Posted on 09/25/2020 2:32:08 AM PDT by GonzoII
Amy Coney Barrett, a front-runner for the open U.S. Supreme Court seat President Donald Trump is pushing to fill, is a favorite among religious conservatives.
As a judge on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett, 48, has voted in favor of one of Trump's hardline immigration policies and shown support for expansive gun rights. Here are some of her most notable opinions.
GUNS
Barrett indicated support for gun rights in a March 2019 dissenting opinion.
She was part of a three-judge panel that considered a challenge to a federal law that bars people convicted of felonies from owning firearms. A businessman who had pleaded guilty to mail fraud argued the law was unconstitutional as applied to him.
The two other judges, both appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, said the federal law and a similar Wisconsin one were constitutional.
In a dissent, Barrett said that, absent evidence the man was violent, permanently disqualifying him from owning a gun violated the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
"History is consistent with common sense: it demonstrates that legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns," Barrett wrote. "But that power extends only to people who are dangerous."
ABORTION....
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Funny how they dig into Barrett’s opinions, but did not do the same for Ginsburg: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/ruth_bader_ginsburgs_support_for_racial_quotas_was_hidden_from_the_public_during_her_supreme_court_confirmation_hearings.html
On a more sober note I have always contended that if a person is too dangerous to own a gun, they belong in jail, not on the street.
Just announced....it’s ACB....
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-to-nominate-amy-coney-barrett-to-supreme-court-sources
Thanks!!!
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Violent criminals should not be allowed to continue to terrorize society.
“Her support of the Second Amendment is probably the most important quality of a Supreme Court judge.”
Those who read the 2nd as being primarily to protect our right to defend ourselves against criminals, or to kill Bambi, are wholly missing the point. Those things, as important as they may be, are just a little bit of dessert compared to the main course of protecting our means of self defense against a rogue government (or an invasion by a different government intent upon eliminating our liberties).
Judges are under enormous pressure to cave on this issue, and the fact that “Notorious ACB” has resisted that pressure, and that she is true to her oath of preserving and protecting the Constitution, speak incredibly highly of her. Maybe once she’s confirmed, some 2A cases will actually find their way toward getting Cert - because before now and for several years, it has been a total crap shoot because Roberts has been completely squishy (and I believe that is because he has been blackmailed). Now the Justices can decide to hear these cases because we’ll be a solid 5-4 winner, and possibly 6-3 once Roberts’ blackmailers understand that his vote is now meaningless.
“It is really odd that a criminal can be deemed violent enough to not be allowed to legally own a gun, but is not deemed violent enough to still be in prison.”
IOW, we have been for over 100 years, and are continuing to deal with, a bunch of stupid bastards in the government...hardly a surprising phenomenon for anyone with functioning eyes, ears and just a handful of properly operating neurons.
She is suppose to protect and defend our Constitution... nothing more and most certainly nothing less. Could anyone please point out where in the Constitution that makes precedence the law of the land? Christ warned US about those that sit in the seat of Moses.
Lower courts are bound by the precedents of the courts above them. SCOTUS might use precedent to write and explain their opinion if they agree with said precedent. But they are most certainly not bound by it. The constitution is superior to ANY precedent. Dead SCOTUS Justices are not superior to the living. In fact, the opposite is true.
ouch!
Never mind the VOTERS who PUT them there!!
Well, there is that. Nadler, etc. didnt choose themselves, and they have regularly provided evidence of their room temperature IQs - and yet those in their districts keep putting them back in.
Hope the DEMs really go after her. It seems to make them conservatives for life. Not like Roberts who got in on a 78-22 vote.
A female Scalia. It does not get better than this. Young with many years left on the court, smart legally in the extreme, a strict constitutionaalist. Scalia is looking down and smiling. I love it.
Completely agree. If someone is too dangerous to own a firearm legally, they are too dangerous to be walking the streets. When we allow our rights to be selectively muted based on crimes, all things will be made crimes to ensure our rights can be legally eliminated.
If they can’t take away our guns without cause under the US Constitution and they can’t put us all in prison for practical reasons, then the only option remaining is to make as many of us as possible “prohibited persons”. That’s the route Maryland and others have taken: drum up excuses for why somebody can’t ever touch a gun again and let Federal law help enforce that. “Oh, you got in a bar fight in 1975 and entered a guilty plea so your night and jail and $50 fine were the only punishment? Well... CLEARLY you can’t EVER own or handle a firearm for the rest of your life!” Seriously, they went back and changed the law to add retroactive punishment removing constitutional rights for crimes committed decades previous.
If you don’t think felons should have guns, or you don’t think violent criminals who’ve served their sentences should have guns, keep them in prison. If they’re out of prison, they’re citizens, and they have rights. If they don’t, then your own rights are just one ridiculous law away from disappearing.
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