SAF’s Alan Gottlieb et.al. sues Washington's Attorney General over civil rights violations

bearingarms.com ^ | 5/4/23 | https://bearingarms.com/john-petrolino/2023/05/04/safs-alan-gottlieb-et-al-sues-washingtons-attorney

[CFW]

Being a civil rights activist, advocate, and leader/founder of pro-freedom groups brings with it a certain amount of baggage. Trying to promote liberty in general – never mind the Second Amendment – on a national level, while being based in Washington state, can’t be easy. Our good friend Alan Gottlieb over at the Second Amendment Foundation knows this all too well, and has recently been left with no other recourse but to sue over alleged harassment. A recent announcement on the lawsuit against Washington’s Attorney General talks about two plus years worth of discriminatory practices, costing Gottlieb et.al. a pile of money and time.

"The Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and their CEO Alan Gottlieb, have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and members of his staff, alleging that Ferguson has used the power of his office to chill the activities of SAF, which are aimed at protecting and expanding Second Amendment rights.

The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case is known as Second Amendment Foundation v. Ferguson."

[CFW]

There is also an "Exclusive" article at the WSJ on this case.

That article, if you have a subscription, is here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gun-groups-financial-dealings-with-founder-spark-state-investigation-4ca2fe49?mod=hp_featst_pos3

[CFW]

An excerpt from the WSJ article:

“In the lawsuit against Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Mr. Gottlieb said he is being targeted for his pro-gun advocacy. The lawsuit says the attorney general has “carried out an expansive, highly intrusive probe into the private affairs” of Mr. Gottlieb, his family, his nonprofits and the two Gottlieb entities that provide services to the nonprofits.

“It’s my job as Attorney General to enforce Washington laws prohibiting self-dealing and the illegal misappropriation of charitable donations,” Mr. Ferguson said in a statement. “We don’t have a comment on this confidential investigation that Mr. Gottlieb chose to make public.” He said he expects to prevail in the case.

Investigators have made demands for decades-old documents and have put gag orders on the groups’ accountants, the suit said. Mr. Gottlieb, in an interview, said he’d been deposed earlier this year and “it didn’t go very well for them.”

[Gnome1949]

When this country divides, and it will, the patriot side should not even conduct any trade with these communist tyrants. Don’t give them an inch of consideration and keep them out of our half of the country.