Democrat Senators are threatening to restructure the Supreme Court in reaction to a potential ruling on a New York City gun rights case. CNBC. The senators, who include presidential candidate Kristen Gillibrand, Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie Hirono, Richard Blumethal and minority whip Dick Durbin, all Democrats, filed a friend of the court brief. The case involves a withdrawn law in New York City that prevented gun owners from transporting firearms. In the brief, the senators attacked the NRA and other conservative intrest groups and said that the Supreme Court was beholden to their interests.
My Comment:
It's hard to see this as anything other than an assault on the very idea of tolerance itself. The Democrats lost in 2016 and lost badly and it cost them two Supreme Court Justices. Those justices will rule against them again and again. Instead of accepting the fact that elections have consequences, they are doing whatever they can to overturn the results of the 2016 election and utterly destroy the people that oppose them.
The Democrats realize that they will almost certainly lose the Supreme Court case from New York. That case was pretty obviously unconstitutional and would almost certainly be overturned. That's why New York City changed the law, they are desperate to prevent the case from causing a precedent that would damage further unconstitutional gun laws. It's an extremely cynical thing to do, but not quite as cynical as trying to stuff the court just because you lost an election.
I don't think the Democrats realize how dangerous this court stuffing scheme would be. Republicans and gun owners would have no choice to see this as a direct assault on them and an effort to ensure they never had a voice again. Stuffing the Supreme Court or otherwise neutralizing the members of the court that actually respect the Constitution would be seen as an act of war.
And that's not a metaphor. Once it's clear that there is zero respect for the rule of law there is no reason not to fight over it. If the Democrats are going to stuff the court and use a new Democrat majority to ban guns then the country is dead and we may as well burn it to the ground and start over. It's the kind of thing that could cause a lot of violence.
The good news is that it's extremely unlikely to happen. Kristen Gillibrand is a complete joke as a candidate and a huge hypocrite. She used to love the NRA before she decided to betray her base to appeal to the big cities. She's also had two terrible debate performance, less likability than Hillary Clinton and is widely considered a failure as a presidential candidate.
The Democrats winning in 2020 is unlikely as well. The guy that has the best chance of doing so, Joe Biden, is against any court stuffing plan and even he has very little chance of winning. Biden probably doesn't have a chance against President Trump in the first place.
Speaking of President Trump, he's been pretty awful for gun rights lately. His bumpstock ban was terrible and he's been pushing awful red flag laws and expanded background checks that will do nothing to stop mass shootings and are ripe for abuse by the Democrats if they ever gain power again.
That being said, compared to the Democrats, he's way better on gun rights. He isn't going after an assault weapon ban, which would almost certainly cause a civil war, and isn't trying to do blatantly horrible things like stuffing the Supreme Court. Though he hasn't been great on gun rights the gun rights community doesn't have any choice. It's either Trump or annihilation.
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