TheDude
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WHITE HOUSE CONTINUES ATTACK ON SENSIBLE GUN LAWS:
NOMINATES "MACHINE GUN SAMMY" TO THE SUPREME COURT
A Supreme Court nominee who would strike down the federal ban on machine guns?!
I guess we shouldn't have been surprised from this White House. The same White House that just last week gave special legal protection to the gun industry, that refuses to bar terrorists from buying guns, and that broke a campaign promise and put Uzis and AK-47s back on America's city streets.
And in the midst of all of their other problems, they nominate "Machine Gun Sammy" to the highest bench in the land!
In 1996, when the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the authority of Congress to ban fully automatic machine guns, Judge Samuel Alito dissented. Yes, he voted to loosen the restrictions on machine guns.
Judge Alito's ludicrous machine gun decision is bad enough. But it also indicates that if he were on the Supreme Court, he would attempt to deprive Congress of the power to pass other laws to protect Americans from gun violence.
Judge Alito's decision reeks of right wing judicial activism — a willingness to concoct bizarre readings of the Constitution in order to strike down reasonable laws with which he disagrees and to neuter the ability of the people's representatives to enact sensible gun legislation.
We face this kind of radical judicial activism because reasonableness has taken a flying leap in Washington. Why? Because the White House has once again caved in to special interests, like the NRA, and other radical wings of the party — and continues to lead the country down a path that is less secure and less civil.
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Making machine gun's more accessible will help the 'war on terror? Hmmmm. I seriously hope he didn't vote to loosen restrictions on machine guns.
NOMINATES "MACHINE GUN SAMMY" TO THE SUPREME COURT
A Supreme Court nominee who would strike down the federal ban on machine guns?!
I guess we shouldn't have been surprised from this White House. The same White House that just last week gave special legal protection to the gun industry, that refuses to bar terrorists from buying guns, and that broke a campaign promise and put Uzis and AK-47s back on America's city streets.
And in the midst of all of their other problems, they nominate "Machine Gun Sammy" to the highest bench in the land!
In 1996, when the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the authority of Congress to ban fully automatic machine guns, Judge Samuel Alito dissented. Yes, he voted to loosen the restrictions on machine guns.
Judge Alito's ludicrous machine gun decision is bad enough. But it also indicates that if he were on the Supreme Court, he would attempt to deprive Congress of the power to pass other laws to protect Americans from gun violence.
Judge Alito's decision reeks of right wing judicial activism — a willingness to concoct bizarre readings of the Constitution in order to strike down reasonable laws with which he disagrees and to neuter the ability of the people's representatives to enact sensible gun legislation.
We face this kind of radical judicial activism because reasonableness has taken a flying leap in Washington. Why? Because the White House has once again caved in to special interests, like the NRA, and other radical wings of the party — and continues to lead the country down a path that is less secure and less civil.
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Making machine gun's more accessible will help the 'war on terror? Hmmmm. I seriously hope he didn't vote to loosen restrictions on machine guns.