Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Obama's next Supreme Court picks are worse than the first two

two names being pushed as short listers, and referenced in the latest American Rifleman, are really about as awful for gun people as you could imagine:

Caitlin Halligan....whose nomination to the DC circuit was successfully blocked last year, was New York's lawyer in the suits against handgun makers that would have bankrupted the industry had not the Bush administration and Congress killed them off by legislation. Her name is coming up again.

Debo Adegbile, director of litigation for the NAACP and an anti gun zealot who wrote an amicus brief in Heller arguing that there is no private right to bear arms. Nigerian/Irish mulatto, so Obama probably has a special soft spot for this guy.

this is what the election is about. these are the people Obama will nominate to the Supremes and the lower courts, and they'll be there for life.

This is one of the very best reasons, ever, to make sure a Romney type is not chosen. The recent bitchslap he received is nothing compared to what he would get in November & what we ALL will get if the kenyan 2.0 is re-installed due to the unwillingness of the GOP power brokers to read sign.. Ignore it at our peril.

Seems that if Halligan is not qualified to serve on the circuit court....she would be automatically not qualified to serve on any higher court. Of course there is also the argument that any candidate that can be discribed as "she" is a poor choice.

A MAN named Debo???? OoooooK....whatever you think is "right". opposed the Heller decision, so obviously doesn't have a good grasp of the constitution since the Supreme Court decided otherwise.

How would this apply if Obama got re-elected? Or would it?

I have always opined, that as bad as McCain was, he would never have put Sotomayor and Kagen on the Court.
The Rifleman points out that "All our victories, all our rights, all our freedoms, everything is on the line in 212"

They are right. Folks that can't find a pure enough candidate from the GOP this time, are going to help kill America when "exercise their conscience", and don't cast a vote against hussein.

We cannot thank George W. Bush enough for John Roberts and Samuel Alito.

The entire premise and notion that McCain, or Romney are somehow electable is being rejected completely by more and more people. When are those who try to force them down people's throats going to take some of the responsibility?

As a aside,the S.Ct today denied a motion to have Kagan recused from hearing and ruling upon the Health Care law.

I saw that.

Can we be sure that Romney or Newt would not pick someone just as bad?

Bush didn't pick them the people and the Republicans in Congress pick them. Remember Bush's first pick, Harriet Miers?

If they picked a fairy, would you be down?

fixed it for you.

a little early to be lobbying for the 2012 KOTY, dude.

did you get a little ballot in the mail there at the home where you got to pick? was Napoleon handing them out?

Take comfort in this: The election is not far away. The Senate will block almost any Supreme Court appointment that Obama makes between now and then.

There are no certainties. Eisenhower once stated that Earl Warren was his worst mistake. You never know how somebody is going to rule on any given constitutional issue, no matter his/her previous track record.

That being said, I'd rather take my chances with a Republican picking the next SCOTUS appointment, especially from a Second Amendment standpoint.

Ginsberg had notified Obama that she has not plans to retire this year.

Fixed your fix.

Not an overall RP fan, but someone with a goodly portion of his smaller government positions would be about perfect. His dangerous foreign policy positions skeer me a good deal. Enough to not support him for POTUS, anyway.

Romney is chock full of McCain like fail. Read some sign. It's right in front of y'all.

That's true.

i smell an ethics violation.