Stop Sunstein!!!

[Mr.357Sig]

Guys and gals,

I urge you all to go to this website http://stopsunstein.com/ and sign the petition to your senators to stop the confirmation of Cass Sunstein.

He is a super radical, anti-gun, anti-hunting nut job. Please sign the petition and pass on the website to your friends.

 

[Kai]

Beck just did a great transcript on why this guy is dangerous. We have to get this information out there and to the Senators before its too late:

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/30255/

 

[lockoutmonkey]

I am appalled at these morons. I also signed the petition.

 

[buckeye]

Don't like him.

E-mails sent to our senators.

 

[angsniper]

Done!

 

[mons meg]

FWIW, he may be a wingnut on some issues, but he's probably the most 2A friendly member of the Obama Administration, according to Dave Kopel:

http://volokh.com/posts/1252441367.shtml

[David Kopel, September 8, 2009 at 4:22pm] Trackbacks
Cass Sunstein and the Second Amendment:

Second Amendment Minimalism: Heller as Griswold appeared in a symposium issue of the Havard Law Review last fall. Sunstein examines the parallels between Heller and Griswold: "In both cases, the Court spoke on behalf of the contemporary sentiment of a national majority against a national outlier...No less than the right of privacy, and notwithstanding the backward-looking nature of the Court's opinion, the right to have guns is likely to evolve over time through case-by-case judgments made under the influence of contemporary social commitments."

Sunstein also notes an important distinction between Griswold and Heller:

There is an important historical difference to be pondered as well. Heller is the product of a mature current of constitutional thought, spurred by private groups but also by committed academics, that had clearly become prominent in nationwide politics and culture and that, by 2008, had established itself as thoroughly mainstream. In sharp contrast, Griswold was the result of an early effort by an incipient movement for reproductive rights and sex equality that had yet to become highly visible on the nation's cultural viewscreen. In this sense, Heller has far more in common with Brown v. Board of Education than with Griswold-in the particular sense that Brown, like Heller, was the culmination of a long process of advocacy, in a self-conscious effort to entrench a certain understanding of the Constitution in the interest of social reform. In short, Heller and Griswold have distinctive sociologies. While the two are both responsive to public convictions, the cultural backdrop for the two decisions was radically different.

As a description of judicial behavior, I think Sunstein's article is accurate. He would prefer that the Second Amendment be interpreted to uphold gun laws which I might consider to be infringements. However, Sunstein makes it clear that he considers Heller rightly decided; he is no originalist, but instead believes that the Court owed some deference to the moral commitments of tens of millions of Americans. Thus, Sunstein qualifies as among the most "pro-Second Amendment" of Obama administration nominees.

This is, admittedly, a very small group. Other than Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, I cannot think of any Obama nominee with a record of doing anything to support an individual Second Amendment right that includes the right to own a handgun.

I echo Ilya's point (see the chained post) that Sunstein has a much more pro-liberty perspective than anyone else that Obama might nominate to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Policy.

I only posted this because this is the 2A forum, and on the 2A, Sunstein doesn't seem to be much of a threat.

 

[Kai]

This is the guy that said:

"[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the Court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. "

There's no way he's 2A friendly. This is also the guy that said to outlaw all hunting.


Anyone have any news on the vote that went down today???

 

[Kai]

Son of a.... he made it in:

http://whovotedhow.com/cass-sunstein-cloture-vote-results/

 

[thayton]

Not surprised just more of the same

 

[berettaman]

Not in yet. This was just a vote to close debate on his nomination. The full senate has not voted to confirm him yet.