BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 Failing to get traction for his anti-gun agenda in Congress, Barack Obama is trying instead to stack the federal courts with liberal anti-gunners, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s gun prohibitionist agenda has fallen on deaf ears on Capitol Hill,\u201d said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. \u201cHis administration\u2019s attempt to revive the ban on semiautomatic sporting rifles by exploiting the Mexican drug war was a bust. He had to sign legislation allowing guns for personal protection in national parks, even after his Justice Department refused to defend the Interior Department against a lawsuit that prevented an earlier firearms rule from taking effect.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut now he is picking judicial nominees that will almost certainly legislate from the bench,\u201d he continued. \u201cSupreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has already ruled that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. We\u2019ve learned that Sotomayor\u2019s nomination is supported by ACORN, the publicly-funded anti-gun group that supported a Jersey City gun control ordinance that was struck down by the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cObama\u2019s nomination of David Hamilton to a position on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is equally troubling,\u201d Gottlieb added, \u201cbecause Hamilton reportedly is a former ACORN fundraiser. Even the president once worked with the anti-gun rights ACORN as a leadership trainer.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeventy years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to stack the Supreme Court to push his social agenda, and he failed,\u201d Gottlieb recalled. \u201cPresident Obama tried to use his cabinet to rally support for a gun ban renewal and he failed, so now he\u2019s planning to stack the courts with anti-gun ACORN nominees.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica has had enough Left-wing judicial activism from the federal bench,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIn Judge Sotomayor\u2019s own words, \u2018I don\u2019t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstances. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.\u2019 That includes honoring the Second Amendment. It does not include manipulating the courts to accomplish from the bench what cannot be achieved through Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This from CCRKBA: BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 Failing to get traction for his anti-gun agenda in Congress, Barack Obama is trying instead to stack the federal courts with liberal anti-gunners, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. \u201cPresident Obama\u2019s gun prohibitionist agenda has fallen on deaf ears on Capitol Hill,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-janich","category-second-amendment","tag-ccrkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}