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Sotomayor Takes Axe to Second Amendment
-- Won't answer whether she believes there's a right to self-defense
-- Won't answer whether she believes there's a right to self-defense
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The U.S. Senate must vote NO on Judge Sonia Sotomayor!
Demonstrating that she was programmed in her responses, Sotomayor defended one of her earlier legal opinions by citing "footnote 23" of Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion in the DC v. Heller case last year.
But, when pressed by questioner Orrin Hatch yesterday, Sotomayor could not recite the contents of that footnote or the holdings of the cases which it cited. As it turns out, the footnote on which Sotomayor claims to rely, cited -- without approval -- two Nineteenth Century cases which rejected the notion that the Second Amendment was 'incorporated' to apply to the states.
But those were also the days when the Supreme Court held that the rights protected in the First Amendment did not apply to the states. Apparently, Sotomayor wants to base her anti-gun philosophy on antiquated decisions from an era when the U.S. Supreme Court was spitting out racist decisions.
Her answers got even worse today when Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma asked her, point blank, "Is there a constitutional right to self-defense?" Sotomayor said that was an "abstract question" and that she couldn't think of a Supreme Court case that addressed that issue.
Coburn said he didn't want a legal treatise on what Supreme Court holdings have said, rather, he wanted her own personal opinion. Sotomayor would not answer the question, although when pressed, she equated self-defense with vigilantism!
Folks, do you see how important it is to stop this nomination? GOA mailed its members postcards opposing Sotomayor not too long ago.
Please make sure you have mailed those in. We need a multi-pronged offensive right now where our Senators are receiving snail mail, email and phone calls.
And, we need ALL PRO-GUN ORGANIZATIONS to take a stance AGAINST this nominee.
Organizational spokesmen can talk a good game and say they have serious "concerns" about Sotomayor. That's all well and good. But unless those organizations (big and small) rate each Senator's vote on Sotomayor -- when she's clearly anti-gun -- then those supposed "concerns" are just meaningless.
Senators have to hear from ALL the pro-gun organizations -- big and small -- that they are going to rate this vote during the 2010 election. Otherwise, those organizations are just Paper Tigers.
We can't let this anti-gun judge infiltrate U.S. Supreme Court! She is dangerous on so many levels -- but, especially, on Second Amendment rights.
GOA considers her nomination to be of the most important gun votes in the HISTORY of the US Senate. We can't think of any other nominee in recent history who has taken such a horrid stand on the basic right of self-defense.
She says that she will follow the precedent in the DC v. Heller (2008) case. But even if she does, that only means that she will vote to apply the Second Amendment in Washington, DC. She has already ruled this year in Maloney v. Cuomo that the amendment doesn't apply to where you live.
-- Tim Macy, Vice-Chairman of Gun Owners of America
ACTION: We need to "pull out the stops" to defeat this nominee. Please contact your two U.S. Senators today and urge them to VOTE NO on Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator:
When asked by Senator Tom Coburn if there was a right to self-defense, Sotomayor said that was an "abstract question." Sotomayor would not answer directly, although when pressed, she equated self-defense with vigilantism!
How can the Senate confirm a judge to the U.S. Supreme Court who does not believe in the rights that are EXPLICITLY stated in the Bill of Rights?
I also want you to know that Gun Owners of America will heavily score any vote related to the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor -- whether it's a vote on cloture or final passage -- for its rating in 2010.
Moreover, GOA is going to publish its rating so that millions of Americans can see how their Senators voted on this most important vote.
GOA has told me that it considers the Sotomayor nomination to be one of the most significant gun votes in the HISTORY of the US Senate, as there has been no other nominee in recent history who has taken such a horrid stand on the basic right of self-defense.
Sincerely,
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They Cant Do That...
From: dixiebound1861@yahoo.com
After talking with Greg, a friend of mine, about a trip he took to D.C. in
order to speak with the COCC he commented on something that I have heard
numerous times in the past. He brought up that several people in the meeting
repeated the phrase “they can’t do that, it is unconstitutional”. “They” being
the government of course and regardless of what the “thing” was the people
insisted that it would be unconstitutional for the government to proceed with
that activity.
How many times have we said, “they cant do that, it is unconstitutional”?
How many times have we heard that phrase uttered in conversation, read that
phrase in a newspaper or on a talk show? The Founding Fathers in their infinite
wisdom established limitations to the federal government via the Constitution;
those limits were set in place in an attempt to keep the feds in check. The hope
was that the states would stay sovereign and the people would remain free from a
tyrannical and overbearing federal government. Sadly, that has not been the case
since Lincoln first trampled the Constitution in order to save his precious
union. Lincoln opened Pandoras Box and set the stage for President after
President to trample the Constitution, all for the good of the nation of course.
Through out history we see examples of such acts by the federal government,
whether statements from George W. Bush “Its just a goddamn piece of paper” in
reference to the Constitution or Obama’s statements that the Constitution is
“fundamentally flawed”, that we needed to “break free from the essential
constraints” of the Constitution. The Republican sweetheart Ronald Reagan broke
the 5th Amendment by allowing police to confiscate property in order to pay for
the so-called war on drugs. “nor shall private property be taken for public use,
without just compensation.”
Sadly we have seen far to many events of the government failing to abide by
the constraints of the Constitution, far to many times have we seen an out of
control central government run amok over the rights of the state and that of the
people, all in the name of the union. The days that the governments power being
shackled by the constraints of the Constitution are long over, we are now in a
time that the Constitution is seen as little more than an aging and out of date
document best left to the history books. The government sees that it gives the
people their rights or removes them as needed, the government knows best for
each person, each state and will not let something as simplistic as the
Constitution stand in their way. It is no longer “For the People, by the People”
but rather for the government, by the government and anyone that dares stand in
its way will pay a harsh price.
So the next time you start to mutter “they cant do that, it is
unconstitutional” just remember that every President since Lincoln has ignored
the Constitution and the limits it places on government, next time you hear that
phrase stated remind them that Congress sees the Constitution as an out of date
document best left in the halls of a museum. Remember that very few government
officials, law enforcement, politicians see the Constitution as valid in today’s
time. Just remember that most if not all see the few remaining rights you enjoy
as being gifts given to you not by the Creator but rather by the government and
can and will be taken away as that government sees fit.
For A Free And Independent South
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"The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now."
-- South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905)
http://americanrevival.org/
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