Jackson (Not Andy) and the 2nd Amendment or Guilty Beyond a Reasonable Doubt by Tom Reynolds
Last week, we asked if we can believe the words of Joe Biden and his Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson. It’s not just what they say, but what they don’t say, that matters.
In a trial, it’s good for the prosecution if there is a great deal of provable evidence against the accused. But sometimes there is enough circumstantial evidence to find the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Biden’s nomination for Supreme Court Justice, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, should be familiar with that concept. Even though she never ruled on a major gun rights case during her nine years on the U.S. Court of Appeals, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence to find her guilty of being anti-2nd Amendment.
And one thing the anti-2A crowd has in common is activism in their war on guns, which makes Ketanji Brown Jackson a dangerous nominee for the Supreme Court.
She was a Barack Obama nominee to the Court of Appeals, which should tell you something right there. Obama was certainly a believer in radical, anti-constitutional activism and his close advisor, Susan Rice, followed in that category. As part of being nominated by Biden, Jackson surely would have been interviewed by Biden’s advisor Susan Rice. When Rice is not busy running the Biden administration, she also oversees a “gun violence” team. It is beyond question that any Supreme Court nominee who did not voice strong support for Biden’s anti-gun agenda during the nominee screening process would immediately have been rejected. To believe otherwise makes no sense.
During her Senate confirmation hearings, she was asked, “Do you believe the individual right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right?” She responded: “Senator, the Supreme Court has established that the individual right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right.” She did not say it’s part of our God-given right to self-defense and that the 2nd Amendment only protects that right. It’s likely that she believes it is a right established by the Supreme Court and what the Supreme Court giveth the Supreme Court can taketh away.
As to other Second Amendment issues, Judge Jackson sidestepped questions during her confirmation hearings. It was clear she had spent considerable time learning how to not give away her intentions.
Without question, Biden is one of the most – if not the most - anti-gun President to ever occupy the White House. For instance, he nominated a fiercely anti-2A David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. (He was so radical his nomination was withdrawn). And his nomination of leftist extremists is not limited to anti-2A. The nominations of communism admirer Saule Omarova (Comptroller of the Currency), Neers Tanden (Office of Management and Budget) and Sarah Bloom Raskin (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) had to be withdrawn. David Weil (Department of Labor) was recently defeated in a Senate vote. Is there any reason to believe that Judge Jackson is not in the mold of previous Biden / Rice nominees, since Biden / Rice do not seem to be easing off in their pursuit of their radical leftist agenda.
Some of the extremist anti-2A policies that Biden has embraced are: a ban on the manufacture and sale of “assault weapons” and standard-capacity magazines; placing all existing “assault weapons” under the regulatory authority of the National Firearms Act; instituting a mandatory “buy-back” – gun confiscation – of “assault weapons” and standard-capacity magazines; banning private firearm sales. Gun rights will disappear if Biden can fill the Supreme Court with activist judges who will legislate from the bench, (Jackson will become 3 of 9).
It’s a given that a President will nominate a Supreme Court justice who supports the president’s position on issues. But the Biden Administration, by its words and deeds, has declared itself so radical and so partisan and so out-of-touch with America that every one of its nominees must be presumed to also be radical.
At a time when the country was evenly divided and it was only the ability of the Vice President to break ties in the Senate, Biden ignored that even-divide and tried to implement his radical agenda. Now, according to all polls, the country has moved strongly against Biden’s radical agenda, but that does not stop him from still pursuing it. Common sense (a term the left loves to apply to anti-2A laws) tells us that Biden has nominated a radical leftist to the Supreme Court. Senators need to keep this in mind when they vote.
Senators who support Judge Jackson’s nomination must answer to the voters when their elections draw near. They cannot claim ignorance of any infringement of our 2A gun rights, since the circumstantial evidence is clear.
