{"id":6252,"date":"2012-06-11T14:12:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2012-06-11T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T18:12:36","slug":"caitlin-halligan-renominated-to-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Halligan renominated to federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/07\/us\/senate-gop-blocks-confirmation-of-caitlin-halligan-as-judge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/2012\/06\/potus-nominates-former-new-york-state-solicitor-general-caitlin-halligan-to-fe\" target=\"_blank\">renominated<\/a> former\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caitlin_Halligan\" target=\"_blank\">NYS Solicitor General Caitlin Halligan<\/a> to the federal district court in Washington D.C..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/legislation\/federal-legislation\/2011\/12\/nra-opposes-the-nomination-of-caitlin-h.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">NRA opposed her the first time around<\/a> on the basis she tried to undermine the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/109\/s397\" target=\"_blank\">Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act<\/a>. \u00a0Senate Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/07\/us\/senate-gop-blocks-confirmation-of-caitlin-halligan-as-judge.html\" target=\"_blank\">fillibustered the nomination<\/a> last December and she was not confirmed. \u00a0Given that the President is even more unpopular now than he was back then I do not see her nomination moving forward.<\/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%3D6252&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=6252\">&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=6252\"><\/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=6252\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has renominated former\u00a0NYS Solicitor General Caitlin Halligan to the federal district court in Washington D.C.. NRA opposed her the first time around on the basis she tried to undermine the\u00a0Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. \u00a0Senate Republicans fillibustered the nomination last December and she was not confirmed. \u00a0Given that the President is even [&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%3D6252&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=6252\">&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=6252\"><\/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=6252\" 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":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurisprudence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}