Solicitor General Clement Says He Will Step Down

[Guest nraforlife]

Solicitor General Paul D. Clement will resign from the Justice Department in early June, the department announced yesterday. - May 21 2008

Gun activists were upset with him earlier this year because of a brief he filed in the Second Amendment challenge of the District's handgun ban.

Clement agreed with their position that the amendment affords an individual right to gun ownership, but said the lower-court ruling that struck the D.C. law was so broadly rendered that it endangered all federal gun control legislation. He urged the court to return the case for further review; it has not yet ruled.

Clement, 41, has argued 49 cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the government.

A former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, Clement has been a member of the Federalist Society and is well-known as a legal conservative, but he has also been praised by liberal justices on the Supreme Court.

[towerclimber37]

heh.

if it puts the other laws in danger of being unconstitutional, then guess what?? they probably are!!!

what kind of horse crap logic is that??? he didn't want to upset the status quo...the Federal Governments' power over the people so he makes a brief that would take even MORE power away from the people to control their own lives. If those laws were taken off the books, chances are that they'd be redrafted at some point in time in a way that either line's up with the constitution or they'd be scrapped all together.

this guy is a scumbag in my opinion, who is willing to ram big government down the common man's throat. kind of like Obama..."let's do their thinking for them"....