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Everytown and Planned Parenthood Call for Supreme Court Term Limits
AmmoLand ^ | August 30, 2024 | Dave Workman

Posted on 09/01/2024 8:28:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Further evidence the gun prohibition lobby is frustrated by federal court rulings upholding the Second Amendment came Wednesday when the Everytown for Gun Safety “Action Fund” joined forces with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund to support federal legislation to create term limits for Supreme Court justices.

The groups have thrown their support behind a bill introduced last year, H.R. 5566, known as the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization Act of 2023. The bill, not surprisingly, has gone nowhere in the U.S. House, which is controlled by as narrow Republican majority.

In a prepared statement, Everytown President John Feinblatt asserted, “This Supreme Court is deeply out of step with the American people on both reproductive rights and gun safety, which is why Everytown is joining Planned Parenthood Action Fund in supporting the TERM Act.”

The Everytown news release also quotes Christina Harvey, executive director at Stand Up America.

“A single justice remaining on the Supreme Court for decades can shape federal law for generations,” Harvey said. “Right now, the Roberts Court is advancing a far-right agenda that undermines our freedoms, including the freedom to live free of gun violence and the freedom to make choices about our own health and bodies.”

Second Amendment advocates see it differently where gun rights are concerned. The Roberts Court has been responsible for three significant decisions since 2008, affirming the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental, individual right not dependent upon service in a militia.

High court rulings in Heller, McDonald and Bruen have done much to fully restore the Second Amendment as the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights. Recent surveys have shown that liberals and supporters of the Biden-Harris administration still consider the right to bear arms as a government-regulated privilege.

According to a Pew Research report from June 2023, “A majority of Americans (61%) say it is too easy to legally obtain a gun in this country. Far fewer (9%) say it is too hard, while another 30% say it’s about right. (Non-gun owners are nearly twice as likely as gun owners to say it is too easy to legally obtain a gun (73% vs. 38%).”

Evidently, those non-gun owners have never tried to legally purchase a firearm.

In a separate report, Pew Research confirmed, “By overwhelming margins, Joe Biden’s supporters prioritize gun control over gun rights and say gun ownership does more to reduce than increase safety; roughly eight-in-ten Biden supporters (83%) say the increase in guns in the U.S. is at least somewhat bad for society.”

It is a safe presumption those Biden supporters are now Harris supporters

Everytown and other billionaire-backed gun prohibition lobbying groups are furious over the Supreme Court ruling in Garland v. Cargill, which nullified the ban on bump stocks issued by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives earlier this year. Everytown erroneously calls bump stocks “devices that convert semi-automatic firearms into machine guns.”

Everytown also complains that the “Supreme Court in Bruen unleashed chaos in the courts, setting the stage for challenges to even the most foundational gun safety laws, and leading courts across the country to issue wildly divergent decisions on multiple core issues.”

When it comes to core issues, Everytown might look at other revelations in the Pew poll:

All Everytown has really accomplished here is to remind U.S. gun owners that their rights are on the line in this year’s presidential and congressional elections and likely all the way down the ballot to state gubernatorial and legislative races.

For example, Washington’s race for governor pits Democrat Attorney General Bob Ferguson, an extremist anti-gunner who lobbied for passage of bills banning so-called “assault weapons” and “large-capacity magazines” against former sheriff and Congressman Dave Reichert, who is running on a campaign to restore responsible law enforcement, fiscal responsibility and holding criminals accountable.

This makes it all the more important for gun owners to vote in November. Activists at the state level will be promoting voter registration between now and the end of October, and conducting other efforts to get out the “gun vote” in November.




TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; banglist; everytown; evillibiots; plannedbutcherhood; plannedparenthood; scotus; scotustermlimits; termlimits
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Say what you want about Kavanagn, Gorsuch, and Barrett. Trump’s three helped overturn Roe and solidify the 2nd Amendment.

Every NeverTrumper - and any Harris voter - effectively is a fan of abortion and gun control.

1 posted on 09/01/2024 8:28:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

US Constitution, Article III, Section 1= tenure for life.


2 posted on 09/01/2024 8:35:38 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: thegagline
I wonder how the SCOTUS would rule on this.

