{"id":20177,"date":"2019-09-24T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20177"},"modified":"2019-09-24T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:34:28","slug":"questions-for-judicial-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20177","title":{"rendered":"Questions for judicial candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/SCOPE-Yates-County\/144287182406918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yates Co. SCOPE<\/a> will be holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fltimes.com\/briefs\/around_town\/state-supreme-court-candidates-to-be-in-penn-yan\/article_30cdf8bd-290c-5bb5-b815-a908d477d2c1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">judicial candidates forum<\/a> on October 3 in <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/9GvRdxmpM4vaE1jW9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Penn Yan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial candidates will often try to avoid answering questions citing the need to be impartial on issues that may come before their court.<\/p>\n<p>This is bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>I have had requests for endorsements from both Republican and Democrat candidates running in state judicial races. Nothing prevents them from answering questions.\u00a0 If a judicial candidate refuses to give you an answer it is probably because they think you won&#8217;t like what they would give.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you currently own any firearms? If yes, for what reason?<\/li>\n<li>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?<\/li>\n<li>Are you now or have you ever been a member of a local gun club?<\/li>\n<li>Of the justices currently serving on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>, whose judicial philosophy most closely reflects your own?<\/li>\n<li>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?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever issued a ruling in any case relating to the ownership, use or possession of firearms? If yes, which cases?<\/li>\n<li>Has your campaign been endorsed by any independent special interest organization?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D20177&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20177\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20177\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20177\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D20177&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20177\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20177\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20177\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2019","category-jurisprudence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20177"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20187,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions\/20187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}