{"id":22275,"date":"2020-08-06T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=22275"},"modified":"2020-08-06T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T17:50:29","slug":"nra-being-sued-by-ny-dc-attorney-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=22275","title":{"rendered":"NRA being sued by NY &#038; DC Attorney Generals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NRA<\/a> is being sued by the Attorney Generals in <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.dc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington D.C.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are their press releases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/2020\/attorney-general-james-files-lawsuit-dissolve-nra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attorney General James Files Lawsuit to Dissolve NRA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oag.dc.gov\/release\/ag-racine-sues-nra-foundation-diverting-charitable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AG Racine Sues NRA Foundation for Diverting Charitable Funds to Support Wasteful Spending by NRA and Its Executives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NRA retaliated by countersuing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tishjames\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tish James<\/a> claiming free speech violations:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: The NRA *countersued* \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewYorkStateAG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NewYorkStateAG<\/a>\u2069 in federal court today, with claims that the AG violated its 1st Amendment rights using her power to \u201csilence the NRA\u2019s advocacy and neutralize it as an opposing political force\u201d \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Law360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Law360<\/a>\u2069<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LSUYNTVdRS\">https:\/\/t.co\/LSUYNTVdRS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Frank G. Runyeon (@frankrunyeon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frankrunyeon\/status\/1291419330006179846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center> <\/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%3D22275&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=22275\">&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=22275\"><\/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=22275\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA is being sued by the Attorney Generals in New York and Washington D.C.. Here are their press releases: Attorney General James Files Lawsuit to Dissolve NRA AG Racine Sues NRA Foundation for Diverting Charitable Funds to Support Wasteful Spending by NRA and Its Executives NRA retaliated by countersuing Tish James claiming free speech [&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%3D22275&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=22275\">&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=22275\"><\/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=22275\" 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":[14,26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurisprudence","category-nra","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275","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=22275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22280,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions\/22280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}