BREAKING: President Obama Nominates Merrick Garland to Supreme Court

By Dan Zimmerman

In a move calculated to make it difficult for GOP members of the Senate to keep their promise to block any election year Supreme Court nominee, President Obama has today nominated Merrick Garland, chief justice for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Garland’s known — at least my many in the media — as a moderate with a long paper trail, particularly on issues such as criminal justice and the federal government’s powers to fight terrorism. It will probably shock you to learn, however, that on gun rights, he’s not quite as middle-of-the-road . . .

Back in 2008, Dave Kopel wrote a prescient post on the potential effect on gun rights an Obama presidency would have and wrote the following regarding Garland:

Merrick Garland is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He could be counted on not only to oppose Second Amendment rights in general, but even to nullify explicit congressional statutes that protect those rights.

In 2007, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit ruled against the D.C. handgun ban in the case of Parker v. District of Columbia (which was the name of …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns