getting confused because you're thinking Hunter Biden with the drug case,

1:27.7

but nope, nope. The Hunter case is about whether you can waive your appeal in part of your plea

1:33.4

bargain of your sentence in a criminal case. What if that sentence turns out to be like

1:39.1

unconstitutional, bonkers town and something? You didn't know what the sentence would be when

1:43.6

you agreed to the plea deal and you waived your right to appeal? Oh no. The Supreme Court weighs in on

1:49.5

that with some fun times between justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh once again. They're on the same side,

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