Rand Paul usually does, but I don’t know the particulars of his objection.
Kavanaugh does seem to favor the Deep State when it comes down to it.
Rand Paul almost always on the side of liberty and the citizens.
...Rand Paul almost always on the side of liberty and the citizens...
But, not this time. We must stand united to get the majority. There is no perfect pick. But, he has proved himself well enough for this seat.
Did you hear the man speak tonight. I’ll take that any day of the week
I dont have a problem with Paul. In a sane world, the two major parties would be Republicans and Libertarians.
Looks like FR is now deep state too. Its a shame.
In follow-on litigation to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Second Amendment in D.C. v. Heller, a D.C. Circuit panel majority, consisting of two Republican appointees, upheld the District of Columbia’s ban on possession of most semi-automatic rifles and its registration requirement for all guns in D.C. Judge Kavanaugh dissented (in Heller v. D.C. (2011)). An excerpt from his dissent:
In Heller, the Supreme Court held that handguns – the vast majority of which today are semi-automatic – are constitutionally protected because they have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens. There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semi-automatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles. Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses. Moreover, semiautomatic handguns are used in connection with violent crimes far more than semi-automatic rifles are. It follows from Heller’s protection of semi-automatic handguns that semi-automatic rifles are also constitutionally protected and that D.C.’s ban on them is unconstitutional. (By contrast, fully automatic weapons, also known as machine guns, have traditionally been banned and may continue to be banned after Heller.)