Posted on 03/11/2023 4:49:49 AM PST by Libloather
EXCLUSIVE - A consumer protection group is warning Republican governors against attempts by left-leaning lawyers to use public nuisance lawsuits as a backdoor way to outlaw guns.
The Alliance For Consumers (AFC), a nonprofit organization aimed at "ensuring consumer protection efforts, class action lawsuits, and attorney general enforcement actions benefit consumers," sent a letter to all GOP governors Friday saying that since the many state legislatures have recently flipped to a Republican majority, they should be on the lookout for progressive activists attacking gun rights through these legal actions.
"With victories through the legislative process becoming harder to achieve, the progressive left is increasingly looking to an alliance of activists, officials, and trial lawyers to weaponize the judicial system against conservatives and impose key policy priorities by way of public nuisance lawsuits," AFC president O.H. Skinner wrote.
"Under the guise of compensation for injuries to the overall public interest, these lawsuits open the door to courts imposing sweeping policy solutions outside the traditional governmental processes or otherwise reshaping the economy through massive money transfers," Skinner added.
Public nuisance laws vary from state to state. Historically, they have been used to protect consumers and the public against things like polluted waterways or hazardous public spaces.
However, Skinner said "activists have found a way to use the court system as a weapon to force companies and consumers to comply with a progressive worldview without legislative oversight or public scrutiny."
"If you hear someone say ‘we should bring a nuisance case,' that is a Trojan horse to accomplish something that you probably don't agree with." Skinner said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Skinner claims that "the true goal of most nuisance suits over things like plastics, fossil fuels, or firearms is seemingly to remove products and services from in the market...
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The federal Lawful Commerce in Arms Act bars any such lawsuits. Republican legislatures should amend anti-SLAPP laws or pass new laws to provide for expedited dismissal of such suits and an award of attorney fees.
Judges should not rebel against the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.
If they do, they might get removed under Amendment XIV, Section 3 and made to repay all government salary, health care benefits and pensions received after rebellion.
Lawyers who hold office via a state bar association may also be subject to Amendment XIV, Section 3.
These Leftists who do should meet a very sticky end, easy enough to get the addresses of the ones who do this and off them in the middle of the night..
Find out what matters to progressives - - attack it mercilessly...
They care about ‘educating’ our children? Lock ‘em out. They care about left wing Universities? De-fund ‘em.
Two can play this game - identity...
The Left aka Democrats plans to destroy the Middle Class, disarm law abiding citizens and seize the throne is well under way.
Sure do.
More lawfare from the democrat party.
We are in CWII, folks. Wake up. War can be and is fought in other ways besides bullets and bombs.
“The Left aka Democrats plans to destroy the Middle Class, disarm law abiding citizens and seize the throne is well under way.”
Meanwhile, leftists, who are the most susceptible to brainwashing and propaganda, are dying by the tens of thousands from kung flu shots.
Yep. The bullets and bombs are just one means to an end. There are others, and they have been very aggressively deployed. Bullets still work, though, too.
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