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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a case involving a man convicted of a felony over back child support.<\/p>\n

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Edward Cockerham pled guilty to being in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 USC 922(g)(1) following his conviction in Mississippi, but appealed the conviction. United States Circuit Judge James Ho of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a Trump appointee, said in the opinion that the lifetime ban for a non-violent crime violated the Second Amendment. (RELATED: Is ATF\u2019s \u2018Sporting Purposes\u2019 Test A Dead Infringement Walking?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government analogizes failure to pay child support to theft. But during the Founding era, thieves were treated differently from debtors,\u201d Ho wrote. \u201cThieves were subject to permanent disarmament. Debtors were not. Debtors could be imprisoned, and thus temporarily disarmed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they were released from debtors\u2019 prison upon payment of their debt. And the Government acknowledges that Cockerham was no longer delinquent of any failure to pay child support when he was found in possession of a firearm,\u201d Ho continued. \u201cCockerham\u2019s conviction under \u00a7922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a Monday interview that the DOJ will often defend laws, even if they don\u2019t agree with what they are defending.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand people have policy differences with DOJ\u2019s enforcement of federal laws, but, in my opinion, and I\u2019ve said this to many gun groups, the appropriate place to launch those, policy discussions is in Congress, not with us,\u201d Dhillon said. \u201cWe have, I mean, not me, but other people in this building regularly respond to all kinds of litigation on behalf of the United States where I don\u2019t necessarily agree with what we\u2019re defending.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Second Amendment Foundation Director of Legal Research and Education Konstadinos Moros observed that the Fifth Circuit\u2019s decision appeared to be in line with the Supreme Court\u2019s 2024 ruling in United States v. Rahimi.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSAF was happy to hear the Supreme Court declined to review this case, as the Fifth Circuit reached the correct ruling: dangerousness must be the standard for disarmament, and many nonviolent felons are not dangerous,\u201d Moros told the DCNF. \u201cThat includes Mr. Cockerham, whose crime was failing to pay child support.\u201d (RELATED: New Second Amendment Appeal Request Lands On Supreme Court\u2019s Doorstep)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, the Supreme Court refusing to review a particular case does not necessarily mean the Court agrees with the lower court\u2019s decision, so we should not treat this as definitive,\u201d Moros continued. \u201cStill, it is a possible sign that the high court is sticking closely to what it decided in\u00a0Rahimi \u2014<\/em>\u00a0actual dangerousness is required to deny a citizen their Second Amendment rights. The upcoming ruling in\u00a0US v. Hemani\u00a0<\/em>should shed more light on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Hemani case, the United States is appealing a Fifth Circuit ruling that overturned a conviction under 18 USC 922(g)(3), which prohibits users or addicts of controlled substances from possessing firearms. The Supreme Court heard arguments in March, and the decision is currently pending.<\/p>\n

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