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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie 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 doesnt 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
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Um...that's not about gun control it's about the 2nd Amendment. When did Hillary become anti-2A?
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
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beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)1. Um...that's not about gun control it's about the 2nd Amendment. When did Hillary become anti-2A?
Did she say she would only appoint judges who would overturn it?
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)2. Hillary Clinton won't make the Death Penalty one.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)3. "The individual right to own firearms" won't be changed by the Supreme Court anyway.
This is a non-issue.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)4. Has Hillary stated she would? eom
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)5. Good! I support the right of the people to own firearms.
For some, I think a minority, the term "gun control" hides a hidden agenda which I think is the confiscation of all guns owned by civilians.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)6. There are dozens of important issues, including gun control.
A president shouldn't require someone to agree with him on all of them for a Supreme Court nomination.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)7. Hillary Clinton doesn't think we have an individual right to bear arms?