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KOPEL: Sotomayor targets guns now
Washington Times ^ | 06/29/2010 | Dave Kopel

Posted on 06/29/2010 5:43:51 PM PDT by OldDeckHand

Perhaps the most startling aspect of the Supreme Court opinions in McDonald v. Chicago was the dissenters' assault on District of Columbia v. Heller. Not only did Justice Stephen G. Breyer vote against extending the Second Amendment to state and local governments, he also argued forcefully and at length for overturning Heller and, therefore, for turning the Second Amendment into a practical nullity. Ominously, Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the Breyer dissent - contradicting what she told the U.S. Senate and the American people last summer.

Regarding the key issue in McDonald - whether the 14th Amendment makes the Second Amendment enforceable against state and local governments - Justice Sotomayor resolutely refused to tell the senators how she might vote. So in voting against incorporating the Second Amendment, Justice Sotomayor was not inconsistent with what she had told the Senate. But regarding Heller, her actions as a justice broke her promises from last summer.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; 2taketherepublicaway; 4thecommongood; banglist; elenakagan; guns; hearings; kagan; nra; rtkba; scotus; supremecourt; testimony; ussc
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Kopel lays out a pretty stinging indictment of Sotomayer. It's pretty clear she lied during her confirmation hearings, although that probably doesn't come to a surprise to anyone.
1 posted on 06/29/2010 5:43:53 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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...contradicting what she told the U.S. Senate and the American people last summer.

Say it ain't so - the wise latina LIED?

2 posted on 06/29/2010 5:45:32 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: OldDeckHand; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...
The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

3 posted on 06/29/2010 5:46:34 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: OldDeckHand

Perhaps the liberal idiots that are playing lovey-dovey with “empty suit” Kagan will notice this and get a clue. But I doubt it. The mental disease of liberalism is pretty much chronic and incurable.


4 posted on 06/29/2010 5:48:28 PM PDT by upchuck (Don't let freedom slip away. After America, there is no place to go ~ Kitty Werthmann - Google her.)
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To: OldDeckHand

It seems they are going to keep on until they create a lot of undocumented guns.


5 posted on 06/29/2010 5:50:47 PM PDT by lonestar (Barry is furious the big spill wasn't caused by EXXON...would have nationalized it by now.)
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To: OldDeckHand
Not only did Justice Stephen G. Breyer vote against extending the Second Amendment to state and local governments, he also argued forcefully and at length for overturning Heller and, therefore, for turning the Second Amendment into a practical nullity. Ominously, Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the Breyer dissent - contradicting what she told the U.S. Senate and the American people last summer.

You mean an obama flunkie lied? Who would have ever guessed? < /sarcasm>

6 posted on 06/29/2010 5:51:46 PM PDT by abortionisalwaysmurder (Before you kill your baby, ask yourself, What did the baby do?)
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To: skeeter

are the nominees under oath?


7 posted on 06/29/2010 5:53:03 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: skeeter

are the nominees under oath?


8 posted on 06/29/2010 5:53:12 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: OldDeckHand
What is clear is that Liberals must be removed from any ability to affect our freedoms. The leftist must be removed from the Executive, Justice and Education (including at the state & local level) it is becoming more clear everyday that a major electoral purge needs to occur with subsequent clean out of all government departments.
9 posted on 06/29/2010 5:54:58 PM PDT by WHBates
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There is no reason to hold hearings. No democrat will ever tell the truth under oath, and no Democrat will ever follow up on one who lies.

Kagan would swear on her Momma’s grave that she kisses a 44 Magnum revolver every night, if in return she can get on the Court and make up law for the next 40 years.

ANY Republican who doesn’t oppose her by every mean possible is unacceptable. Sadly, Kagan will get on the court and will try to ban guns for as long as she lives. And Christians. And babies. And freedom.


10 posted on 06/29/2010 5:56:57 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (When the ass brays, don't reply...)
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Wait until the GOP girlymen in the Senate send Barry’s latest pig up to the U.S. Pig Farm. The whole Bill of Rights is going to be toast.


11 posted on 06/29/2010 5:57:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! Had enough "history" yet?)
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Why does it matter that she lied. Sen Alexander of Tn knew she had 2nd Admendment issues. He endorsed and voted for her.RINO


12 posted on 06/29/2010 5:57:56 PM PDT by Sir Beowolf (We The People!)
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I believe they are.

Does the GOP have the nerve to challange them when they lie? I'm pretty sure they don't.

13 posted on 06/29/2010 6:02:33 PM PDT by skeeter
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Now more than ever it should be apparent to everyone that liberals have very fluid, ever-morphing ethics. O’Reilly was just commenting on how the Rolling Stone reporter, Hastings, supposedly promised McChrystal that all comments would be “off the record” and then published every last word.

Liberals find it perfectly acceptable to flat out lie if they think the end justifies that mean. They have that in common with a certain religion that has a teaching that makes it A-OK to lie to infidels if it serves Allah (I won’t mention them for fear of Oh-Fending anyone, don’t want that, no sir-—you’ll just have to guess).


14 posted on 06/29/2010 6:03:26 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving.)
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"are the nominees under oath?"

Yes, but unfortunately perjury (18 USC § 1001, Making a false statement, in this case) isn't a "forward-looking" offense. IOW, you're affirming under oath that the answers you're giving then are correct and truthful. She always has the "I changed my mind" defense.

Someone would need to find some evidence that she was being deceitful at the time of her testimony, and that's not likely.

Congress, OTOH, could still impeach her ass, although no one would dare, unfortunately.

15 posted on 06/29/2010 6:04:35 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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“contradicting what she told the U.S. Senate and the American people last summer. “

Was it Marx who said the end justifies the means? Or was it Engels? Lenin? Stalin? Khrushchev? Alinsky? Clinton? Dohrn? Obama?


16 posted on 06/29/2010 6:06:46 PM PDT by DBrow
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-- Sen Alexander of Tn knew she had 2nd Admendment issues. --

IIRC, he's not a staunch second amendment fellow, himself. Talks a good game, and talks, and talks and talks.

17 posted on 06/29/2010 6:11:59 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: OldDeckHand

They can do whatever ,But how are the Rats going to enforce it??


18 posted on 06/29/2010 6:13:03 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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What I find most surprising about this is the number of people who seem to be surprised...
She’s a libtard. She will push the progressive agenda to the limits of her notion of the law. And, if she can’t see the logic, she’ll make it up.

It’s time to take back the country.


19 posted on 06/29/2010 6:23:05 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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He! It will take guns to do that. You know that, right?


20 posted on 06/29/2010 6:23:41 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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