Dhillon has also overseen investigations into policies that may conflict with protections enshrined in the Second Amendment, and her office has filed a number of lawsuits challenging unconstitutional laws.
Lawsuits filed include challenges to the length of time it takes carry permits to be issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Virgin Islands Police Department implementing “an unconstitutional permitting process” in the U.S. jurisdiction, and bans on popular semi-automatic rifles in both Denver and Washington, D.C.
These are just some of the official actions taken under Dhillon’s watch, which are all, of course, in the furtherance of President Donald Trump’s agenda to defend the Second Amendment. The groundwork for that agenda was laid last year, shortly after Trump took office, when he issued his executive order on protecting Second Amendment rights.
More recently, the Assistant AG announced a focused effort to hire and train more lawyers specifically for CRIT’s Second Amendment section. A report from The Washington Times stated, “her office’s goal is to have all state regulations that are inconsistent with pro-Second Amendment cases be struck down, settled or withdrawn by the time she leaves her post.” While certainly an ambitious agenda, Dhillon is clearly invested in making progress on this historic undertaking.
Next on her to-do list? The City of Brotherly Love.
On June 9, Dhillon sent a letter to the Mayor of Philadelphia, Cherelle Parker (D), stating:
This letter is to inform you that the United States Department of Justice is commencing an investigation of the City of Philadelphia (City) and the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD). The investigation concerns possible violations of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 34 U.S.C. § 12601, which prohibits state and local governments from engaging in a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers that deprives individuals of rights protected by the Constitution or federal law. The Civil Rights Division’s Second Amendment Section will conduct the investigation.
This investigation would appear to have been instigated after reports of the revocation of permits held by several members of the group The Black Lion Party for International Solidarity, a far-left organization that appears to have its roots in the Black Panther Party founded in the 1960s.
According to an article first published by The Philadelphia Enquirer, the revocation of the permits “came shortly after some members got into a verbal altercation with police officers in North Philadelphia.” The members of the group (which the article refers to as The Panthers) were notified “that their gun permits had been terminated (while) offering little explanation beyond saying the decision was based on ‘good cause’ as well as ‘character and reputation.’”
According to the article in the Enquirer, an attorney representing the group’s leader noted two members who had permits revoked have already successfully appealed the decision. Other members are awaiting appeal hearings.
Whatever the group’s politics, the apparent incident that precipitated the revocations – which seems to have involved merely an exchange of words – did result in any known arrests for illegal activity. There is, needless to say, no requirement under the Second Amendment that citizens take a favorable view of the police or their activities, or, indeed, the activities of any public officials.
DOJ’s CRIT investigation is still in its early stages, and it remains to be seen what the evidence will ultimately reveal. But if it is shown that the permits were cancelled for little more than expressions of dissatisfaction with the police, it may be that both Second Amendment and First Amendment rights were violated.
What the investigation underscores, however, is that CRIT’s enforcement of the Second Amendment is not based on the party affiliation or politics of the aggrieved party. This, in an America where the Second Amendment is increasingly being embraced across demographics and ideologies, is the essence of a true civil right.
The Philadelphia PD are afraid of the words and the sticks and stones.
Well, well. The white Republicans are defending the gun civil rights of black people. Radical black people. How about that!!!
Somebody tell “big mike”, obama’s husband.
Hey, NRA, here’s your chance to make up for lost time. And past mistakes.
Left wing violence and terrorism: … ringleader of plot to attack UFC Freedom 250 with drones, snipers is foreign national [ note: for now its unknown if he is here illegally]
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Left wing violence: Six people charged with kidnap, torture following abduction at Florida resort
“Florida officials say six men … kidnapped two people at the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort and tortured them.
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Left wing violence: Anti-Christian extremism, assassination culture linked to plot against Erika Kirk – report.
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Left wing violence: Maniac arrested for stabbing sleeping 90-year-old Houston store owner to death with screwdriver.
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“These are just some of the official actions taken under Dhillon’s watch, which are all, of course, in the furtherance of President Donald Trump’s agenda to defend the Second Amendment. ”
Its not an agenda, its a constitutional requirement for the President to preserve, protect, defend constitutional rights. The president even swears to it in the oath of office with the part of “…and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” – the Bill Of Rights is part of that constitution and in that is the Second Amendment. Trump just put ‘preserve, protect, defend constitutional rights’ in writing and focused it on the Second Amendment.
We had Biden for four years of that tyranny, and its obvious the left wingers that put him in office and Biden/Harris and the entire Biden admin basically were not interested in the “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States” part given the Biden tyranny era weaponized government, trying to overthrow the country with marx*ist socia*lism, the ‘made up defacto law’ creation to intentionally usurp the authority of Congress, the down right theft of and money laundering of billions of tax payer dollars, the censorship of millions of Americans, the secret investigations, the alliance with the KKK and Nazi funding SPLC while designating innocent Americas as ‘hate groups’ simply because they were conservative, the 300,000 (or more) ‘migrant’ children the Biden admin basically human trafficked and those placed in force labor or sex work, and terrorizing hundreds of innocent Americans including children at gun point and with threat of deadly force or imprisonment for simply exercising a constitutional right ….
its about time we had a President that will do that “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States” part and even put it in writing then follow through on it.