Sounds like a RICO case to me.
“Tortious Interference”?
Wouldn’t it be great if not only the NRA won this case decidedly but also sued the state of NY and won, oh, $20B or so to boot then turned around and used a lot of that cash to fight the draconian gun laws in NY and got them overturned? Winning!
It has got to be illegal to coerce businesses like banks to not do business with a legal civil rights organization. The longest running one in America. Cuomo needs a severe spanking; both physically and financially. Break him so his great great grandchildren will still be paying the debt he owes.
Bttt.
5.56mm
And people wonder why conservatives shun bigger government. The power to regulate is the power to destroy.
As I kid I learned in history that the fundamental component was economic: state controlled business.
This to me is the definition of fascism.
"Simply put, Defendants [The State] made it clear to banks and insurers that it is bad business illegal in New York to do business with the NRA," the lawsuit says. "As a direct result of this coercion, multiple financial institutions have succumbed to Defendants’ demands [de facto law backed by the threat of destruction of the business and ultimately gunpoint] and entered into consent orders with DFS that compel them to terminate longstanding, beneficial business relationships with the NRA, both in New York and elsewhere."
Cuomo has found a way to shut down NRA. Now we have to hope NRA can shut down Cuomo. If Cuomo is successful look for NY to ban sale of gunowner’s insurance of any sort in NY then to follow up to ban the sale of ANY insurance to gunowners.
NRA’S future does Not, depend upon a lawsuite. It depends upon the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution.
The gun grabbers can pound sand. Period.
I don’t have any faith in a New York judge or jury.
Why anyone does business in NY I’ll never know.
I’d sign up and move all of my financial transactions there on day ONE!!
More specifically, patriots should know that the 14th Amendment (14A) gives voters the power to work with their federal representatives to make punitive civil laws that discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights.
14th Amendment:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See 2nd Amendment about in middle of 2nd column.)
In other words, regardless that post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification activist lawmakers are promising low-information voters unconstitutional civil gun-control laws to win votes, Congress has the express constitutional authority only to make laws that strengthen 2A rights.
In fact, several years after ratification of 14A, the Supreme Court clarified that, while the amendment added no new protections to the Constitution, 14A strengthens enumerated protections.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
H O W E V E R …
While Congress has the power to protect citizens from activist state actors, it remains that all roads of corruption in the federal and state governments lead to the post-17A ratification Congress imo.
More specifically, we're still stuck with a corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration, a Congress that has a track record for not lifting a finger to make punitive laws to discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights.
Patriots are reminded that Congress wrongly ignored unconstitutional abridgment of 1st Amendment protected religious expression and free speech by state actors during the Obama Administration for example.
The remedy for constitutionally enumerated rights-ignoring federal and state governments …
Patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting patriot candidates on the 2018 primary ballots, candidates who will be willing to make punitive civil laws that discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections, including 2A.
Patriots then need to pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day so they can start supporting Trump in weeding the constitutionally enumerated rights abusers out of the system.
And until the states wise up and repeal 17A, evidenced by concerns about the integrity of the outcome of Alabama's and Pennsylvania's special elections, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for the following concerns.
Intel Chair: FBI, DOJ Obstructing Trump Probe in Hope of Dem Takeover in Congress
Keep Pelosi from becoming Speaker again.
Obama: Pelosi will be speaker again after November midterms
Keep Democrats from impeaching Trump.
Democratic Rep. Al Green says he will force House impeachment vote
Young, misguided, newly registered pro-gun control voters who are likely clueless about the fed's constitutionally limited powers.
Possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
Interference from people like Soros.
Hacking Democracy:
Uh... just between you, me, and the lamp post, the NRA can do just fine, thank you, without New York.
The banks and the gummint are the same.
Any idjit can see that.