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« on: July 16, 2009, 08:23:17 AM »
Sotomayor Takes Axe to Second Amendment
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Won’t answer whether she believes there’s a right to self-defense.
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The U.S. Senate must vote NO on Judge Sonia Sotomayor!
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Washington, DC - -(AmmoLand.com)- In defending her decision that the states could enact any form of gun control they wished — with absolutely no regard to the Second Amendment — Judge Sonya Sotomayor has developed a new love for Nineteenth Century court opinions.

Demonstrating that she was programmed in her responses, Sotomayor defended one of her earlier legal opinions by citing “footnote 23? of Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion in the DC v. Heller case last year.

But, when pressed by questioner Orrin Hatch yesterday, Sotomayor could not recite the contents of that footnote or the holdings of the cases which it cited. As it turns out, the footnote on which Sotomayor claims to rely, cited — without approval — two Nineteenth Century cases which rejected the notion that the Second Amendment was ‘incorporated’ to apply to the states.
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Her answers got even worse today when Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma asked her, point blank, “Is there a constitutional right to self-defense?” Sotomayor said that was an “abstract question” and that she couldn’t think of a Supreme Court case that addressed that issue.

Coburn said he didn’t want a legal treatise on what Supreme Court holdings have said, rather, he wanted her own personal opinion. Sotomayor would not answer the question, although when pressed, she equated self-defense with vigilantism!
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Mmmm, - I kinda wonder, if the good judge herself was attacked, would she make an attempt to defend herself??? ... Or let her bodyguard blow them away?