{"id":4281,"date":"2010-06-29T22:21:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T03:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2010-06-30T00:25:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T05:25:58","slug":"the-sotomayor-switcheroo-and-the-kagan-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/the-sotomayor-switcheroo-and-the-kagan-nomination\/4281\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sotomayor switcheroo, and the Kagan nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor, by joining the Breyer dissent in <em>McDonald<\/em> which called for Heller to be over-ruled, contradicted what she had  told the Senate last summer. I supply the details in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/jun\/29\/sotomayor-targets-guns-now\/\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed<\/a> for  the <em>Washington Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday (or perhaps, early on Friday), I will be testifying on  the Kagan nomination. My written testimony will be posted by Wednesday  morning.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sotomayor\u2019s disappointing performance highlights the  importance for Senators who care about Second Amendment rights learning  more about Ms. Kagan\u2019s actual views, and not settling for vapid  platitudes about \u201csettled law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>************<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>David B. Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute,  a public policy research organization in Golden, Colorado, and is an  Associate Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute, in Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0936783583?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=cascityinassociw&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0936783583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"aimingforliberty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/aimingforliberty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>His latest book, <\/em><a id=\"static_txt_preview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0936783583?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=cascityinassociw&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0936783583\" target=\"_blank\">Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And  Future of  Freedom and Self-Defense<\/a><em>, covers topics ranging from the origins  of the Washington, DC gun ban to the Heller decision. He discusses the  genesis of modern American gun control, the KKK, the true anti-gun  agenda and the deceptions and errors used to promote anti-gun laws. He  covers the right to self defense from Judeo Christian perspectives.  Other chapters explore United Nations and International gun control  attempts and failures, law enforcement abuses and solutions, the culture  of the right to keep and bear arms and the gun control movement. He  concludes his book with a chapter on several prominent American gun  owners from Thomas Jefferson to Eleanor Roosevelt. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor, by joining the Breyer dissent in McDonald which called for Heller to be over-ruled, contradicted what she had told the Senate last summer. I supply the details in an op-ed for the Washington Times. On Thursday (or perhaps, early on Friday), I will be testifying on the Kagan nomination. My written testimony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[739],"tags":[748],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-b-kopel","tag-justice-sonia-sotomayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}