Guns, ‘Trump Too Small’ Cases Top High Court’s November Calendar

Former President Donald Trump, social media, and the reach of the Second Amendment will take center stage at the US Supreme Court in November, according to an argument calendar released Wednesday.

The seven cases to be argued continues the court’s relatively light load, as the number of cases considered by the justices steadily falls. The justices will hear six cases when they kick off their term in October.

Just two years after the biggest expansion of gun rights in more than a decade, the justices Nov. 7 will consider whether the government can ban guns from individuals subject to domestic-violence restraining orders in US v. Rahimi.

Also headlining the November sitting are a pair of social media cases that test whether public officials can block constituents from their social media profiles. Those cases, O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier and Lindke v. Freed, are set to be argued Oct. 31.

The issue originally came to the high court after Trump blocked individuals from his then-Twitter account, but disappeared following his 2020 election loss.

The former president also features prominently in a trademark case, Vidal v. Elster, to be argued Nov. 1. It’s the latest test of when federal officials can deny trademark protection based on moral or offensive grounds, this time relating to a “Trump Too Small” mark disparaging Trump.