I. Mr. Young pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a felony offense . He then attacked the statute of conviction as unconstitutional on appeal . Applying the plain -error stan dard of review, th e Fifth Circuit declared the error alleged to be insufficiently clear. To support the point, it noted a circuit split on the question of § 922( g)(1)'s constitutionality. That split turns on whether § 922(g)(1) is sufficiently similar to Founding Era surety laws and other laws aimed at disarming groups perceived to be dangerous. Those same arguments are now before the Court in United States v. Rahimi , No. 22 -915.

The question presented is:

Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain -error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922( g)(1).

Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1)