Merrick Garland has ‘very liberal view of gun rights’(translation: You have no rights)

wash times ^ | 3/16/16 | David Sherfinski and Dave Boyer

[doldrumsforgop]

President Obama tried to tap a moderate to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but he ended up picking a fight with powerful Second Amendment groups that say Judge Merrick Garland has shown antipathy toward gun rights.

In one 2000 case, Judge Garland, who sits on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, upheld a Clinton administration effort to store gun-buyers’ records. Later in the decade, he joined other judges in a failed bid to reconsider the landmark case that would eventually establish the Second Amendment’s protection of a personal right to bear arms.

“This is probably the most anti-gun Supreme Court nomination in decades,” said Brian Rogers, executive director of America Rising Squared, a conservative group conducting opposition research on Judge Garland.

[doldrumsforgop]

any GOP Senator who wants to sit down and talk with this man is a Senator who does not deserve to be reelected.

[King of Florida]

I mentioned this when it was posted yesterday -- the WashTimes went with a clumsy quotation in the headline (quoting from, it turns out, Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director for the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative advocacy group, in an NRO piece). She should have said he has "very liberal views on gun rights." Saying he has a "very liberal view of gun rights" sounds like he's Wayne LaPierre.

[MileHi]

Later in the decade, he joined other judges in a failed bid to reconsider the landmark case that would eventually establish reaffirm the Second Amendment’s protection of a personal right to bear arms.

It was already long established.

[17th Miss Regt]

any GOP Senator who wants to sit down and talk with this man is a Senator who does not deserve to be reelected.

Maybe not. If the senator starts the discussion with the following line, "Judge, the reasons I will not vote for you are as follows:'.

[armydawg505]

A Clinton appointee and Emperor Obama select, only a fool would believe he is moderate on anything.

[nascarnation]

Run the clock until election day.
If Dems win the Senate and POTUS, then wave him through.
Although I’d bet he’ll have a “health issue” and decline the nomination if that happens.

[ShivaFan]

This worm would use the court to foment amnesty and open borders on America. He would forward the cultural genocide of America.

[faucetman]

“... If the senator starts the discussion....”

NO! There should be NO DISCUSSION AT ALL! This nomination is DEAD. It’s a non-nomination. Doesn’t Obama realize that he is a LAME DUCK?

By the way, would we want a justice who is going to rule on many serious issues, who CRIES at his NON-nomination press conference? Can you say “girlyman”?

PATHETIC!

[marktwain]

If a judge cannot be trusted on the Second Amendmeant, they should not be on *any* court, let alone the Supreme Court.

[MarvinStinson]

Merrick Garland was Jamie Gorelick’s principal deputy at the Clinton Justice dept.