Kane won't defend Pennsylvania gun law!

Pocono Record ^ | 12/5/14 | Marc Levy

[Renegade]

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is leaving it to the governor's office to defend a lawsuit challenging a law backed by the National Rifle Association that was designed to dismantle illegal municipal firearms ordinances, officials said Friday.

[GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco]

Kane needs to be in jail.

[Renegade]

Yup! Here it is after the ad.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?ei=UTF-8&p=pennsylvania+attorney+general+kane+swearing+in+ceremony

[Renegade]

How is this done and who initiates the writ?

[Daveinyork]

I wish I knew, but I seem to remember that a writ of mandamus is an order for an official to do his job.

[eyeamok]

Abandonment of Client complaints by the thousands should do the trick!

Have her Disbarred.

[WMarshal]

The possible solution would be to hold an emergency session of the legislature and pass a law establishing an independent team of lawyers to be directed by the legislature majority that is to defend this law. Corbett is still governor.

[amnestynone]

Does anyone here really want Kane to defend the law? Better let some one else.

[Ditto]

Very little in the way of context is provided - not enough party information to help draw conclusions, not enough background info to even tell if the event is in support of gun rights or opposing them.

Basically, it is a law that prevents local municipalities from enacting ordinances that impose restrictions on citizens gun rights. It basically short circuits the Bloomberg 'Mayors against guns" machine in Pennsylvania.

It's decidely pro-gun.

[Ditto]

Here a pretty fair discription of the law.

The act in question is designed to give gun owners a powerful new tool to take legal challenges to any of the scores of cities and towns, including Harrisburg, Lancaster and York, that have adopted local gun laws.
That tool is a statutory blessing for "a membership organization" — like the well-endowed NRA, but also any number of smaller, in-state groups — to challenge the local laws.
If challenges to local ordinances are successful, the municipality could also be on the hook for the plaintiff's legal fees, expert witness fees, all court costs and any compensation for lost income.

Source Article; http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/12/pennsylvania_attorney_general_16.html

[Secret Agent Man]

not to mention making administrative law so immense and overbearing everyone wants those people executed.

[tanknetter]

So she’s offering no defence against the NRA’s lawsuit? Isn’t that good news? Isn’t that rolling over and leaving it to the governor to defend if he will? I’m confused.

The article is poorly worded.

My read is that there's a pro-gun law on the PA books that passed overwhelmingly. There's a lawsuit by gungrabbers challenging that law. The PA AG is refusing to defend the law against the gungrabbers.

As said above, this is a backdoor way to use the judicial system to negate popular, duly-passed and enacted laws. The defendant refuses to defend, and there's summary judgement in the plaintiff's favor.

[marktwain]

These two articles explain it.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/10/pa-house-moves-to-spank-scofflaw.html

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/11/pa-local-governments-file-lawsuit-to.html