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Sotomayor Takes Axe to Second Amendment

-- Won't answer whether she believes there's a right to self-defense

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The U.S. Senate must vote NO on Judge Sonia Sotomayor!

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.

But those were also the days when the Supreme Court held that the

rights protected in the First Amendment did not apply to the states.

Apparently, Sotomayor wants to base her anti-gun philosophy on

antiquated decisions from an era when the U.S. Supreme Court was

spitting out racist decisions.

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!

Folks, do you see how important it is to stop this nomination? GOA

mailed its members postcards opposing Sotomayor not too long ago.

Please make sure you have mailed those in. We need a multi-pronged

offensive right now where our Senators are receiving snail mail, email

and phone calls.

And, we need ALL PRO-GUN ORGANIZATIONS to take a stance AGAINST this nominee.

Organizational spokesmen can talk a good game and say they have serious

"concerns" about Sotomayor. That's all well and good. But

unless those organizations (big and small) rate each Senator's vote on

Sotomayor -- when she's clearly anti-gun -- then those supposed

"concerns" are just meaningless.

Senators have to hear from ALL the pro-gun organizations -- big and

small -- that they are going to rate this vote during the 2010

election. Otherwise, those organizations are just Paper Tigers.

We can't let this anti-gun judge infiltrate U.S. Supreme Court! She is

dangerous on so many levels -- but, especially, on Second Amendment

rights.

GOA considers her nomination to be of the most important gun votes in

the HISTORY of the US Senate. We can't think of any other nominee in

recent history who has taken such a horrid stand on the basic right of

self-defense.

She says that she will follow the precedent in the DC v. Heller (2008)

case. But even if she does, that only means that she will vote to

apply the Second Amendment in Washington, DC. She has already ruled

this year in Maloney v. Cuomo that the amendment doesn't apply to where

you live.

-- Tim Macy, Vice-Chairman of Gun Owners of America

ACTION: We need to "pull out the stops" to defeat this

nominee. Please contact your two U.S. Senators today and urge them to

VOTE NO on Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at

http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the

pre-written e-mail message below.

----- Pre-written letter -----

Dear Senator:

Even though President Obama is extremely anti-gun, I still started with

an open mind regarding his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. But

after her testimony these past two days, there is no way that she

should be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

When asked by Senator Tom Coburn if there was a right to self-defense,

Sotomayor said that was an "abstract question." Sotomayor

would not answer directly, although when pressed, she equated

self-defense with vigilantism!

How can the Senate confirm a judge to the U.S. Supreme Court who does

not believe in the rights that are EXPLICITLY stated in the Bill of

Rights?

I also want you to know that Gun Owners of America will heavily score

any vote related to the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor -- whether

it's a vote on cloture or final passage -- for its rating in 2010.

Moreover, GOA is going to publish its rating so that millions of

Americans can see how their Senators voted on this most important vote.

GOA has told me that it considers the Sotomayor nomination to be one of

the most significant gun votes in the HISTORY of the US Senate, as

there has been no other nominee in recent history who has taken such a

horrid stand on the basic right of self-defense.

Sincerely,

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[Volzfan]

I've been emailing Corker and Alexander since BHO announced her as his choice for the Supreme Court. Corker sounds as if he will vote against her while Alexander is proving why he needs to go.

[Guest oldfella]

Corker always responds to my mail, while Alexander seldom does. Corker keeps his promises, and makes his rounds around the State to meet and talk to his constituents, while Alexander does not. On his next run for office, any office, we all need to remember that Alexander quickly forgets his constituents; and don't let him forget that he is there because we put him there, and we can keep him from holding office next time.

Pete

[Bigiron]

She will get confirmed. The fix is in. We should all be reminded just how important our vote is. We deserve what we elect.

[Guest oldfella]

She will get confirmed. The fix is in. We should all be reminded just how important our vote is. We deserve what we elect.

That is exactly what I have been preaching all along; if we continue to "let the other guy do it", it will not get done, period. Wake-up America, it's later that you think!

Pete