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Two more major gun rights groups have weighed in against the confirmation of Second Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and it appears millions of Americans are also sending a deluge of mail and faxes to members of the Senate.
Ohio’s Buckeye Firearms Association joined a growing coalition of groups last Friday in opposing the Sotomayor nomination. Likewise, the Virginia Citizens Defense League announced that “the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor would be bad news for gun owners.”
It is critical to the future of our country that we have justices who respect and uphold our Constitution. Judge Sotomayor has proven that she does not respect the Second Amendment. Our country cannot afford to find out what other civil rights she aims to repeal. - Jim Irvine, Chairman of Buckeye Firearms Association
Hearings have opened with far too many people insisting that Sotomayor’s confirmation is a sure thing. Nothing is a sure thing, although with 60 Democrat votes in the Senate, one would anticipate that Judge Sotomayor will be seated on the high court. Then the nation will have an opportunity to find out whether “a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.”
Americans need to know whether you would limit the scope of the Second Amendment – and whether we can count on you to uphold one of the fundamental liberties enshrined in our Bill of Rights. - Sen. John Cornyn, (R-TX)
Newspapers and news magazines are already reporting that Republicans will grill Sotomayor over her philosophy toward the Second Amendment. There are enough concerns that a coalition of 25 of the nation’s top gun rights leaders sent a letter to the Senate last week, opposing the confirmation. Opening statements reflect that intention.
Perhaps Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, put it best when he said during his opening statement Monday morning, “I believe our legal system is at a dangerous crossroads. Down one path is the traditional American legal system, so admired around the world, where judges impartially apply the law to the facts without regard to their own personal views.
Gun rights ‘are now up for grabs in the court, so it brings a whole new constituency to this fight. This could become a tough vote for red-state Democrats because they don't want to be on the wrong side of the Second Amendment. – Curt Levey, executive director of the Committee for Justice
“Down the other path,” he continued, “lies a Brave New World where words have no true meaning and judges are free to decide what facts they choose to see. In this world, a judge is free to push his or her own political and social agenda.”
Judge Sotomayor has already been part of two rulings hostile to the individual citizen’s right to keep and bear arms, one of them earlier this year, and months after the Supreme Court on which she hopes to sit ruled that the Second Amendment affirms and protects that individual civil right.
Her confirmation may well be “in the bag,” but if Sessions and others on the panel have the intestinal fortitude to press her on her Second Amendment views, at least the nation will know if Sonia Sotomayor is bringing "Latina wisdom" or Liberal partisanship to the highest court in the land.
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