Constitutional Law

If you're in Washington State

I wouldn't know anything of Washington judges, but I rec'd an email from Alan Gottlieb endorsing Richard Sanders. His webpage is here. Alan notes that Sanders voted, prior to Chicago, in favor of the 2A being incorporated. Alan writes:

"Sanders wrote, "Gun ownership is an inexorable birthright of American tradition. Americans who participated in the Revolution of 1776 and adopted the Bill of Rights held the individual right to have and use arms against tyranny to be fundamental." State v. Sieyes, 225 P.3d 995 (2010)

Our gun rights are fundamental! I couldn't have said it better myself!

Of course this isn't the only opinion from Justice Sanders on gun rights. In a closely divided court he fiercely dissented from a terrible majority opinion in Pacific NW Shooting Park v. Sequim 158 Wn.2d 342 (2006) that allowed the sheriff to shut down a gun show in clear violation of state statute.

And in State v. Carter 151 Wn.2d 118 (2004) he demanded in dissent that police have a search warrant before disassembling a weapon. And there are many, many more opinions from this exceptional jurist protecting our gun rights."

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on July 30, 2010 (boomark / email).