Kagan's Snowe job on gun rights - Obama nominee is a threat to the Second Amendment

Washington Times ^ | July 28, 2010 | Masthead Editorial

[neverdem]

The more it looks like the Senate will confirm Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, the more gun owners should worry. Yesterday, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican to stand behind President Obama's nominee on the phony basis that Ms. Kagan supports gun rights.

Mrs. Snowe explained in a press release that, "as a longtime, ardent supporter of Second Amendment rights, it was critical that [Solicitor] General Kagan stated during her testimony that the precedents set by the Supreme Court in the Heller and McDonald cases - which upheld a personal right to possess a firearm - are 'deeply rooted in this nation's history and traditions' and are 'settled law'; that she has 'absolutely no reason to think that the court's analysis was incorrect in any way'; and, that she will apply these cases as law 'going forward.' "

We've been down this road before. Less than a year ago, SenateJudiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, made similar assurances regarding then-Supreme Court hopeful Sonia Sotomayor, saying, "I do not see how any fair observer could regard her testimony as hostile to the Second Amendment personal right to bear arms, a right she has embraced and recognizes."

Once the "wise Latina" donned the robes of her lifetime office, any pretense of upholding the individual's right to bear arms was jettisoned. Ms. Sotomayor signed onto the gun rights dissent of Justice Stephen G. Breyer last month, which stated, "I can find nothing in the Second Amendment's text, history or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as 'fundamental' insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes."

There's reason to think Ms. Kagan will follow the same path. Her past writings suggest her confirmation hearings were orchestrated to fool...

[IbJensen]

Grahamnesty's Pin-Up Girl

[precisionshootist]

“IS THERE A CONSTITUTIONAL METHOD OF REMOVING SUPREME COURT JUDGES WHO FAIL TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OR CREATE LAW FROM THE BENCH???”

There needs to be!

SCOTUS, is the biggest flaw in our system

[gundog]

"I can find nothing in the Second Amendment's text, history or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as 'fundamental' insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes."

Hmmmmm...I can find nothing in the Second Amendment's text that says you get to say dick about it.

[ExSoldier]

I'm pretty sure that is horror author, Stephen King. The SC-FI channel's new show which I find awesome (Haven) is based on a Stephen King story and set in Maine.

[patriot08]

Just heard on the news five Republicans voted for her.
Who were they? Anybody know?