Does being able to speak make a Judge’s First Amendment rulings also suspect? And another Senator confirms that being a tone deaf, clueless idjit, isn’t a disqualifier from office.<\/p>\n
“Does Owning a Gun Make a Judge’s Second Amendment Rulings Suspect?”<\/a> Jacob Sullum (Reason)<\/a>\u00a0writes about this question, beginning with:<\/p>\n Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R\u2013S.C.) was trying to help out Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett when he asked her whether she owns a gun during her\u00a0confirmation hearing<\/a>\u00a0yesterday. But the premise of his question\u2014that gun ownership might be viewed as disqualifying a judge from dealing fairly with cases involving the Second Amendment\u2014could not be more absurd. Here is the relevant exchange:<\/p>\n Graham:\u00a0<\/strong>When it comes to your personal views about this topic, do you own a gun?<\/p>\n Barrett:\u00a0<\/strong>We do own a gun.<\/p>\n Graham:\u00a0<\/strong>OK. All right. Do you think you could fairly decide a [Second Amendment] case even though you own a gun?<\/p>\n Barrett:\u00a0<\/strong>Yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n CNN highlighted that exchange in a\u00a0headline<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0tweet<\/a>, noting that “Barrett says she owns a gun, but could fairly judge a case on gun rights.” The\u00a0Independent<\/em>\u00a0also considered the point\u00a0noteworthy<\/a>: “Nominee owns a gun, but says she would rule ‘fairly’ on gun control cases.”\u00a0So did<\/a>\u00a0Fox News: “Barrett admits to owning a gun, says she can set aside beliefs to rule on 2nd Amendment fairly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sullum’s analysis strikes me as quite right; a bit obvious, to be sure, but the sort of obvious that people (or at least headline writers) apparently need to be reminded about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does being able to speak make a Judge’s First Amendment rulings also suspect? And another Senator confirms that being a tone deaf, clueless idjit, isn’t a disqualifier from office. “Does Owning a Gun Make a Judge’s Second Amendment Rulings Suspect?” “Barrett says she owns a gun, but could fairly judge a case on gun rights” … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60789,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60755\/revisions\/60789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Barrett says she owns a gun, but could fairly judge a case on gun rights” — why the “but”?<\/em><\/p>\n