The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up whether a federal crime that bans gun possession for drug users is constitutional.

At the Trump administration’s urging, the justices will wade into this issue this term, making it the latest front in the battle over the Second Amendment. A decision is expected by next summer.

“This is the archetypal case for this Court’s review,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in court filings.

Federal law prohibits anyone “who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” from possessing a firearm. Violations carry up to 10 years in prison.

The charge is prosecuted regularly. U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Higginson, an appointee of former President Obama, recently noted in an opinion that judges are adjudicating the cases “daily acro

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