By John Kruzel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration in a case out of Texas to defend a federal law that bars users of illegal drugs from owning guns – one of the statutes under which former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was charged in 2023.

The justices took up the Justice Department’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling involving a dual American-Pakistani citizen man named Ali Hemani, who was charged with violating this law, that found the gun restriction largely ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”

The Supreme Court is expected to hear the case and issue a ruling by the end of June.

The case stems from an illegal gun possession charge that federal prosecut

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