--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Gun Owners of America
<Gun_Owners_of_America@...> wrote:


Should We be Surprised by Sotomayor's Radical Views?
-- Time to put the heat on your Senators as hearings begin

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"I
will be talking [to Judge Sotomayor] about the question of foreign law
and the question of [her] commitment to the Second Amendment, the right
to keep and bear arms....  President Obama, who nominated Judge
Sotomayor, has a rather limited view of what the Second Amendment
guarantees." -- Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), June 2009

Monday, July 13, 2009

Today,
the U.S. Senate commences hearings on Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was
nominated by President Obama to replace the retiring Judge David Souter
on the U.S. Supreme Court.

In many ways, Sotomayor's views are
out-of-step with our American heritage and with the views of Americans
in general.  For example, Sotomayor believes that our fundamental law
is constantly evolving and that rights are constantly changing with the
times.

But should we be surprised?  The President who nominated
her holds some of the most radical views ever held by a resident of the
White House.  His take on the Constitution -- and the Second Amendment
in particular -- has stationed him to the far left on the political
spectrum.

Consider just a small snapshot of his record over the years:

*
As President, Obama has nationalized much of the car and banking
industry and is now looking to do the same with health care.  Even the
Marxist President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, joked on live television
last month that he and Fidel Castro need to be careful or else "we are
going to end up to [Obama's] right."

* As a U.S. Senator, Obama
was ranked by the National Journal in 2007 as the most liberal
legislator in that chamber.  Realize that such a ranking put Obama to
the left of 99 other Senators -- including an open, self-avowed
socialist, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

* Like many
socialists, Obama has supported some of the most extreme positions on
gun control:  supporting a ban on handguns, opposing the repeal of the
draconian DC gun ban, opposing the right of self-defense for residents
in the Chicago suburbs, and much more.

Obama's
brand of far-left politics sees the Constitution as moldable as a ball
of wax.  In a 2001 interview, he criticized earlier Supreme Courts for
"never ventur[ing] into the issues of redistribution of wealth....  It
didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by
the Founding Fathers in the Constitution."

Sotomayor appears to
have the same view of our highest document, as she stated in 1996 that
law is not "static and predictable," but "constantly overhaul[ed] and
adapt[ed] [by lawyers and courts] to the realities of ever-changing
social, industrial and political conditions."

ACTION:  Please urge your two Senators to vote AGAINST the Sotomayor
nomination.  Tell them to cast a pro-gun vote on EVERY vote
related to Judge Sonia Sotomayor (whether it's a vote on sustaining a
filibuster or a vote on final passage).

Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your legislators the pre-written
e-mail message below.

----- Pre-written letter -----

Dear Senator:

Judge
Sonia Sotomayor's views are out-of-step with our American heritage and
with the views of Americans in general.  Not surprisingly, the
Rasmussen polling firm reported on July 1 that more Americans oppose
her nomination than support her.

Sotomayor believes that our
fundamental law is constantly evolving and that rights are constantly
changing with the times.  But a majority of Americans disagree. 
Multiple polls have found that almost three-fourths of all Americans
believe that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the
rights of "individuals" to own guns.  Not so for Judge Sotomayor:

* She ruled in United States v. Sanchez-Villar (2004) that "the right to possess
a gun is clearly not a fundamental right."

*
And earlier this year, Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel which
ruled in Maloney v. Cuomo that the Second Amendment does not apply to
the states.  This makes her more liberal than the Ninth Circuit, which
stated in the Nordyke case in April that the Second Amendment does
apply to the states.

Please cast a pro-gun vote on EVERY vote
related to Judge Sonia Sotomayor (whether it's a vote on sustaining a
filibuster or a vote on final passage).

I would like to hear
back from you on this.  Although rest assured, Gun Owners of America
will keep me up to date on any further developments.

Sincerely,
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