WASHINGTON – The National Rifle Association is warning senators that it will consider their votes on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as part of its influential annual ratings of lawmakers.
The NRA says President Barack Obama's first high court nominee has a hostile view of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. It announced last week that it was opposing her nomination, although her confirmation in early August is virtually guaranteed.
Its promise Thursday to score the upcoming vote amounts to a threat to Republicans and conservative Democrats whose constituents are strong gun rights advocates. It comes one day after the gun lobby suffered a major loss in the Senate with defeat of a concealed weapon measure.
OK, maybe its time the American People issue a threat. Voters who live in the States represented by those senators who vote AGAINST Sotomayor for no apparent reason than to cave in to groups like the NRA should issue their own threat. "We will not vote for you again if, you vote against Sotomayor and give no viable, reasonable explanation."
And I mean an explanation that makes sense, not some blabbering comment about how you didn't like her attitude, or thought she would be too Latina. If you want to vote against her, show us some legal standings, some legal decisions, that you disagreed with and why. In other words Senators (and I am speaking to the mostly men out there on the panel) show us your balls.
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