If Obama Were Appointing Justices To The Supreme Court

Remember how I have talked about firearms policy, both in court and in the legislature, where you have to be thinking five to 10 moves in advance? Just like chess? Well consider this:

If Barack Obama were president, and was making appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court, who would those people be? Some have suggested Hillary Clinton may get a nod, though her confirmation in the Senate would be an uphill battle. Even with her political party in control.

But use the chess scenario. Play several moves ahead, and consider this. The scarier thought is of the "type" of people Obama would nominate. People who would want to roll back the DC Heller decision before a similar case out of Chicago ever got to the High Court.

Make sense? Syndicated columnist Robert Novak has been thinking about it also.

"The issue will return when Chicago's handgun ban, modeled after the Washington law, is challenged in the courts. As a Chicago lawyer, Obama can hardly plead ignorance as he did concerning the D.C. ban. But with the case wending its way back to the Supreme Court for the next year, Obama will not have to answer the question before November. "While Scalia's opinion for now saves Obama from defending a court that had emasculated gun rights, one inconvenient truth confronts the candidate. He has made clear that as president he would nominate Supreme Court justices who agree with the minority of four that the Second Amendment is meaningless."

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