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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor lied to Judicial Committee on Second Amendment

June 30, 2010 ironmillmedia 2

When Supreme court nominee Sotomayor said that the Second Amendment as an individual right was settled law, she did one of two things: She lied to the Senate Judicial committee or changed her mind. We think the former as she told Sen. Mark Udall, she considered the 2008 ruling that struck down a Washington, D.C., gun ban as settled law”
In her first action at a second amendment case, Sotomayor and others wrote the opposition opinion on the second amendment as an “individual Right” saying that hand gun ownership was not an “individual right”. Settled law was unsettling to Sotomayor and since a few law journals wrote against the issue. So settled law is unsettling to this Justice.
What bothers this writer is that we have another Supreme Court Nominee, Kagan, who is testifying before the Judicial committee saying that Handgun ownership as an individual right is settled law.
Here is a real legal opinion:

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McChrystal to Retire

June 28, 2010 ironmillmedia 0

Less than a week after President Barack Obama fired him as commander in Afghanistan over intemperate remarks to Rolling Stone magazine, Gen. Stanley McChrystal has […]