As we are enjoying our Thanksgiving leftovers, some of us are thinking about the next set of issues over which the Left will spontaneously combust. Funny how it’s often timed perfectly for the next political fight and they are relatively quiet until people start paying attention after the New Year.
When Democrats gain control of the house in January, they will be fighting harder than ever to convince us that law-abiding citizens shouldn’t be trusted to have guns to defend themselves. Not long ago, they balked bitterly at the accusation that their real goal was to repeal the Second Amendment. Now, many have finally started to admit that this is precisely what they had in mind all along. Good for them. Better for us. They are easier to beat when they tell the truth. Unfortunately, that’s never very often...........To Read More.....
My Take - This is interesting as articles have come out about former Justice Stevens apparently about a book he's writing, and he tell the world about cases he considers to have been wrongly decided by the Court. He considers the 5-4 decison in that case District of Columbia v. Heller "as bad as any in my tenure." In this case the Supreme Court decided the Second Amendment is what it is and nothing more. They recognized the right of someone to own guns without being dismanted, or have trigger locks, both of which "the Court believed went against the entire purpose of having a firearm: for self-defense".
He's the one who wrote the wrongly decided opinon in Kelo v. City of New London "holding that the “public use” requirement for a governmental taking of private property could be satisfied as long as polticians decided that there was a “public purpose” for the taking." This allowed "developers [to] use the power of eminent domain to take private property away from lower and middle-class homeowners merely by convincing their poltical cronies that the developers could put it to a better use."
Well, in the world of the sane, most everything this partisan left wing judicial hack favored was a bad as everything in his tenure. "His opinions weren’t worth much when he was on the Court. They are worth nothing now."
The left may drool over his writing, but in my opinion history will not be kind to he and his ilk.
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