The U.S. Supreme Court appeared deeply divided during Monday’s hearing about a sentencing enhancement under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act that brings a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years behind bars.

The court heard roughly an hour and a half of oral arguments in the consolidated cases Brown v. United States and Jackson v. United States, which both involve a dispute over when courts should dole out longer prison sentences for a federal felon-in-possession of a firearm conviction.

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