On September 14, the Fifth Circuit granted rehearing en banc in United States v. Cordova, a Second Amendment challenge to the lifetime felon gun ban, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). That follows the July 20 en banc rehearing grant in United States v. Squire, a challenge to the same prohibition under the Commerce Clause. These cases test whether Congress had the power in the first place, and even if so, is it prohibited from doing so?

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