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Posted on 08/05/2010 6:16:09 PM PDT by neverdem
Statement on Elena Kagan’s Confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court
Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association & Chris W. Cox, Executive Director, National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action
Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to the highest Court in the land. To NRA members and gun owners nationwide, Ms. Kagan presents a clear and present danger to the right to keep and bear arms. Her political record reveals that she does not believe the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right and, in her recent testimony, she refused to acknowledge respect for the God-given right of self-defense. That is why, more than a month ago, the NRA announced its strong opposition to Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Court. In that announcement, it was made very clear that this vote matters and will be considered in the NRA's candidate evaluations.
The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental, individual right that applies to all law-abiding Americans. Nonetheless, during the hearings Ms. Kagan refused to state her support for the Second Amendment, saying only that the matter was "settled law." When asked about the Heller decision, Justice Sonia Sotomayor used the phrase "settled law" repeatedly during her confirmation hearings to win support. Justice Sotomayor then worked to destroy the Second Amendment in the McDonald case. We have no doubt that Ms. Kagan shares the same view of the Second Amendment.
Since she has no judicial record, we have only her political record to examine. And that political record demonstrates a clear hostility to our right to keep and bear arms. As a clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall, Ms. Kagan said she was "not sympathetic" to a challenge to Washington, D.C.’s ban on firearms. As a domestic policy advisor in the Clinton White House, a colleague described her as "immersed" in Clinton’s aggressive assaults on the Second Amendment. As U.S. Solicitor General, Ms. Kagan chose not to file a brief last year in the landmark McDonald case, thus taking the position that incorporating the Second Amendment and applying it to the states was of no interest to the Obama Administration or the federal government.
The expansive support that self-defense laws, the decisions in the historic Heller and McDonald cases, and the Second Amendment enjoy from the American public is a clear indication that Elena Kagan’s radical views are out of the mainstream. Any nominee, that far out-of-step with the American people, should not be on the Supreme Court.
The nomination and confirmation of two justices with an inherent bias against the Second Amendment is a direct assault on our treasured freedom. The fate of our Second Amendment hangs perilously - by one vote. The need for eternal vigilance on the part of every American has never been greater.
In the big picture, this nincompoop just replaces another and the net balance of the court does not change - although as a younger fool, she can hang in there for a long time before the opportunity to replace her with a constitutional judge occurs.
The GOP leadership, in the person of Mitch McConnell FAILED miserably.
He FAILED because he was unable to exert the kind of moral and leadership pressure on the five Judases to keep them from voting for this witch. He FAILED because he did not at least ATTEMPT to filibuster her appointment.
If this is the best McConnell and his leadership can accomplish in the Senate, Obama might just as well appoint Osama Bin Ladden to SCOTUS, as McConnell and the other GOP leaders would be just as ineffectual in opposing HIM.
The GOP has become a useless political appurtenance. More than, it has evolved into an obstacle for countering the Marxists who run the Democrat Party.
Its much easier to take over an existing party structure than create a new political party. The “Tea Party People” MUST become more proactive in primaries and do everything humanly possible to flush the Mitch McConnells, Olympia Snowes and Lindsey Grahams from the GOP party. They have GOT to start at the ground level in town and County political races and then proceed up to the state and Congressional levels. And they have got to do this FAST. Before the Democrats turn America into a totalitarian Marxist state.
If they can't succeed in this, the Marxists will have won in America, not because their thinking represents the views of most Americans, but because those who present themselves as alternatives are too self-absorbed, incompetent, gutless and stupid, to harness the popular opinions of most Americans to stop these menace.
I agree.
That's what Lindsey Graham from my home state of SC did. It looks like finally he's being taken down from the inside. The county GOPs are recognizing this political whore for what he is.
Oops, forgot! Lindsey has no soul to sell. So not real sure what he sold!
That was my first thought too after reading this. I understand they haven't officially endorsed him yet, but if they do, I'll consider the endorsement of any candidate by the NRA as about as worthless as a bucket of warm spit.
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