Bannon says Deep State is winning, and MAGA will explode if heads don’t roll soon… [More]
That may explain this, but still doesn’t answer the question.
[Via bondmen]
Category: Justice Department
One Question
The Shutoff Valve
DOJ cancels grants for gun-violence and addiction prevention, victim advocacy [More]
You don’t even need to justify it as cutting wasteful spending. Just challenge bellyachers to point to the clause in the Constitution authorizing any branch of government to involce itself in these areas.
[Via Jess]
Passive Resistance?
Who’s Really in Charge at the DOJ?
Will Trump fire rogue U.S. attorneys, or is this what he expects of them regarding the 2nd Amendment? [More]
Who’s Minding the Store? DOJ Siding with Letitia James Against Gun Companies
So, what gives with Podolsky’s very public filing, siding with notorious New York Democrat gun prohibitionists? And will AG Bondi and her new appointees now rein him in and slap him down? [More]
We’ve seen enough disconnects to make it fair to wonder if Bondi is being undermined or if she’s just talking out of both sides of her mouth.
UPDATE
I’ve submitted an update to this piece because, per GOA, DOJ reversed itself and is withdrawing from the case. If they’da listened to me from the start and included gun owner reps in their Task Force, they’d eliminate much of the uproar and embarrassing need to backtrack.
Speaking of Inclusiveness…
President Donald Trump announced that conservative commentator Mark Levin, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters and former NYPD detective Bo Dietl will serve on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. [More]
So, why can’t he do one for the Second Amendment?
Let Us Help and Avoid All the Uproar
The Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss a case against Taylor Taranto for violations of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). [More]
If they’d include us in the strategizing, they wouldn’t keep stirring up resentment and need to issuing embarrassing public reversals after cluelessly provoking outrage.
[Via Jess]
Character Will Out
As Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi publicly supported the investigation and offered her condolences to Trayvon Martin’s family. She called Travyon’s negligent parents “amazing people” and described the family attorneys, including Crump, as “friends of mine.” [More]
The left has plenty of reasons to hate her.
Let’s make sure the love from “our side” isn’t blind.
She’s let us down before and her inconstant actions now raise plenty of questions.
[Via WiscoDave]
Coerced Into Silence?
DOJ Won’t Let Us Tell You About ATF’s Next Move [More]
The obvious question: Who’s in charge there?
This wouldn’t happen with a balanced task force.
[Via Jess]
What Goes Around…
The federal government’s main housing loan agency has referred New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime nemesis of President Donald Trump, to the U.S. Justice Department for possible prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud… [More]
Show me the Democrat and I’ll find you the crime.
Two can play the Beria game.
[Via Michael G]
Think of It Like a Legal Occam’s Razor
Judge greenlights DOJ’s motion to drop gun case against Salvadoran, accused MS-13 leader [More]
Deportation sounds like a better solution all the way around.
That oughta p!$$ off the Democrats.
Task Force’s Exclusion of Gun Owner Advocates Means Continuing DOJ Disappointments
Gun rights leaders and legal scholars could be identified and nominated to analyze and prioritize bills, lawsuits, regulations, opportunities, and threats, to advise on judicial and other federal nominees, and to help educate the public. [More]
Leaving the people most affected out of the discussion means they’ll end up being told instead of asked. Or as one comment poster notes, “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”
Brace Yourselves
Shall Not Be Infringed UNLESS…
The Morgan case is a case where a federal judge in Kansas found that machine gun possession charges are unconstitutional in violation of the Second Amendment as it applied to this individual Mr Morgan. This Kansas Morgan decision is now being contested by the Trump administration in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. In fact, the Trump DOJ just argued to the 10th Circuit that the decision down below should be reversed. They argue that machine guns are not in common use for lawful purposes in today’s society and that they are dangerous and unusual items and as dangerous and unusual items they can be restricted by the federal government essentially however they want. [Watch]
I hate to say I told you so.
And “pro-gun” lawyers — the ones coming up with all kinds of apologetic rationales for administration betrayals, helped set it.
The Wrong Side
Do or Do Not. There Is No ‘Try’
NAGR has come a long way since the early days of “controversy,” and is becoming a real voice for SNBIers, with whom I unapologetically identify.
[Via Jess]
The End of an Era?
We, the undersigned, urge the U.S. Department of Justice to immediately sever all ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and formally renounce its influence on federal law enforcement and public policy decisions. [More]
So… no more quasi-official symbiosis…?
Half a Loaf Better than None?
[More]
Gun rights leaders and legal scholars could be identified and nominated to analyze and prioritize bills, lawsuits, regulations, opportunities, and threats, to advise on judicial and other federal nominees, and to help educate the public. The Office would provide a way for the public to express their concerns and to offer ideas and suggestions, meaning gun owners would have a conduit.
[Via Antigone]
A Zero Sum Game
DOJ and ATF Repeal Zero Tolerance Policy, Major Second Amendment Win for the Trump Administration [More]
I want to see what still triggers revocations — and consistency of decisons– before I get too excited, which I won’t do anyway because there will still be an ATF with the power to destroy Americans’ lives over exercising their right in a way the government, with no legitimate delegated authority, doesn’t want to allow.