{"id":4447,"date":"2010-07-03T23:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T04:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2010-07-09T12:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:49:18","slug":"nra-opposed-to-kagan-nomination-to-u-s-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/nra-opposed-to-kagan-nomination-to-u-s-supreme-court\/4447\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA Opposed To Kagan Nomination To U.S. Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Joint Statement By Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President, And Chris Cox, Executive Director Of NRA\u2019s Institute For Legislative Action:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There may be no vote a United States Senator casts that is more important than a vote to confirm a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0 Now that the Court has clearly stated that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental, individual right that applies to all law-abiding Americans, NRA members and gun owners expect a nominee to the Court to fully support, defend and preserve that freedom.<\/p>\n

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We have carefully examined the career, written documents and public statements of nominee Elena Kagan and have found nothing to indicate any support for the Second Amendment.\u00a0 On the contrary, the facts reveal a nominee who opposes Second Amendment rights and is clearly out of step with mainstream Americans.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the NRA is strongly opposed to Kagan\u2019s confirmation to the Court.<\/p>\n

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, she refused to declare support for the Second Amendment, saying only that the matter was \u201csettled law.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was eerily similar to the scripted testimony of Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year, prior to her confirmation to the Court.\u00a0 When pressed on the Second Amendment then, Sotomayor also referred to the issue as \u201csettled law.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in the recently decided case of McDonald v. City of Chicago<\/em>, Sotomayor ignored the \u201csettled law\u201d of the Heller<\/em> decision and signed a dissenting opinion that declared, \u201cI can find nothing in the Second Amendment\u2019s text, history, or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as \u2018fundamental\u2019 insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has become obvious that \u201csettled law\u201d is the scripted code of an anti-gun nominee\u2019s confirmation effort.\u00a0 The NRA is not fooled.\u00a0 No member of the U.S. Senate should be either.<\/p>\n

With no judicial record, only Kagan\u2019s political career can be reviewed.\u00a0 And this provides no reason to trust her with Americans\u2019 firearms freedom.\u00a0 Throughout her career, she has repeatedly demonstrated a clear hostility to the fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

As a clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall, Kagan said she was \u201cnot sympathetic\u201d to a challenge to Washington, D.C.\u2019s ban on firearms.\u00a0 As a domestic policy advisor in the Clinton White House, a colleague described her as \u201cimmersed\u201d in Clinton\u2019s aggressive assaults on the Second Amendment.\u00a0 She was involved in Clinton\u2019s scheme to ban more than 50 types of commonly-owned semiautomatic firearms \u2013 an effort described as \u201c\u2026taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

As U.S. Solicitor General, Kagan chose not to file a brief last year in the landmark McDonald <\/em>case, thus taking the position that incorporating the Second Amendment and applying it to the states was of no interest to the Obama Administration or the federal government.<\/p>\n

These are not the positions of a person who supports the Second Amendment and, in fact, represent a clear and present danger to the right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n

Kagan\u2019s record clearly reveals that she does not believe that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right.\u00a0 In her recent testimony, she refused to acknowledge respect for the God-given right of self-defense.<\/p>\n

She should not serve on any court, let alone be confirmed to a lifetime seat on the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n

The NRA is strongly opposed to the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0 This vote matters and will be a part of future candidate evaluations.<\/p>\n

To read NRA\u2019s letter of opposition to Solicitor General Kagan\u2019s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, please click here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/media\/PDFs\/Kagan.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joint Statement By Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President, And Chris Cox, Executive Director Of NRA\u2019s Institute For Legislative Action: There may be no vote a United States Senator casts that is more important than a vote to confirm a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0 Now that the Court has clearly stated that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[781,18,192],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-second-amendment","tag-elena-kagan","tag-nra","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}