... brief filed by U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, who represents the government and the Bush administration before the Supreme Court. Clement said that the court should recognize the individual right but that the lower court's ruling was so broad it could endanger federal gun-control measures, such as a ban on possession of new machine guns. Clement urged the court to send the D.C. law, the strictest in the nation, back to lower courts for further review.If the Clinton administration had argued the same thing, the Republican party and the NRA would have leapt all over it and shouted about how the liberals want to take our guns away. What is it with people wearing blinders when it comes to the policies of people that supposedly belong to the same party? While this is clearly not the first infringement (understatement?) of civil liberties this administration has helped perpetuate, it is one I would expect the Right to be, well, up in arms about.
Friday, March 21, 2008
You can't trust Bush with anything...
Not even to be a champion of Second Amendment rights. The case before the Supreme Court right now, District of Columbia v. Heller, on the constitutionality of D.C.'s ban on handguns, has the administration asking that the Court send it back to a lower court:
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The NRA did express dissapointment about the Justice Department's position. John Ashcroft would not have let this happen.
One of Bush's shortcommings, but sometimes a strength, is he will let people he appoints do their thing. I think Bob Novak had an article on this and he speculated Bush was too scared of Congressional critisim for interfering with the functions of the cabinet secretaries. These are people who work for him.
Supposedly, the true administration view is representeted by the brief that Dick Cheney filled.
Cheney didn't file a brief, he signed on a brief filed by many Senators and Representatives. While doing so, he made it clear that he was agreeing with that brief as part of the Legislature, not the Executive.
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