Sotomayor to Senators: Second Amendment doesn't apply to states

[ericire12]

http://www.examiner.com/x-2304-DC-Republican-Examiner~y2009m6d11-Sotomayor-to-Senators-2nd-Amendment-does-not-apply-to-states

    Other senators have come away from their meetings with Sotomayor concerned about her position on gun rights.

    Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said Tuesday that he was disappointed that the judge refused to say during their visit that the Second Amendment “protects a fundamental right that applies to all Americans.”

    DeMint said Sotomayor’s statement on Heller “doesn’t tell us much” about her view of the issue, noting that she stands by her ruling that held that the Second Amendment only protects against federal government curbs on the right to bear arms _ not state or local limits.

    “(H)er opinion was that the hundreds of millions of Americans in the 50 states do not have a fundamental right to bear arms. She refused to back away from that opinion in my meeting with her,” DeMint said Thursday.

[tt11758]

And based upon everything else we're read or heard of her, this should come as a surprise why?

[ericire12]

And based upon everything else we're read or heard of her, this should come as a surprise why?

Because a Senator in Washington is actually doing their job!

[twyacht]

If, according to Patrick Leahy D-Vt. Chair of the Judiciary Committee, said she'll be confirmed regardless, anything resembling a strategy from the minority party would be to "air" out her mindset regarding the 2nd Amend.  Legislating from the bench (re: Duke Speech), etc,...

If nothing else, it will keep the emails and letters stacking up at the SCOTUS, with absolute disdain for her and her lack of interpreting the Constitution AS WRITTEN.

Shall NOT be infringed DAMMIT!

Oh, and I am not surprised...

I hope DeMint grows an even bigger "set" and spreads the word.. The MSM won't....

[tombogan03884]

Yet she told Mark Udall that Heller was "settled law"
http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=7189.0

Why is my bullshit detector pinging I wonder ?

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[twyacht]

Yet she told Mark Udall that Heller was "settled law"
http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=7189.0

Why is my bullshit detector pinging I wonder ?

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Because the brown nose "meetings" at the Capitol have a stench..

[fightingquaker13]

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Because the brown nose "meetings" at the Capitol have a stench..

Even IF she was telling the truth about her view on Heller it wouldn't matter if its not incorporated. All Heller is going to do is stop the feds from doing something truly outrageous. But its mostly useless unless apled to the states, and she knows this, hell Sarah Brady know this. It might even make it harder for us as  the anti's can then argue gun control as a states rights issue.
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