/sarc

3 posted on 09/01/2024 8:36:41 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes, I backed over the vampire but I swear I didn't see it in my rear view mirror.)
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To: DoodleBob

Do they realize that a “bill” would not accomplish this?
It would require an amendment to the constitution.


4 posted on 09/01/2024 8:37:32 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: thegagline

That’s the ultimate target. The bill will let them frame the issue for argument and public consumption. In the name of good government, it will ultimately pass. It will then be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, setting the ripened issue on the stage for a Constitutional Amendment.

Think of it as the first probe of a military campaign.


5 posted on 09/01/2024 8:48:35 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart!)
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To: DoodleBob
“Right now, the Roberts Court is advancing a far-right agenda that undermines our freedoms, including the freedom to live free of gun violence and the freedom to make choices about our own health and bodies.”

Such deceit.

The notion that gun confiscation leads to the "freedom to live free of gun violence" is proven precisely false in every major blue city, on a continuing basis.

Deceit.

The Dems' middle name.

6 posted on 09/01/2024 9:23:11 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Repeal The 17th
They don't realize it. Amazing the number of elected public officeholders who believe they can do anything they want as long as Congress approves it. They know nothing about the very lengthy temporal procedural requirements involved in amending the US Constitution. Just listen to all the incredibly ignorant blather about making changes to the US Supreme Court simply by passing a bill by congressional diktat, as though they were dealing with a governmental agency like the IRS or the DOE, both of which are supremely unconstitutional themselves, but that's a subject for another thread.
7 posted on 09/01/2024 9:36:21 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: Seaplaner
including the freedom to live free of gun violence

In theory, there IS a place in America that is a gun controllers dream:

Prison.

And yet, firearms and all kinds of weapons are found in this dreamland.

I guess we gotta pass more laws banning weapons in prison.

8 posted on 09/01/2024 9:40:30 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Repeal The 17th

What constitution. They don’t recognize it.


9 posted on 09/01/2024 9:42:20 PM PDT by Revel
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To: DoodleBob

Stop gun violence, only kill yoyr own baby


10 posted on 09/01/2024 9:45:38 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: DoodleBob

So these lefties want term limits on SC justices, but congressmen can stay in office until they die. Is that about right?


11 posted on 09/01/2024 10:05:18 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: DoodleBob

Call all you want, you evil ghouls. Change the Constitution.


12 posted on 09/01/2024 10:17:42 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

“...setting the ripened issue on the stage for a Constitutional Amendment.”


Easy peasy. Just get 2/3rds of each House of Congress to approve such an amendment and convince 38 states to ratify it. Understand, however that the math means that 13 states can block it.

Let see now, how many state legislatures have passed ‘Constitutional carry’? Why I think it’s 29 right now. Sorry Everytown and Planned Parenthood.


13 posted on 09/01/2024 10:18:09 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: DoodleBob

Yup.

Big Abortion delenda est. With extreme prejudice.


14 posted on 09/01/2024 10:18:20 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: DoodleBob

When your morals and ethics are entirely based on current situations...


15 posted on 09/01/2024 10:21:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: thegagline

Guess they’d need a constitutional amendment to do that change.

Good luck on that.


16 posted on 09/01/2024 10:22:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 4Runner
They don't realize it. Amazing the number of elected public officeholders who believe they can do anything they want as long as Congress approves it.

Because democracy.

17 posted on 09/01/2024 10:28:28 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: thegagline

That is incorrect. Not in constitution at all.

Congress can and does put term limits on offices. The FBI director can not serve more than 10 years unless reconfirmed because that is the condition on the nomination.

The Senate can confirm someone with a statutory term limit, and it is a term limit the nominee has accepted by accepting the nomination.

The current justices however are all grandfathered because there was no term limit imposed at the time of their confirmation.


18 posted on 09/01/2024 11:13:38 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: ChronicMA
That is incorrect. Not in constitution at all.

It most certainly is. It is quite telling that you attempt to conflate the Executive Branch (your reference to the FBI ) Article II, Congress (Article I) and the judiciary branch which is governed by Article III.

My guess is that you think you are a legal expert because you saw several episodes of Matlock.

This is my last post to you as I have resolved not to carry on communicating with fools.

19 posted on 09/02/2024 1:24:56 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: DoodleBob

They want to kill babies, but not murderers.


20 posted on 09/02/2024 2:18:07 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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