{"id":1472,"date":"2010-05-13T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2010-05-13T17:01:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:01:53","slug":"kagan-not-sympathetic-to-gun-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"Kagan ‘not sympathetic’ to gun rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Bloomberg.com, “Kagan Was \u2018Not Sympathetic\u2019 as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

“Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> law clerk in 1987 that she was \u201cnot sympathetic\u201d toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol. \u00a0Kagan … made the comment to Justice Thurgood Marshall<\/a>, urging him in a one-paragraph memo to vote against hearing the District of Columbia man\u2019s appeal. The man\u2019s \u201csole contention is that the District of Columbia\u2019s firearms statutes violate his constitutional right to \u2018keep and bear arms,\u2019\u201d Kagan wrote. \u201cI\u2019m not sympathetic.\u201d<\/strong> …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I figured that sooner or later something like this would turn up.<\/p>\n