Posted on 09/13/2023 8:38:22 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
A federal judge in New Mexico on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order against state Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s ban on carrying guns in Albuquerque and its surrounding county, on grounds it violated the U.S. constitution. U.S. District Court Judge David Urias said the governor's 30-day suspension of concealed and open firearm carry rights went against recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings and violated the rights of law-abding citizens to defend themselves.
“They just want the right to carry their guns,” Urias said of the several plaintiffs who requested restraining orders on Lujan Grisham's Sept. 8 emergency public health order. The Democratic governor issued the suspension on firearm carry laws to offer a "cooling-off period" in which authorities could address solutions to the state's high rates of gun crime after several children were fatally shot.
Lujan Grisham's order outraged gun-rights advocates and drew backlash from fellow Democrats and law enforcement officials, also Democrats, who called it unconstitutional.
Albuquerque's mayor and Bernalillo County's sheriff, both Democrats, have urged Lujan Grisham to call a special state legislative session on gun crime after the gun ban threw the state into the center of the U.S. gun-rights debate. Mayor Tim Keller said that, in order to fight gun crime, he needed legislation to fix a broken criminal justice system, regulate assault weapons and provide addiction and mental health services, among other measures.
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She needs to be prosecuted, and removed from office. If I am reading it right the penalty is one year in prison.
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/federal-civil-rights-statutes
Seems no politician wants to go after the criminals using the guns.
An inanimate object ban won’t stop the problem.
Criminals are not even getting a slap on the wrist and a permanent record.
IDK why the courts can’t sanction the governor, or any elected official(s) for that matter, when they take actions that are so blatantly unconstitutional.
Sic semper Tyranus!
Seriesly people, whoever voted for this crazy nutcase needs to be locked up.
She needs to be arrested by someone who has NM state or Federal authority.
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Anyone?
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Beuller?
A Biden judge, of all people.
Sure, a Biden lefty judge, why not...the optics are so bad, this judge is pulling her fat from the fire.
They are calling her “Emperor Michelle”. I thought that was a term of endearment reserved for Mrs Obama.
Isn’t violating the Constitution a threat to democracy?
Why yes...yes it is.
It completely violates the Constitution.
I wish he had mentioned that.
Hooray for this judge! But what took ‘em so long. You could have woken up from a coma and instantly known this was unconstitutional.
They had to think about it? Really?
The people in NM need to keep the pressure on her to resign and don’t let up until she’s out of office one way or the other. There’s no room for this kind of tyranny under our Constitution and Bill of rights.
Make an example of her.
Funny how the democrats throw that phrase around isn’t it? It’s always subjective to them getting their way though.
Nobody listened anyway.
Multiple commenters on different threads have said this has been her back-up plan all along. She has gotten the attention she wanted and the Dim cabal in the legislature will put forth gun restrictions that penalize law-abiding people but do little to affect the law-breakers.
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