When the Bill of Rights negates your court case?
If you’re the self-righteous City of New York, you ask that the court to outright ignore the Bill of Rights
Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.
“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,†Lawrence Keane, the general counsel of a firearms industry association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said.
The trial, set to begin May 27, involves a Georgia gun shop, Adventure Outdoors, which the city alleges is responsible for a disproportionate number of the firearms recovered from criminals in New York City. The gun store’s owner, Jay Wallace, says his store abides by Georgia and federal regulations and takes steps to avoid selling firearms to gun traffickers. Mr. Wallace’s store is one of 27 out-of-state gun shops sued by New York City, and the first to go to trial.City lawyers, in a motion filed Tuesday, asked the judge, Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, to preclude the store’s lawyers from arguing that the suit infringed on any Second Amendment rights belonging to the gun store or its customers. In the motion, the lawyer for the city, Eric Proshansky, is also seeking a ban on “any references†to the amendment.
I guess that if you don’t believe in a civil right, this would be your natural course of action.
I await Bloomberg’s declaration that the 13th Amendment does not apply to the City of New York and begin he confiscation of 100% of wages to fund his future idiocy. However, this will have to wait until his proclamation that NYC gets one million billion electors and any election for the nation’s Executive Officer that does not go his way is illegitimate.
Found @ Say Anything
You know, he may as well just come out and say, “I know what I am doing is unconstitutional, and, frankly, I don’t give a shit if you care or not. I am going to keep doing it, and there is not much you can do to stop me.”
I might, just might, have the tiniest iota of respect for him at that point. But this is just ludicrous as it is…