NRA: Obama poised to ‘stack the court’
byJoel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer
President Obama, if reelected. will “stack the court” with a majority that could circumscribe Second Amendment gun rights to a dramatic degree, the National Rifles Association (NRA) warned today.
“If those three left, he could stack the court with a 6-3 majority rule for the next 30 years,” said Chris Cox, executive director at the NRA’s Insitute for Legislative Action. “If that happens, the Second Amendment will be reduced to a government-granted privilege.”
Cox was referring to the possibility that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (age 79), Justice Stephen Breyer (age 73), and Justice Anthony Kennedy (age 75). Kennedy is often the swing vote in 5-4 decisions.
Ginsburg, as Cox noted today and in the past, has called for “a future, wiser” Supreme Court to overturn recent Second Amendment decisions such as the case that overturned the gun ban in Washington D.C.
“Nugent slammed the Obama administration and singled out four members of the Supreme Court as not supporting the Constitution during his remarks at the National Rifle Association’s annual conference in St. Louis. Nugent, best known for his hit Cat Scratch Fever, is an NRA board member.
“If you want more of those kinds of evil anti-American people in the Supreme Court, then don’t get involved and let Obama take office again,” Nugent said Saturday. “Because I’ll tell you this right now: If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”