Notes from the Resistance
The Trump administration argued that the NFA regulations could still be justified under the Commerce Clause. [More]
And I argue back that we need a Bruen-type ruling on what history, text, and tradition say the understanding of what the Commerce Clause authorized was at the time of ratification.
We need it for every single delegated power.
[Via Michael G]
Multiple admin sources tell me the DOJ official pushing to appeal the case to the 5th Circuit is attorney Brett Shumate, who oversees the civil division at DOJ. Sources expressed shock at the extent to which Shumate seems to be controlled by anti-2A and anti-gun career bureaucrats within DOJ. [More]
Seeing as how all hands received a clear 2A directive with instructions to comply, where are the insubordination terminations?
Let’s find out.
I’d have copied Todd Blanche but his old account no longer exists and I can’t find a new one yet.
[Via Jess]
May we assume those circumstances to get the replica to DOJ HQ include “Only Ones” exemptions? The FOIA response doesn’t say. [More]
Just don’t you try getting one of these if you live in DC…
Pursuant to Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 27 and 29(a)(8), the United States respectfully seeks permission to participate in oral argument of this appeal on five minutes of time ceded by plaintiffs-appellants. [More]
DOJ will be speaking in support of plaintiffs against the Massachusetts handgun roster. The Civil Rights Division filed an amicus brief in February.
Gun rights as civil rights… wasn’t that long ago the idea was being ignored, scoffed at, put down by more influential voices calling proponents, and I quote, “wild-eyed extremists.”
[Via Jess]
Tell Your Senator: Don’t Let The DOJ Appeal GOA’s NFA Case! [More]
Assuming they’re not gun-grabbers… otherwise it’s a waste of time that could be better spent exposing and opposing them.
I wish there were a way for gun owners who live in blue states to contact red state legislators to impress on them the importance of becoming a leader in this.
UPDATE
Tell me you’re blowing smoke up my @$$ without telling me you’re blowing smoke up my @$$:
Todd Blanche’s Attorney General Nomination Advances, Gun Owners Want Results [More]
How badly do gun owners want those results? What are they, personally, doing now (beyond leaving anonymous disgruntled comments under articles and on social media)? How many silently move on without so much as a “Not I”… or a shared link?
Looking at the work Stamboulieh has done on gun owners’ behalf over the years, those who know him have full confidence that he is not switching sides but will now be positioned to be even more effective at advancing justice. [More]
View this as a positive development. Even though I’m losing my lawyer, I do.
That’s also in keeping with text and tradition:
“He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one who has no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God has enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend [it]self.” (1747 Philadelphia sermon)
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division on Tuesday asked a federal court to grant an injunction blocking California’s ban on Glock pistols. [More]
Imagine that– DOJ enforcing the Second Amendment.
It seems like only yesterday I had to write a letter to NRA-ILA telling them to call off their rep who was discouraging gun owners from supporting the effort by dismissing us as, quote, “wild-eyed extremists.”
[Via Jess]
I do not understand why these lawyers are not being babysat by the Second Amendment unit of the Department of Justice because I cannot believe that people like Harmeet Dhillon would have signed off on the brief that was just filed by the Department of Justice in the Chris Brown versus BATF case… [Watch]
I understand why. I can believe it.
I don’t blame embedded subversives any more than the frog should blame the scorpion. I blame those they report to who have let them stay on and get away with it.
[Via Jess]
The Biden Justice Department retaliated against the Drug Enforcement Administration agent who exposed an operation allowing hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to enter the United States, the whistleblower’s lawyer said… The fentanyl operation has drawn comparisons to “Operation Fast and Furious,” a Justice Department gunwalking scandal that occurred during the Obama administration. [More]
Ask yourself how those who want to disarm us benefit from guns to cartels or drugs to addicts and a very disturbing picture emerges.
They are monsters.
[Via Michael G]
The need to apply consistent criteria is not only a matter of basic fairness, but of law. [More]
The very first comment needs to be addressed. With an initial estimate of 50 FTEs processing applications, the need to minimize subjectivity and establish consistency should be self-evident, especially noting how DOJ has shown it can still be all over the board on 2A, even under a “pro-gun administration.”
Further noting this is a rule and not a law, it’s not hard to see how lack of clear criteria could allow all kinds of negative dispositions under a new administration for those applicatons already in the pipeline before it terminates the program altogether.
“The Trump Administration is fighting as hard as it can to continue violating the Second Amendment rights of millions of Americans. Even though the Fifth Circuit already held that these bans are unconstitutional, the government is trying to limit the decision’s reach so it can keep disarming peaceable adults across the country. This is how the United States government celebrates 250 years of American independence—by acting like the tyrants we defeated. [More]
Just after getting an “attagirl.”
I’m telling ya: Bipolar.
Justice Department Opens Investigation of Philadelphia Police Department’s Allegedly Unconstitutional Permit Revocation Practices [More]
Glad to see I’m in good company…
From a strictly political point of view, this is a really good move for disarming accusations that the administration is racist. Who is it that wants to ban their guns and who is it saying they have a right to them until and unless they abuse it?
[Via Lane]
Two Former Utah Court Clerks Arrested and Facing Federal Charges after Allegedly Helping Illegal Aliens Evade ICE Arrest [More]
I don’t see any profiling surprises here.
Hey, how come they get a GoFundMe page but Second Amendment defenders don’t?
[Via Steve T]
US attorney accuses California of blocking voter roll audit- Federal prosecutors have sued California to release voter registration records, saying universal vote-by-mail and no voter ID system creates conditions for fraud [More]
Whatever the results, California is still going to be overwhelmingly Democrat. How about focusing on some swing states that were close?
[Via Michael G]
