Ken Cuccinelli: “This is a huge distraction and it's going to remain one for a while until -- until they appoint someone beyond reproach…”

And famously, Mason said, we are the militia. They are the whole people, and that was never disputed in that time period and the Commonwealth didn’t dispute that.

One of the things Mason was concerned about, and it came out of the Stuart era that led into the Glorious Revolution and the right to bear arms being broadly spread out, was the Stuarts’ use of select militias.

The answer is no. I was never ordered or asked to do that. He respected that answer.

I anticipate appealing the denial of the [preliminary injunction].