Obama Nominates Anti-gun Activist to Country’s Second Most Important Court

[backnblack]

Monday, 25 July 2011 10:41

In case you were thinking that Barack Obama’s hatred of the Second Amendment was subsiding, Obama has now nominated -- to the country’s second-highest court -- an avid leader in the effort to destroy firearms manufacturers using frivolous litigation.
The nomination of Caitlin Halligan -- formerly the solicitor general of New York -- to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals would put a rabid anti-gun activist in a position where she could do maximum damage to the Second Amendment.
As New York’s solicitor general, Halligan was one of the chief lawyers responsible for New York’s baseless and politically motivated efforts to bankrupt gun manufacturers using frivolous litigation. In so doing, Halligan proved that she places liberal political activism above fealty to the law.
Halligan’s public hatred for firearms was only matched by her zealotry inside the courtroom. In a speech on May 5, 2003, Halligan called for “handgun manufacturers [to be held] liable for criminal acts committed with handguns.”
Certainly, no other manufacturer of another item -- whether it be cars, baseball bats, or anything else -- would be held liable for the criminal misuse of its product. And, as Halligan well knows, the application of that principle to firearms would surely eliminate the manufacture of firearms in America.
It is also significant that a Washington-based anti-gun group openly took credit for coordinating anti-gun suits such as Halligan’s.
After attempts of legal extortion of the firearms industry were repudiated by a bipartisan vote in Congress, Halligan’s office signed a brief calling for New York courts to declare the federal Gun Makers’ Protection Act “unconstitutional” because it supposedly overstepped Congress’ powers.
This, at a time when Halligan would no doubt hold the anti-gun ObamaCare is constitutional because there are no effective limits on Congress’ powers.
Finally, Halligan, in written testimony submitted to the Senate in connection with her nomination, attempted to conceal the extent of her anti-gun animus.
Halligan’s failure to provide information that would clarify her statements, thus keeping her testimony from being misleading, constitutes “fraud” against the Senate. As such, the only role she should play in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is the role of a defendant.
We have to stop this Presidential court-packing scheme. But we don’t have much time -- the Senate could be voting on this anti-gun nominee this week!
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[The_War_Wagon]

Well the first thing this numbnut can do, is throw the book at the BATmen, Eric Holder, Der Kommissar Obamassar, and this administration, for GIVING guns away to Mexican Narco-Terrorists, that are used to kill AMERICAN LEO's and AMERICAN citizens.

For someone who confesses to be for "gun control," let them start "controlling" our OUT-OF-CONTROL gummint and their MIS-use of TAXPAYER FUNDED WEAPONRY!!!

[PocketProtector]

Unfortunately some people are really really slOw learners.

[The_War_Wagon]

Unfortunately some people are really really slOw learners.

OOOOOOOOOh... I'd say he's fOllOwing Orders - frOm SOrOs - JUST fine...

[PocketProtector]

OOOOOOOOOh... I'd say he's fOllOwing Orders - frOm SOrOs - JUST fine...

True True.....but I'm speaking of SuppOrters. Sooner or later they will realize what they have been suppOrting is against their own best interests, along with the Ostruction of Everything American. Gun rights are SPECIFICALLY American, and One of the most hated things in the OMarx agenda.

[bogey1]

True True.....but I'm speaking of SuppOrters. Sooner or later they will realize what they have been suppOrting is against their own best interests, along with the Ostruction of Everything American. Gun rights are SPECIFICALLY American, and One of the most hated things in the OMarx agenda.

once they come in from the pastures, O forget it, it'll be too late by then.

[twoguns]

I wonder if the NRA will be willing to expend some political capital to fight this nomination?
....never mind.

[bluedog46]

Everyone obama appoints including those two ladies ( used very loosley) to the supreme court. This is the danger of not thinking when you support someone because you are mad at a previous admin.


Anyone who apppeciates the second amendment makes no sense voting for obama. It is the freedom that protects the rest of them. All you have to do is look to california for the road america is headed by all this multi-cultural crap. Their guns laws are clearly unconstitutional yet no one challenges it.