Ken Cuccinelli: “This was fiat law. I mean, President Obama himself said this over 20 times before he finally did it.”

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

That means no one has had a legal dispute that will turn on the questions that this case will turn on before.

I started, particularly here at the 250th anniversary [of Virginia’s constitution being adopted], by reflecting on sections one, two, and three of the Declaration of Rights, which were adopted at the same time as Section 13.

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.