Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States

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1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, is constitutional under the Second Amendment.

2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress’s authority under the Commerce Clause as applied to intrastate possession of a firearm. 1 This first question in this petition, regarding whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly holds § 922(g)(1) constitutional without engaging in an as-applied analysis and categorically barring felons from possessing firearms, is also raised in other petitions, including Jones v. United States, No. 25-5820 (distributed for conference of Nov. 14, 2025). The question of whether § 922(g)(1) is subject to an as-applied challenge is also similar to—but distinct from—other petitions that turn on the availability and scope of an as-applied challenge. See, e.g., Howard v. United States, No. 25-5220 (distributed for conference of November 21,

3. (“Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony conviction is drug trafficking?”); Vincent v. Bondi, No. 24-1155 (distributed for conference of November 21, 2025) (“Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Melynda Vincent, who has one seventeen-year-old nonviolent felony conviction for trying to pass a bad check.”).