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Neil Gorsuch: “The habitual drunkard laws on which the government relies here differ dramatically from [the federal] unlawful user…”

On the recordJune 18, 2026
The habitual drunkard laws on which the government relies here differ dramatically from [the federal] unlawful user provision on every single metric the government invites us to consider.
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Neil Gorsuch
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reason.com
Jun 18, 2026

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Majority opinion in United States v. Hemani.

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