Virginia lawmaker proposes felony charges for any member of Congress who writes gun laws

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Afar-right Virginia delegate who attended former President Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally has a new idea, reported The Daily Beast on Thursday: prosecute members of Congress who write gun control laws.

"In a Wednesday email, first reported by Virginia political journalist Brandon Jarvis, March solicited funds from supporters who 'oppose Joe Biden and his anti-gun schemes,'" reported Kelly Weill. "If re-elected, March wrote, 'I will lead the effort to outlaw every single Federal Anti-Gun Edict or ‘rule change’ here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and make it a felony to try to push these anti-gun schemes on law-abiding citizens.' It’s unclear how such legislation would possibly work, even in the unlikely event that it is enacted. Would U.S. senators who voted for gun laws be extradited to Virginia? March did not return a call or email request for clarification."

"In her email, March offered a baroque legal theory to support the hypothetical bill," said the report. "'You see, James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, and Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence both authored another key piece of legislation that passed — the 1798 Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,' she wrote. “In these Resolutions Jefferson said States must ‘nullify’ any and all unconstitutional actions by the Federal Government and Madison said it is the ‘duty’ of State Delegates to do so.'"

According to Jarvis, these resolutions were commonly invoked by Confederate supporters in favor of secession, and segregationists protesting Brown v. Board of Education. And they are contradicted by a report written by Madison in 1800 for the Virginia General Assembly that states do not have the authority to nullify federal law.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virginia-lawmaker-proposes-felony-charges-for-any-member-of-congress-who-writes-gun-laws/ar-AA18J74X

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Okay

Let’s prosecute lawmakers who write anti abortion laws, then. Just to piss them off.

[Lovie777]

2. It's something seriously mentally wrong with these people.........

[flying_wahini]

3. Group ignorance.

[kacekwl]

7. And those

who agree with them.

[spanone]

4. So many flagrant morons in congress....

[In It to Win It]

5. Imagine if they felt this way about voter restriction laws

[onenote]

6. Without looking I knew this was a Raw Story headline.

Hyperbolic and misleading as usual.

[jmowreader]

8. More proof that people who claim to love the Constitution the most have never read the thing

Young lady, have you ever heard of the Supremacy Clause?

Please, please, PLEASE elect me to a state legislature. The first thing I will drop in the hopper is a bill requiring anyone who authors a bill that potentially runs afoul of the US or State Constitution must include in the text of the bill the taxes that will be increased to pay for the lawsuits that will follow if it passes. AND these taxes must hit both personal and corporate taxpayers. Further, any person running for reelection must state in all their print, television and radio ads how many times taxes have been raised due to their unconstitutional legislation, and the tax revenues that have gone toward defending the state from these laws. "Vote for me! I raised your taxes nineteen times and cost you $23 million!" is NOT the kind of thing politicians want getting around.