Democrat President Will Pack The Courts Against the 2A For A Generation

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This feature appears in the March ‘16 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20160223/standing-guard-hillary-packing-the-courts-for-a-generation


“Only Eight Years of President Hillary Can Take the Supreme Court Away From Conservatives”

That headline on the Daily Beast website succinctly lays out the devastating threat to our liberty that defines the coming November elections. It takes no imagination to see what will happen to the Second Amendment if Hillary or her shadow rival, socialist Bernie Sanders, can “pack” the federal courts.

You can bet that a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court will make sure to carry out her threat to “take back the Second Amendment” and that the protections of the First Amendment on free assembly and free speech—as exercised by NRA members—will be erased.

That entire progressive agenda is in danger if they “don’t get a lock on the White House and pack the bench for a generation.”

“If Hillary is elected and serves two terms,” the Daily Beast predicts, “the odds are strong that the majority … will be, by the time she left office in 2025, changed to a liberal one.”

Look no further than a recent disastrous decision by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Illinois, which upheld a Highland Park, Ill., ordinance criminalizing possession of semi-automatic rifles that have been deemed “assault weapons” and magazines holding more than 10 rounds owned by law-abiding city residents.

The circuit decision, split two to one, concluded that the confiscatory ban provided a “substantial benefit” to “increase the public’s sense of safety.”

That is insane. It surely didn’t increase the safety of the homeowners disarmed under this law. Those residents have every reason to fear—not just armed criminal predators whose possession of firearms is already a crime, but also a government that would disarm them for nothing more than the perception of making other people feel safe.

For certain, this gun-ban law gives one group a very real sense of safety—armed and violent criminal predators.

The lower court and the appeals court rested their decisions on the false claim that semi-automatic rifles are not in common usage and thus are not protected by the Second Amendment.

That bizarre decision remains in effect for the states in that Circuit.

When the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal in that case, in a very rare and unusual protest, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Antonin Scalia, filed public opposition to the Court’s denial.

The justices wrote: “If a broad ban on firearms can be upheld based on conjecture that the public might feel safer (while being no safer at all), then the Second Amendment guarantees nothing.”

Thomas wrote that such banned rifles as the AR-15 are indeed in common usage by citizens and are covered by the Second Amendment. “An overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes. … Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such weapons.”

Even more remarkable about this rare public dissent on the court’s denial of cert, Scalia and Thomas in June 2015 also publicly protested an earlier high court denial of a Second Amendment-based appeal—this one of a San Francisco ordinance that required handguns that are kept in the home to be readily inaccessible—the very issue that was at the heart of the Heller decision finding a Washington, D.C., ban unconstitutional.

This gets us back to a Hillary-packed Supreme Court. It indeed would hear an appeal of a Second Amendment case like City of Highland Park, and it would most certainly agree with the lower court that a confiscatory ban would fit nicely with what the new majority would find as the “common-sense” erosion of American liberty.

A Hillary court would uphold all of the constitutional abuses begun in President Barack Obama’s regime. Imagine what would happen in a “packed” court to a challenge to Obama’s latest ongoing abuse of executive power, like criminalizing private firearm sales by requiring individuals to obtain a dealer’s license for transfer of even one gun.

With the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts in play, these elections are indeed the tipping point for freedom—not just in our lifetime, but in the history of our remarkable republic.
 
Has there ever been a presidential election that was not the most important in our lifetime when the NRA came knocking for money?
 
the point is valid though, our democracy and individual rights as we know them are in for a seismic change if a republican does not win in November. If the GOP had not been such rank amature pussies in the past, maybe we would not be standing at this precipice today, but we are.
 
This is an extremely important election for the Second Amendment not to mention the future of how things are done in this country. Obummer will not be the last Democrat to abuse Executive Orders.
 
This is an extremely important election for the Second Amendment not to mention the future of how things are done in this country. Obummer will not be the last Democrat to abuse Executive Orders.

He has set a precedence. I am sure that a Repub POTUS (Trump) will abuse them as well.

Trump just starting supporting 2A yesterday, so don't be surprised if he goes back to being anti tomorrow!
 
The judges are not the final arbiters. They don't have the constitutional authority to change it.
 
the point is valid though, our democracy and individual rights as we know them are in for a seismic change if a republican does not win in November. If the GOP had not been such rank amature pussies in the past, maybe we would not be standing at this precipice today, but we are.

He has set a precedence. I am sure that a Repub POTUS (Trump) will abuse them as well.

Trump just starting supporting 2A yesterday, so don't be surprised if he goes back to being anti tomorrow!

The judges are not the final arbiters. They don't have the constitutional authority to change it.

I wouldn't trust any Repubs to save our Constitution either! The seismic change will happen no matter who is elected. And the USSC indeed does change the "meaning" of the Constitution thru their rulings.
 
Has there ever been a presidential election that was not the most important in our lifetime when the NRA came knocking for money?

Because we keep losing election after election, every subsequent election does indeed become more important.

Furthermore, with 2 liberals and 1 swing vote approaching or past the age of 80, not only is it imperative that Hillary not be elected , but instead, a conservative be in office, some who will appoint a Scalia type, this election truly is the most important presidential election in over 100 years.
 
It's a good time to join the NRA or upgrade your membership before the dues increase on March 1st.

There are links to the discounted memberships in this thread: http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/301634-I-Upgraded-to-NRA-Life-Member

You can pay for a Life Membership on a quarterly plan, so if the USA is no longer a country in 5 years you'll have enjoyed being an NRA Life Member without even paying for all of it!
 
You mean like this clown?





It's ridiculous how people can't see this.

The Elite are waging Empire on the Right, leaving a Country riddled with irredeemable debt, while the Left sweeps the newly minted paupers into a Communist prison.


My teeth are nearly filed to the gum when I see yard signs for this collective shill. People are so so pacified, unaware, propagandized and brainwashed.

It's very sickening to witness.
 
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For anyone that doesn't think that this upcoming election isn't important, we were just one liberal justice away from not having a Heller or McDonald decision in our favor. In addition, if Hillary is elected, that means more liberal judges will be stacked in the lower courts that could impact this country for a generation or more. And yes, SCOTUS can change the meaning of the constitution through its decisions.
 
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Absolutely! Neither side can be trusted. The only way the COTUS can legally be changed is through the amendment process but yes they do like to make their own version of the COTUS from time to time.
Jefferson said the judges are not the final arbiters. The people of the Union are the final arbiters.
http://famguardian.org/subjects/politics/thomasjefferson/jeff1030.htm

I wouldn't trust any Repubs to save our Constitution either! The seismic change will happen no matter who is elected. And the USSC indeed does change the "meaning" of the Constitution thru their rulings.
 
I'm a life member of the NRA but with some of the people on their board we may end up losing because the majority of the voters in this country who are more likely to lean anti 2A will change drastically if some of the policies they support on the board are implemented.

http://www.ammoland.com/2016/02/no-...n-despite-controversy-and-need/#axzz412zd7916


It's a good time to join the NRA or upgrade your membership before the dues increase on March 1st.

There are links to the discounted memberships in this thread: http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/301634-I-Upgraded-to-NRA-Life-Member

You can pay for a Life Membership on a quarterly plan, so if the USA is no longer a country in 5 years you'll have enjoyed being an NRA Life Member without even paying for all of it!
 
And this is yet another reason why Gun Owners are their own worst enemy

No organization is "perfect" However the NRA has indeed saved gun rights many times over the years, and that is a fact. NOTHING is more perverse than gun owners bad mouthing the NRA. We are only a judge or two away from losing the 2A and again that's another fact. If it happens I don't know who I'll be more incensed with, the Liberals or the so called gun Owners who have spit in the face of the NRA every step of the way to the mess we are in today.




Has there ever been a presidential election that was not the most important in our lifetime when the NRA came knocking for money?
 
You haven't been paying attention. Yes they have helped in some areas but in others they have not.They've supported and ranked highly politicians that have stabbed us in the back. They support infringements that could and can be used to entrap innocent people etc.

No organization is "perfect" However the NRA has indeed saved gun rights many times over the years, and that is a fact. NOTHING is more perverse than gun owners bad mouthing the NRA. We are only a judge or two away from losing the 2A and again that's another fact. If it happens I don't know who I'll be more incensed with, the Liberals or the so called gun Owners who have spit in the face of the NRA every step of the way to the mess we are in today.
 
Oh, trust me, I have been paying attention for over 40 years in the NRA. The anti-NRA kool aid some "gun owners" swill down by the gallon is enough to make most sick.

Gun rights are indeed on the precipitous and those who have bashed or insulted the NRA along the way have the blood of law abiding gun owners on their hands.


You haven't been paying attention. Yes they have helped in some areas but in others they have not.They've supported and ranked highly politicians that have stabbed us in the back. They support infringements that could and can be used to entrap innocent people etc.
 
And I would hope some of you anti-NRA Kool Aid swillers fully realize that the odds of losing gun rights is higher than the odds that we will keep them.
 
Let's not forget that Obama has appointed a couple hundred anti-RKBA liberals to federal judgeships, including appellate courts. Which is why most lower courts are tending towards ignoring the Heller and McDonald Supreme Court decisions and creating anti-2A rulings. Those cases will have to appeal to the Supreme Court and a liberal majority will reverse Heller and McDonald and rule the 2A out of existence.

You may also remember that during the Bush years, the democrats in the Senate mostly obstructed Bush's appointments to lower federal courts.
 
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