Second Amendment Losses Spark Gun-Ban Lawmakers’ Efforts To ‘Pack’ Supreme Court
Second Amendment Losses Spark Gun-Ban Lawmakers’ Efforts To ‘Pack’ Supreme Court
What’s a gun-ban advocate to do when the U.S. Supreme Court repeatedly upholds the Second Amendment in important challenge after challenge?
Gun rights keep winning at SCOTUS — and the left has noticed
We’re finding that out now, as SCOTUS recently ruled for gun rights in cases involving marijuana use and guns and Hawaii’s “vampire rule,” and also recently agreed to hear a challenge to bans on so-called “assault weapons.”
One answer for the left, of course, is to try to remake the Supreme Court, packing it in their favor before any more “damage” can be done to their precious gun-ban schemes.
Rep. Jayapal: Court packing is “absolutely” being discussed
According to a news alert from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, that’s exactly what anti-gun lawmakers are trying to do. Citing a report at Breitbart.com, NSSF wrote that U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Washington, has made it clear that expanding and overhauling the nation’s highest court to bend to an anti-gun agenda, through a scheme known as SCOTUS court packing, is “absolutely” in play.
Jayapal made the remarks when she appeared on MS NOW’s “On The Line,” when she was asked by host Alicia Menendez, “Before I let you go real quick, you’ve advocated for expanding the court from 9 to 13 seats. Is that now a conversation that is happening inside the caucus?”
Jayapal’s reply told us all we need to know about what anti-gun Democrats are working toward in hopes of getting some future court decisions for their side.
“Absolutely it is. Absolutely,” she said. “I mean, look, we need a Supreme Court that is not beholden to corporate interests to any president, but is actually willing to interpret the law and not reinterpret it and revisit settled decisions. And this court has shown over and over again that it is incapable of doing that.”