By: Anthony Morelli
Gun rights have come under heavy attack from an anti-gun judge.
He is using his position on the bench to take away people’s rights.
And he just invalidated the entire Second Amendment in one sweeping ruling.
Politicians who hate guns know that when they pass gun control laws that are unconstitutional, they simply have to find a friendly judge who is willing to let them slide.
That is exactly what happened in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom and the legislature passed a bill that made it illegal to carry a gun in most public places.
The first judge who heard a challenge to this bill ruled it unconstitutional, as they should have.
But Newsom had another card in his back pocket. He knew that he could appeal that ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is notoriously liberal.
And he was able to find a judge who was willing to throw the entire Second Amendment out in order to serve a radical anti-gun agenda.
Now gun owners in California are under siege as the governor tries to strip them of their rights and the courts refuse to protect them.
According to Reuters, “A federal appeals court on Saturday cleared the way for a California law that bans the carrying of guns in most public places to take effect at the start of 2024, as the panel put on hold a judge’s ruling declaring the measure unconstitutional.
“The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals suspended a Dec. 20 injunction issued by a judge who concluded the Democratic-led state’s law violated the right of citizens to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.”
One of the senior judges on this panel is Andrew Hurwitz, who is a registered Democrat and a longtime liberal who once served as chief of staff for Democratic Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt.
He was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court by Democrat Gov. Janet Napolitano, and then to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Obama.
It’s clear that his ideology leans hard to the left, and it is no surprise to find out that he hates guns. Now he, along with the fellow judges on his panel, have effectively nullified the Second Amendment in California.
The article continues, “The measure, which is set to take effect on Monday after Newsom signed it into law in September, was enacted after a landmark ruling in June 2022 by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court that expanded gun rights nationwide.”
In other words, the state of California’s response to the Supreme Court ruling, which ruled that U.S. citizens have a right to carry guns in public, was to go to the opposite extreme and ban almost all instances of carrying guns in public.
This shows a total lack of respect for our system of government, in which the Supreme Court exists to protect the rights of the people.
And it shows the radical extremes that politicians in California, as well as their friends in the judiciary, will go to in order to take guns away.