Senate Republicans Rebuke Colleagues for Threatening SCOTUS

By NRAHQ

Opinion

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- On Thursday, all 53 Republican Senators signed onto a letter encouraging the Supreme Court to ignore an amicus curiae brief from five Democrat Senators that threatened the high court with restructuring if it did not rule the way those Senators wished.

The offending amicus brief, penned by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and joined by Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), asked the Supreme Court to dismiss an NRA-supported challenge to New York City’s handgun transportation law. Amicus briefs by members of the legislative branch are not uncommon, but those briefs always treat the Court with the respect it deserves as a coequal branch of government. Threatening the Court if it doesn’t rule their way is certainly a new approach for amici to take in attempting to persuade the Court.

Beyond the empty nature of the threat – five Senators are a long way away from the necessary votes to change the statute governing the Court’s composition – Senator Whitehouse apparently also forgot that he …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand