Notes from the Resistance
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]
About two weeks ago, Ms. Oyer was put on a working group to restore gun rights to people convicted of crimes, she said. [More]
Four Boxes Diner explains the significance.
See, it’s not “prickly” at all, Mel.
Well, maybe for NRA President “Lautenberg Bob” Barr…
[Via Jess]
Is Bondi Going to Deliver on 2A or Not? [More]
Well, she’s already missed the 30-day deadline.
We need to keep realistic expectations on what she can do and whaty she can’t do. That said, one thing she can is to stand down where they’re being d!cks in court.
[Via Andy M]
Texas Attorney General Sides Against State Agency in Free Speech Fight [More]
You could do it for 2A — if you wanted to.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
The entire Department of Justice is starting to file documents in courts basically saying, “Hey we want to put these fights involving the ATF on hold because we’re likely going to be reconsidering them and changing position in favor of the right to keep and be arms.” [Watch]
The federal government asked the Eleventh Circuit to postpone oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the ATF pistol brace rule, saying that it needs time to review it pursuant to Trump’s Second Amendment executive order…
We’ll see…
[Via Jess]
Trump’s Second Amendment order is a good first step. It’s up to us to keep him on the path and walking in the right direction. [More]
There are things he can’t do and things he can. Let’s make sure the changes are meaningful.
Top DOJ official says FBI employees who ‘simply followed orders’ on Jan 6 investigations won’t be fired [More]
And here we thought the Nuremberg defense was no excuse.
Of more concern: Where are the agents who refused to obey unlawful orders?
[Via bondmen]
What wasn’t included was where DOJ gets the authority to create a permanent entry to NICS without a conviction or other disqualifier as defined by law. They’re still not saying. [More]
Try stonewalling when they want information and see where that gets you.
Senate votes to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general [More]
I guess now we see.
Biden’s DOJ makes a final anti-gun argument against the 2nd Amendment in a fight over whether guns can be banned in post offices. [Watch]
Boy, that’s a lot of “gun-free zones” in the land of the Second Amendment:
Now superimpose it over maps of schools, parks, government buildings, “sensitive areas”…
So… when confirmed, is Pam Bondi going to keep fighting for this?
[Via Jess]
All the States Trying to Help Mexico Beat Smith & Wesson [Watch]
A Justice Department interested in defending all rights could put a stop to that.
[Via Jess]
The Gun Owners of America were denied in their efforts to collect a $400,000 attorney fee in their successful work in challenging ATF’s bumpstock case. [More]
When writing an update on my case, I made a mistake on the title of my piece that is misleading. The judge’s order, as the text of the article states, was that “the plaintiffs shall file any motion for attorney’s fees.”
I signed a declaration for that last week to allow for the attorneys to submit their claim. We’ll now see if the ATF/DOJ under Trump still intends to fight gun owners tooth and nail.
[Via Jess]
Oregon’s far left legislature is now in full swing, as are their efforts to crush what’s left of the state. [More]
It would sure be nice if the Justice Department wasn’t so selective about which civil rights it will defend…
