Category: Jurisprudence
Newsbits
Saturday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
- Shooters group sponsors candidate forum
- Who is Gary Lavine? Conservative DA candidate is on a mission to oust Fitzpatrick
Jurisprudence:
Legislation:
Politics:
DA: Three people in Onondaga County lose right to gun ownership after showing ‘red flags’
Judge Dolan’s position statement
As a sort of follow-up to my previous post on surveying judicial candidates is this position statement from Sullivan Co. Judge Dolan’s campaign page:
Newsbits
Wednesday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
Jurisprudence:
- Supreme Court keeps New York City gun case on argument calendar
- Supreme Court Keeps NYC Gun Case on Track
- SCOTUS to NYC: Oh, We’re Going To Hear Your Ridiculous Gun Law Case
Legislation:
Newsbits
Monday’s Newsbits:
Armed Citizen:
- Police: Liquor store employee fatally shoots man swinging sword in Port Jefferson
- Buffalo man pulls gun on car thief
Jurisprudence:
NRA:
Politics:
Newsbits
Wednesday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
Jurisprudence:
Legislation:
- Tompkins legislators to consider allowing bear and deer hunting with rifles
- Jacobs, Ortt oppose bill banning gun raffles in New York
NRA:
Newsbits
Monday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
Jurisprudence:
- The biggest Second Amendment case to reach the Supreme Court in nearly a decade, explained
- Supreme Court may be focus of gun control arguments with Congress deadlocked
- Gun license broker who exposed corrupt cops after showering them with gifts gets jail-free sentence
- NY Red Flag Gun Law: Nassau Filed Far Less Petitions Than Suffolk
Politics:
- Gun Violence Prevention Advocates Sign Woodstock Stage
- State Lawmakers Make New Push Highlighting Federal Gun Control
- NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre offered to help Trump fight off impeachment in exchange for him stopping ‘the games’ on gun reform
- Schumer calls on Trump to work on gun control legislation in spite of impeachment inquiry
Newsbits
Friday’s Newsbits:
Jurisprudence:
Legislation:
- Chairman Nadler Statement for the Hearing on “Protecting America from Assault Weapons”
- Jacobs blasts bill banning gun raffles in New York State
- Council votes to bust ‘ghost guns’ — pass bill to outlaw frames, receivers needed to create homemade pistols
Politics:
Questions for judicial candidates
Yates Co. SCOPE will be holding a judicial candidates forum on October 3 in Penn Yan.
Judicial candidates will often try to avoid answering questions citing the need to be impartial on issues that may come before their court.
This is bullshit.
I have had requests for endorsements from both Republican and Democrat candidates running in state judicial races. Nothing prevents them from answering questions. If a judicial candidate refuses to give you an answer it is probably because they think you won’t like what they would give.
In order to cut through their obfuscation tactics and figure out if they support gun rights or not here are some suggested questions for judicial candidates:
- Do you currently own any firearms? If yes, for what reason?
- Are you now, or have you ever been, licensed to carry concealed firearms either in New York or any other jurisdiction? If yes, what jurisdictions?
- Are you now or have you ever been a member of a local gun club?
- Of the justices currently serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, whose judicial philosophy most closely reflects your own?
- Do you believe the words and meaning of the Constitution should be interpreted in the context of present culture or as closely to the intent of the original authors as possible?
- Have you ever issued a ruling in any case relating to the ownership, use or possession of firearms? If yes, which cases?
- Has your campaign been endorsed by any independent special interest organization?