Posted on 07/24/2014 2:29:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In October of 2013, a Pennsylvania resident named Shaneen Allen drove into New Jersey’s Atlantic County and was pulled over by police for an “unsafe lane change.” When the detaining officer arrived at her car window, Allen informed him that she was carrying a concealed firearm, and presented her Pennsylvania carry license as proof of eligibility.
Unbeknownst to her at the time, however, was that New Jersey is among the 20 states that do not recognize Pennsylvania’s permit. In consequence, she was arrested. If convicted of the charges that the state has elected to bring, she will be locked in prison for up to a decade.
A single mother of two young children, Allen works more than one job and as a result leaves her home at odd times of the day. After two robberies made her aware of her vulnerability, she became convinced that she should be prepared to defend herself and her family, and resolved to do something about it. Which is to say that Allen bought her firearm, and obtained her concealed-carry permit, not to commit crimes but to prevent them. This has failed to move the prosecutor, Jim McClain, an overzealous man who has routinely declined to use the considerable latitude with which he has been entrusted by the state.
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The governor can always issue a pardon.
Who in their right mind WOULDN’T go into New Jersey armed especially the cities?
Government is now the criminal.....make no mistake about it.
It’s cases like this that make me not so upset that some NJ gang members have put out hits on NJ police officers.
NJ, in my book.
It should be noted that prior to the 14th Amendment it was universally agreed that the Bill of Rights, including 2A, applied only to acts of the federal government, not the states.
Prior to 14A and for some quite considerable time thereafter, states routinely passed and enforced laws violating 1A, 2A and others.
The Supremes eventually decided 14A "incorporated" some of the Bill of Rights to where states had to obey them. The extent to which this is the case has constantly increased, but still not all aspects of the BoR are considered "incorporated."
BTW, it is almost certain that "incorporation" was not intended by those who ratified 14A, just as they did not intend to establish birthright citizenship.
Unless I’m misreading this, a NJ governor, unlike the President, cannot pardon before conviction.
http://www.pardon411.com/wiki/New_Jersey_Pardon_Information
That was my take, too. After all, how can you be pardoned before trial if you’re presumed innocent?
Democrats, being the party of the KKK, Jim Crow, and slavery, can’t stand the idea of armed black citizens.
The US President can, and does, do so. Ford pardoned Nixon, for example.
The President’s power of pardon is one of the few in the Constitution with no check or balance. Obama could, if he chose, empty the federal prisons tomorrow, or let just the black inmates go. The only recourse anybody would have is impeachment, and that wouldn’t put the inmates back in prison.
Read a book where a massive terrorism campaign in America caused Congress to pass a law declaring all politically-motivated violence to be a federal crime, the law subsequently upheld by the Supremes.
The President then started pardoning, before trial, those who murdered his political opponents and critics: judges, congressmen, journalists, academics, etc. The President thus gained power of life and death without appeal over his enemies, and perfectly constitutionally, too.
In this case the President was a rightie, or more accurately a lunatic posing as a rightie. But the procedure could be applied by a leftist equally well.
The presently unrestrained constitutional power of pardon is potentially a real problem.
There would be no such recourse--pardons would be made on the last days of his term. Holder's an expert here--he prepared the pardons for Clinton's pen, including the one for Marc Rich.
If you really want him to drop the case like a bad habit, a more effective approach would be to launch a public campaign in support of the prosecutor -- thanking him for coming down so harshly on this uppity Negro woman from Pennsylvania who should spend 15 years in prison just for daring to cross the Delaware River. We don't need no steenkin' black women from Pennsylvania crossing that moat!
Sounds like the State Persecutor is conducting a War on Women; specifically a single Mom. Bastard!
Clever!!
...although the optics might look bad if the media doesn’t let us explain the sarcasm angle.
“Chris Christie is an anti-Second Amendment radical.”
He is the most conservative governor we’ve had in a while.
If this lady broke the law, she should be treated as if she was a white guy breaking the same law (however that might work out).
We don’t have affirmative action for crime.
They're too bust with the 400 pound street thug who fought the cops and lost.
That’s too BUSY, not bust. Typo.
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