Does Justice Sotomayor really want to know what the remedy would be if the government confiscated everyone’s gun? This remedy would not involve Rule 23.
Nearly 250 years ago, King George III and General Gage tried to confiscate the firearms from the Americans. What happened next? Lexington and Concord, the Shot Heard Round the World. As best as I can recall, the patriots did not go to a Court of Chancery to seek an equitable remedy.
We have a similar story in Texas history. During the Texas Revolution, the Mexican Army demanded that the Texians in the City of Gonzales surrender their cannon. What did the Texians say? Come and Take It! The remedy here was not equitable; it was belligerent. The Texians did not reply with a canon of construction; they replied with a cannon of destruction. This was the Lexington of Texas. And the Battle of Gonzales led to the Battle of the Alamo, which led to Texas Independence. Sensing a pattern of what happens when the government tries to disarm the people?
— Josh Blackman in Does Justice Sotomayor Really Want To Know What The Remedy Would Be If The Government Confiscated Everyone’s Guns?
Are you guys missing the absolute GIFT Sotomayor gave us during this exchange? Dan, this should be a headline article:
Justice Sotomayor admitted that if a President tried to seize everyone’s guns, it would be “a clearly, indisputably unconstitutional act”!
I heard her say it live, and it floored me. The exact quote (which is even included in the Volokh article!) says “You claim that there is absolutely no constitutional way to stop, put this aside, to stop a president from an unconstitutional act, a clearly, indisputably unconstitutional act, taking every gun from every citizen, we couldn’t stop that.”
How Josh Blackman could hear that and turn it into a negative is flabbergasting.
ROFLMAO! You said “Sotomayor” and “thought” in the same sentence!
Hubert Humphrey said something very much like the Kozinsky statement. Probably first.
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Even the Leftists at the New Republic said Sotomayor was an extremely bad judge. To put it mildly.
They didn’t support her elevation to the Supreme Court.