Posted on 03/16/2016 9:03:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The conservative Judicial Crisis Network, which plans to spend at least $2 million on an advertising campaign to oppose Judge Merrick Garlands nomination, says the nominee has a very liberal view of gun rights.
JCN chief counsel Carrie Severino said in a blog post that Judge Merricks record on the bench since 1997 leads to the conclusion that he would vote to reverse one of Justice Scalias most important opinions, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms.
In 2007, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit ruled against the Districts handgun ban in Parker v. District of Columbia (the case which eventually became District of Columbia v. Heller when it went before the Supreme Court).
The D.C. government asked for a rehearing of the case before all 10 judges of the appeals court.
Six judges voted not to rehear the case, but four, including Judge Merrick, voted for a rehearing.
Conservatives say thats presumably because he disagreed with the three-judge panel that had ruled to overturn the handgun ban.
Judge Garland was appointed to the bench by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1997, winning Senate confirmation by a vote of 76-23. Prior to that, he served in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration.
Mr. Obama had considered Judge Garland for the high court in 2009, but instead chose Sonia Sotomayor.
Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican and a member of the Judiciary Committee, reiterated Wednesday that the GOP wont consider the nominee.
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No matter what or who he nominates, or ANY dem nominates, it doesn’t matter what their record is.
You can bet that the dems will have enough dirt on that guy to dictate how he votes in the future.
That’s the number one credential on a SCOTUS nominee now-a-days: “Do we own him?” “Can we embarrass him and his family?” “Can he be blackmailed?”
If this guy has been proposed, you can bet they have pictures of him at a glory hole truck stop.
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Look at it this way, if I were them, I’d want guns banned too.
. . . Scalias most important opinions, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms.
No! Let that be corrected, and firmly: Scalias most important opinions, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the Second Amendment acknowledges and stands in awe of a God-given individual right to keep and bear arms, recognized by the Declaration of Independence in its enumeration of the right to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness.
Saw his picture, he has a little NPR self satisfied moral preening sort of smile.
I can just hear his nasal voice...
The article must have been written by a liberal. Garland’s 2A views are not left-wing. The are EXTREME left-wing. The press never wants to use the word, ‘extreme’ with liberals. This time, it really fits.
There are two things about Garland that you can bet the farm on. He will vote against the 2nd amendment and for abortion. There is no chance whatsoever that Bammy would nominate someone with a strict Constitutional view of either the 2nd amendment or abortion “rights”.
Jamie “The Wall” Gorelick’s right hand man. Remember she was on the 911 Cover Up Commission, when really she was the one most responsible for 911. Can anyone say Able Danger!
We don’t need another Justice hostile to the Constitution.
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