{"id":1959,"date":"2010-07-20T16:44:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T20:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2010-07-20T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T20:44:59","slug":"thank-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Thank Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had many problems with George W. Bush’s<\/a> administration, but his choices of Sam Alito<\/a> and John Roberts<\/a> for SCOTUS<\/a> were dead on and will benefit us for generations to come.<\/p>\n

Likewise Chairman Zero’s<\/a> nominations will haunt us for generations<\/a> to come:<\/p>\n

“The Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a> approved the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, clearing the way for President Barack Obama\u2019s second pick for the high court to be confirmed by early August … \u00a0Republicans also have raised concerns about memos she wrote as a law clerk to former Justice Thurgood Marshall<\/a>. In one 1987 memo, she urged Marshall to vote against hearing a Washington man\u2019s appeal in a gun control case. She said she was \u201cnot sympathetic\u201d to his claim his rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t see NRA<\/a> as being able to stop this either despite their broadcast<\/a> and print<\/a> advertisements against her nomination.<\/p>\n