Gun Ban in Domestic-Violence Cases Draws Supreme Court Review

The US Supreme Court will take up a major new Second Amendment case, agreeing to decide the fate of a federal law that bars gun possession by people who are subject to a domestic-violence restraining order.

The justices said they will hear the Biden administration’s appeal of a ruling that declared the 1994 law unconstitutional. The administration said the federal appeals court decision “threatens grave harms for victims of domestic violence.”

The case, which the Supreme Court will consider in the nine-month term that starts in October, will test the reach of the court’s year-old ruling establishing a constitutional right ...