Redstate:
"Internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members are highlighting just how far the National Rifle Association has fallen...
these internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members show that the National Rifle Association’s management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA’s board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment issues during the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings.
That’s right: the foremost gun rights lobby in the nation is prohibiting its board from testifying in the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings about the second amendment.
The NRA did issue a statement on Friday after the internal Senate email began leaking out informing people of the gag order. The statement noted Kagan’s problematic record on guns, but that’s just smoke and mirrors. Don’t believe them when they say they are working with Senators to investigate her record. If they were really working with Senators, they would have accepted an invitation to testify on the Kagan nomination when they were invited. The gag order on board members is not limited to providing testimony, but it prohibits board members from coming out against Kagan in their individual capacity." A columnist on another website confirmed Redstate's claim. Redstate
Wondeful.
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UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE. The woman has never even been a judge. Another sign of the impending apocalypse. (borrowed the impending apocalypse from a FB status)
J. Rehnquist had never been a judge...
Neither had Harriet Myers
Thank you very much. I stand corrected. I still don't like her.
a plumber can be placed on the SCOTUS. See: Article III.
Many US Supreme Court Justices have not been lawyers.
This is an incoherent subject.
But let's all agree that this president hasn't done anything that would inspire a feeling of competence.
Yes , pretty strained point . This sounds like some sort of obscure sarcasm that somebody like Rachel Maddow might get all uncontrolled quivering over.
Kingfish, you ought to be a little more coherent.
Everyone here is missing the startling main point - why is the NRA muzzling its board members under these circumstances? What is going on here?
It was scary enough yesterday to realize 4 members of the SCOTUS are willing to ignore the plain language of the Second Amendment - which other amendments may get tossed out or ignored?
from the politicsdaily link above - it seems to be a personality problem - "Regardless, it appears obvious a major schism has developed between the NRA-ILA executive director and several members of the board of directors. As one board member told me, "The bottom line is Chris (Cox) wants to have all decisions go through him and have no board involvement in decisions about or communications with Congress. He was the problem with the DISCLOSE Act. He's the issue re the SCOTUS nominees.""
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