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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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To: DBrow

the end justifies is as ancient as the Romans. In the end, the means got to the guys who had no rules. Rules that don’t apply to others, also do not apply to you. Our side want5s to be liked too much. The other side applies Caligula’s rule “who cares if they hate us, as long as they fear us.”. Time to take that rule and apply it back. We have no moral obligation to follow rules of civility when the barbarians have intention of following them either.


81 posted on 06/30/2010 6:26:14 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: skeeter

No, the FAT Latina LIED!


82 posted on 06/30/2010 7:02:42 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: skeeter

No, the FAT Latina LIED!


83 posted on 06/30/2010 7:02:56 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: OldDeckHand

One of those she easily fooled hasn’t been elected yet. And that’s the already compromising Pat Toomey.


84 posted on 06/30/2010 7:16:20 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Nachum; OldDeckHand; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori
Here is my decision:

None of you members of the VRWC, an obvious racist hate group, has the legal standing to challenge a Wise Latina. In her culture, it is considered OK to Lie for the Greater Good.*

That ain't eggzackly Latino Culture were talking here, it's New York City KKK (Kagan Kommie Kulcha)

Kagan, whose brother is an avowed Communist, is from a very RED family, indeed. She will lie her ass off (just as Sotomayor did with the 2d Amendment issue) to get on the SCOTUS for life as a "sleeper," whose dedicated task is to weaken America.

Obama is having the same effect on the US that Clement Attlee had on Britain in 1946, destroying our basis. It didn't take Attlee long, either.

85 posted on 06/30/2010 7:27:04 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Time for Regime Change in America)
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To: OldDeckHand

Since all LIEberals LIE, why should we be surprised?


86 posted on 06/30/2010 7:30:15 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: neverdem
Sotomayor is water under the bridge. I doubt her vote in McDonald surprised many.

Sotomayor is now a documented liar.

87 posted on 06/30/2010 7:49:47 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: neverdem

Bump!


88 posted on 06/30/2010 8:10:07 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Mr Rogers

Orrin Hatch simply asked Kagan if she wrote a particular memo about partial birth abortion in her Clinton years, she fudged, stalled and eventually said “It is in my handwriting” - never ever admitting to writing it tho’. Rush played it today, I was amazed how she acted.

Right then I knew she must definitely be voted down, but it won’t happen unless there are surprises in the wings.


89 posted on 06/30/2010 9:02:57 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD
Here's the clip.
90 posted on 06/30/2010 9:06:36 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: OldDeckHand
Article III, Section I:

" ... The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior ..."

Next time the GOP gets a hold of both houses of Congress - they should impeach Sotomayor to make an example that they will not put up with any shenanigans like saying Heller is settled law, then she argues [once she is on the Court] that Heller should be overturned ...

91 posted on 06/30/2010 9:15:44 PM PDT by Lmo56
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To: OldDeckHand

Didn’t take like for “wise old latina” to follow down the path of other famous Latin Americans such as Fidel, Che, the Sandinista thugocracy, Allende, Chavez and Morales.


92 posted on 07/01/2010 12:12:19 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (I Don't Want Hussein to Kick Ass. I WANT HIM TO GET OFF HIS ASS!!!!)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
Well, knock me over with a feather -- Sotomayer is sh!t. What a surprise.

The dwarf-dyke Kagan won't be any better. Which is the plan, I suppose.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

93 posted on 07/01/2010 5:30:07 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: OldDeckHand
The Sotomayor experience shows why it's crucial for senators to demand serious answers about where a nominee stands on the Second Amendment.

That would make sense if anyone really cared. The purpose of the hearings has become merely an opportunity for our windbag politicians to bloviate and then vote in favor of the nominee. The wise latina achieved her confirmation through fraud. So what? Nobody will do anything about it. Even worse, had she stood up and said what she really believes, she would have been confirmed any way. What's the difference?

94 posted on 07/01/2010 5:50:59 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: OldDeckHand

Lies come easily to those who subscribe to situational ethics.


95 posted on 07/01/2010 6:30:48 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: OldDeckHand
You can make a very good case that the 1st amendment didn't restrict the states because it says “Congress shall make no law”, but the 2nd does, in that it states “the right of the people...shall not be infringed”, which is not limited only to Congress. By ratifying it as written, the states became bound by it also. Otherwise there is no reason they couldn't have used the same wording in both.
96 posted on 07/01/2010 8:16:53 AM PDT by Hugin (Remember the first rule of gunfighting...have a gun..-- Col. Jeff Cooper)
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To: Hugin
"You can make a very good case that the 1st amendment didn't restrict the states because it says “Congress shall make no law”"

Right, you could make that case, and people did for years, and in fact the Supreme Court held as such. But, the point that I was making to the person I was responding to, is that virtually all of the relevant Amendments in the the BoR weren't incorporated at one time or another. If you continue reading the thread, you'll see where I and a few others point out some specific Amendments and the corresponding case law.

97 posted on 07/01/2010 8:29:22 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand
Kagan was an old friend of Obama's in Chicago. He's just paying an old friend back, but also, one who will gladly endorse his every move to wreck this country: Cubacare, Comprehensive Amnesty, Cap and Trade, etc.

Not sure what an ugly little Jewish girl sees in a Black man such as Obama other than his smooth talking bullsh*t where she can fantasize about him wanting her.

I bet when they hung-out together, he put his hand on her back, looked her in the eye and bullhsh*tted the night away. All the while she was thinking, "I know a lot of unattractive white women who've gotten a black guy." "It's worth a shot."

Alas, it didn't happen, so now he gets to make up for his phony advances and she can continue to fantasize. His way of saying, "Sorry it didn't work out baby, how's this for a consolation prize?"

Let's hope for his sake he doesn't get caught with his pants around his ankles and a Lewinski look-alike playing tubeflute as did Clinton. Hell hath no fury like a justice scorned- especially one who tried so hard to win his affections, but had to settle for first place in a NY County Fair butter churning contest.

98 posted on 07/01/2010 9:32:47 PM PDT by budwiesest (It's that girl from Alaska, again.)
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To: skeeter

Yes, she lied to Congress UNDER OATH. Isn’t that perjury? Or is it perjury only when a conservative does it?


99 posted on 07/02/2010 6:37:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
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