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MrWendel

(1,881 posts)
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 10:56 PM Mar 2016

Bernie Sanders Won’t Make Gun Control a Litmus Test For Supreme Court Nominees

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bernie-sanders-wont-make-gun-control-a-litmus-test-for-supreme-court-nominees/

by Tommy Christopher

The Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia has thrust the issue of Supreme Court nominees squarely into the 2016 presidential primaries, and this week, that issue got a little bit more interesting. In an interview with All In host Chris Hayes, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pointedly declined to make the individual right to own firearms described in District of Columbia v. Heller into a litmus test for his potential Supreme Court picks. At first blush, it seems like Sanders is just skirting the question, but a closer listen makes clear this is pretty much a “no,” since after he says he doesn’t “come up with litmus tests every other day,” Sanders does list his one and only litmus test:

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Bernie Sanders Won’t Make Gun Control a Litmus Test For Supreme Court Nominees (Original Post) MrWendel Mar 2016 OP
Angling for the rural vote BainsBane Mar 2016 #1
Fuck him DavidDvorkin Mar 2016 #2
Thank god Bernie won't be doing much cosmicone Mar 2016 #3
Courting the white gun-humper vote mwrguy Mar 2016 #4
Good Gawd! pandr32 Mar 2016 #5

BainsBane

(53,001 posts)
1. Angling for the rural vote
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 11:08 PM
Mar 2016

Just like he did in the debate in Michigan when he reverted back to the pro-gun argument on the civil liability law.

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