Elena Kagan on the 2nd amendment.

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Time to start writing our reps to support her nomination.

During her Solicitor General nomination proceedings, Ms. Kagan provided answers to Senator Chuck Grassley regarding her view of District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008):

"The Supreme Court held in District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008), that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. The Court granted this right the same status as other individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution, such as those protected in the First Amendment . . . . I understand the Solicitor General’s obligations to include deep respect for Supreme Court precedents like Heller and for the principle of stare decisis generally. There is no question, after Heller, that the Second Amendment guarantees Americans “the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.

http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Elena_Kagan#Second_Amendment


If her nomination goes through, the Brady Campaign will have a collective brain aneurysm.

[safeinOhio]

1. No more than the NRA

as they will have no ammunition to fight her nomination. I'll bet a box of 9mm that will still bitch about her.

[X_Digger]

2. It'd be nice if there were more than one statement, though..

And it'd be good to know her activities while Director of the Domestic Policy Council under Clinton, and what her take on the second amendment was during that period.

I'd love to see her full CV with all works.

[SteveM]

4. I couldn't find anything about 2A philosophy in a brief search...

www.calguns.net has not found anything one way or the other, and neither have their posters.

[msongs]

3. terrorists have a right to carry guns on planes, not prohibited by 2nd amendment. nt

[TheWraith]

5. And if anyone, anywhere besides you had said that...

...well, it still wouldn't mean anything, but at least you wouldn't be quite so transparently trolling.

[SteveM]

6. Please cite the appropriate laws which allow terrorists to "carry guns on planes..."

As you know, bans on "terrorists" having "guns on planes" are facilitated by statute, not amendments.

What procedure is acceptable to you in determining who is a "terrorist," or what actions constitute "terrorism?"

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7. Let us know when the court decision....

supporting that comes out.