Democrat Senators Issue Veiled Threat to Supreme Court over Gun Rulings Volume 90%
By Joe Saunders
Published August 13, 2019 at 8:42am
This isn’t exactly a friendly warning.
A “friend of the court” brief filed with the Supreme Court by Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and four Democratic colleagues contains a not-so-veiled threat that if the justices don’t vote the Democrats’ way on a pending Second Amendment case, Democrats just might decide to remake the court itself. It’s not litigation; it’s intimidation.
Joining Whitehouse in the brief were Sens. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. All of them are well to the left of most Americans and one — Gillibrand — is actually running to be the president who could appoint Supreme Court justices.
The case they are discussing in particular involves gun owners challenging New York City restrictions on their right to carry firearms.
TRENDING: Biden Calls Trump a ‘Bully,’ but Trump Hits Back with Perfect Response But the senators’ language goes far beyond the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York. In language ranging from pedantic to hectoring to outright threatening, the Democrats argue that the high court has been virtually hijacked by conservatives.
“With bare partisan majorities, the court has influence sensitive areas like voting rights, partisan gerrymandering, dark money, union power, regulation of pollution, corporate liability and access to federal court, particularly regarding civil rights and discrimination in the workplace. Every single time, the corporate and Republican political interests prevailed,” the brief states.
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Poster Comment:
Jefferson was right. We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep the government honest.