Weekly Newsletters

August 24, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Why we voted Last week the Senate confirmed the 25th and 26th appellate court judges during President Donald Trump’s tenure, A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. and Julius Ness Richardson, both for the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. The Senate has been approving appellate court judges at a rapid pace, already setting […]

August 17, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Parkland Update Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of Pinellas County, head of Florida’s state-appointed commission investigating the Parkland school massacre, said last week, “If he had somebody in there with a gun, they could have mitigated this. There were opportunities for staff to have intervened if they had been armed.” But nobody was armed and

August 10, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation NRA v. Cuomo, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York, alleges that NY Gov. Cuomo and NY Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) violated the First Amendment rights of the NRA by sending “guidance” letters to and even entering into consent orders with banks and insurance companies

August 3, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman MS AG Opinion Mississippi’s Attorney General says gun ban signs in some courthouses are illegal. Well, duh. We note that Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson, while saying that he has “no intentions of violating any laws of our State,” has issued his own “opinion” and he and the county are in fact violating

July 27, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Litigation A 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals panel decided 2-1 this week that the Second Amendment extends beyond the home, ruling that the State of Hawaii infringed on the rights of a plaintiff when it twice denied him a permit to carry a gun outside. The case is in Young v. State

July 20, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Courts Update on Kavanaugh nomination Senate vote count. Kavanaugh has made clear in judicial writings that banning a certain “class of arms” is like banning a particular “category of speech.” Trump nominee Mark Bennett was confirmed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, with 23 RINOs voting for him. Civil Rights Story Civil

July 13, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman SCOTUS The anti-gun Left is going berserk complete with wailing, gnashing of teeth and outright lies after President Donald Trump nominated constitutionalist Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. (Actually some leftists, including at least three US Senators, railed against the nominee even before he was named.) Early analysis (using a liberal-conservative scale) indicates

July 6, 2018 Newsletter by Jeff Pittman Courts We have a report that US Senate Republicans are “vigorously pushing” for anti-gun leftist Mark Bennett, who has been nominated to the far left Ninth Circuit bench. Bennett opposed the Heller Court’s finding that the Second Amendment is an individual right and is reportedly a “leftist across the board.” The Senate will