Political Quotes

“I say to my colleague from Nevada, it comes down to their horrible record on gun rights. It made it impossible for these two organizations to conclude that they would be impartial constitutional judges on this issue even though they tried to convince Senators otherwise during their confirmation hearings. These groups had their concerns about Justice Sotomayor validated on June 30, 2010, when she ruled again that the second amendment is not a fundamental right. Justice Sotomayor assured Senators during her hearing that she believed the second amendment guaranteed an individual right to keep and bear arms. But then in her first ruling on the second amendment as a Supreme Court Justice, she joined the minority opinion in McDonald v. Chicago and failed to protect this individual right, as confirmed by the majority of the Court, for citizens living in the 50 States.…”