Mother Jones: Kavanaugh Could Deal a Big Blow to Gun Control

Mother Jones ^ | 07/10/18 | Kara Voght

[Simon Green]

President Donald Trump’s selection of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court has been met with concern in a variety of progressive advocacy circles, but one group’s condemnation has been particularly swift and forceful: proponents of gun control. Organizations like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, and Giffords—the group founded by former Arizona congresswoman and gun violence survivor Gabby Giffords—all issued statements denouncing Trump’s pick. Protesters representing their cause counted themselves among the hundreds who assembled at the Supreme Court last night to object to the president’s choice.

The outcry might seem surprising, since the Supreme Court has barely heard any gun-related cases since 2008, when it upheld law-abiding citizens’ right to gun ownership in District of Columbia v. Heller while stipulating that such ownership should be regulated. But according to Brady co-president Avery Gardiner, a former lawyer, that may have had more to do with the moderate makeup of the court than an absence of legal challenges to gun control, and another Trump appointee may make the court more willing to take on such cases. The cases heading to the nation’s highest court are constitutional challenges to the “common sense” measures gun control activists have implored lawmakers to pass since the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

[RedMonqey]

It’s evident that EVERYBODY but Trump himself didn’t take him seriously(including me!)They(me) thought Hillary would have a cake walk.

HooooBoy were we WRONG!(Yipeeeee!)

The only thing that can stop this nomination is the GOP itself.

I pray we get RHB and/or “the wise latina’s seat, too. If both happens I’d think I died and went to Conservative heaven!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I’m very optimistic about November 6 because HALF of the Democrat Senate seats are on the table, and even if you assume that the mean is 50-50, reversion to the mean would imply a Republican pickup of seven seats.

If the Republicans do not pick up Senate seats, they’ll be in trouble in ’20 and ’22, when the Republicans will have more seats to defend than the Democrats will.

But if the Republicans do pick up several Senate seats, and if Democrat-nominated SCOTUS seats do up . . .

I hope that the SCOTUS nominee confirmation issue helps the Republican senatorial candidates this fall.

[archy]

Could you like this guy more?

I like Hardiman a LOT more. But K is a god start.