Excessive Fines Clause – weighing the gravity of the offense
The question presented is whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underlying offense purely in the abstract or should consider the gravity of the specific defendant's wrongdoing.
Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15s.
Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. Certiorari was also granted on this question in Grant v. Higgins, USSC case no. 25-566.
AEDPA prohibition on successive petitions
Whether a claim relies on a "new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously unavailable" when the habeas petitioner could have asserted a claim based on the rule in a prior federal habeas petition but would not have succeeded.
Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a 12-person jury.
Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a serious felony?