Notes from the Resistance
What good is ‘see something/say something’ if no one is listening? [More]
This came out after I left for my trip.
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A new request for DOJ investigation has been filed detailing Second Amendment and civil rights violations inherent in Illinois’ Firearms Owner Identification card (FOID) requirement. [More]
They showed deliberate indifference to the first civil rights complaint. Perhaps an adjusted attitude will allow them to consider this one.
U.S. Department of Justice Announces Second Amendment Pattern-or-Practice Investigation into California’s Los Angeles County [More]
Good, but why California and not Illinois?
I’ll be using this as a springboard to help introduce yet another effort to get their attention on denial of rights in an article I’ll be finishing up this weekend.
Replacing Joe Biden’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention with an Office of Second Amendment Protection, with liaison members like new ATF Chief Counsel Leider, would mean no more surprises, no more cognitively dissonant legal positions, and no more disheartening gun owner who are feeling used, abandoned and betrayed. [More]
All this back-and-forth has got to stop.
AG Bondi: The ball is in your court.
[Via Jess]
Related UPDATE
We’ll see if THIS comes into play:
Protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens is a high priority for @AGPamBondi. To that end, the Department will be re-evaluating some of its recent litigation positions on Second Amendment issues, including silencers.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued an Interim Final Rule removing the Attorney General’s delegation of authority to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to process applications for relief from federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c). [More]
Yep:
Although federal law provides a means for the relief of firearms disabilities, ATF’s annual appropriation since October 1992 has prohibited the expending of any funds to investigate or act upon applications for relief from federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals. As long as this provision is included in current ATF appropriations, ATF cannot act upon applications for relief from federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals.
[18 U.S.C. 925(c); 27 CFR 478.144]
Rendering Chuck Schumer’s appropriations rider against ATF restoring rights impotent by removing ATF from the equation is really smart, and I feel like this is a “Doh!” moment for those of us who never thought of it.. How come no one proposed this before, or did someone, and word of it never escaped the echo chamber?
Yet ANOTHER example of bias/Conflict of Interest with anti-gun IL Supreme Court Justice [More]
More on Elizabeth Rochford…
And ARFCOM News noticed DOJ indifference, @ 5 minutes in…
[Via Non_Fudd’s Ghost]
So, this puts a plus mark in the Bondi record. We’ll see what it really means as things develop. Case in point, how does it override the Schumer funding prohibiton on restoring rights?
The article does not identify the Federal statute the DoJ can act with. A State judge ruling on State laws is, I would think, a matter for the State. The next step is to fight the law(s) in Federal court. [More]
The Second Amendment and the Constitution being “the supreme Law of the Land” isn’t enough? They’re not shy about citing the First Amendment:
The United States has an interest in protecting the individual rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Also, like we noted in the “Ashcroft Petition“:
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to the people of each state the full benefit of all rights recognized under the U.S. Constitution, and Americans living in the state of California are being subjected to gross infringements of their Second Amendment rights and therefore are being treated unequally under the law;
And as for federal courts, sure, a “UNITED STATES’ STATEMENT OF INTEREST IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT” would be a big help.
Gun Control’s Focus Shifts to State Capitals [More]
While Main Justice does nothing about it.
Remember when the focus of some state capitals was on segregation and DOJ and the administration said “No”? (And note the media trick of calling George Wallace a “staunch conservative.” He was a Democrat at that time and didn’t run as an “American Independent” until ’68.)
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Simpson files brief for @TheJusticeDept arguing that silencers are NOT arms & are NOT protected by the Second Amendment. [More]
Did I hear someone say gun owners are losing patience?
Yeah, but he’s only been on the job two months and he’s got a lot on his plate and he’s playing a 3D chess game and… aside from “Would you rather have Kamala?” what excuse did I miss?
And any word on the Bondi report yet?
[Via Andy M]
Yet despite clear evidence of bias, thanks to a U.S. Department of Justice official policy of deliberate indifference, such judges will remain on the bench. [More]
What’s that John F. Kennedy quote about making peaceful revolution impossible…?
The 30-day mark for Bondi to report back to Trump through his domestic policy director would have been this past Sunday, March 9. On Thursday, a Department of Justice official confirmed to ABC News that the deadline had been extended to Sunday, March 16. [More]
Who’s missin’ deadlines? We’re extendin’ ’em.
At this posting, still no official word. Hopefully later today there will be a YUGE announcement.
If it were other civil rights being violated by a state, precedent has already been established that the U.S. Department of Justice would step in and put a stop to it. Gun owners should demand the same for the Second Amendment from an administration that literally owes its electoral victory to them, and our “gun rights leaders” should be the loudest voices making sure it can’t be ignored. [More]
Yo, AG Bondi: A little help here? Or will your DOJ continue being selective about which rights it will protect?
GOA & GOF have been GAGGED from printing the news (uncovered in a FOIA) for 18 months. Despite a recent ruling by the D.C. Circuit prohibiting such gag orders, Biden holdovers in @TheJusticeDept are asking the court to extend this First Amendment violation. [More]
Those “holdovers” report to someone…
UPDATE
Here’s the Motion to Lift Protective Order.
Guess whose name is at the end:
About that “restoration” project…
Tangentially Related UPDATE
Will Bondi snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Because she’s dancing in a minefield.
[Via Jess]
We Caught FBI Using “Minority Report Style” Secret Form Pressuring Gun Owners To Forfeit Their Rights [More]
Here’s the thing: They refuse to identify where they get the authority to create an unlegislated class of prohibited person and if we pursue a lawsuit they will fight paying attorney fees if we win.
[Via bondmen]
The DOJ just filed a rebuttal of our Notice of Noncompliance calling out the ATF on their failure to comply with the court’s order to return FRTs. If we were hoping the new DOJ would do an about-face in this case, this ain’t it. The DOJ is arguing that FRTs stolen from gun owners can only be returned if they under go a background check. Absolutely not. [More]
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
[Via Jess]