Mt. Shooting Sports Assoc. Takes Position To Oppose Judge Sonia Sotomayor
July 10, 2009
The very powerful and well organized Montana Shooting Sports Association has come out in opposition to President Barack Obama’s appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. Upon taking this position, the MSSA has drafted the below letter and sent it to Montana U.S. Senator Max Baucus. MSSA President Gary Marbut has sent notification to all MSSA members encouraging them to follow up this letter with an email or place a phone call to Senator Baucus’ office.
Dear Senator Baucus,
President Obama has nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the next associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Judge Sotomayor is on record as of the opinion that the restrictions on government entities that are found in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do not apply to state and local governments – that local and state governments may permissibly enact and enforce gun control measures notwithstanding the Second Amendment. In judicial jargon, Judge Sotomayor has opined that the Second Amendment is not incorporated via the Fourteenth Amendment to apply to state and local governments.
This opinion is at odds with that of Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock, who recently signed on as an amicus party to McDonald v. Chicago, a lawsuit being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In that amicus appearance, Bullock argues that the Second Amendment does apply as a restriction upon state and local governments, a position consistent with Montana people and Montana culture.
Further, Judge Sotomayor’s position is also at odds with that of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, whose opinion applies in Montana, and whose recent Nordyke opinion unambiguously holds that the Second Amendment operates as a restriction on state and local governments.
For this reason and others, the Montana Shooting Sports Association determines that Judge Sotomayor would be an inappropriate choice for the U.S. Supreme Court from the Montana perspective.
We ask you to vote against confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the official position of MSSA.
Tom Remington
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