With Virginia’s blatantly unconstitutional firearm bans in limbo and a Supreme Court ruling on such atrocities on the horizon, it is a good time for the adults in the room to reassess the governor’s and attorney general’s controversial anti-Second Amendment agenda.
That is, of course, assuming that there are actual adults in the room.
Enter AG Jay Jones, whose only apparent goal for his office is to grind the right to keep and bear arms down into a meaningless relic of a bygone era. Virginia’s chief legal officer topped his own track record of foolishness with a recent motion to dismiss a powerful lawsuit against Richmond’s gun grabbers.
To deny the Supremacy Clause’s power reeks of disregard for the law
First, Jones claimed that the plaintiffs in Crump v. Katz, including Virginia resident and 2A advocate John Crump, lacked standing to sue over the “assault weapon” ban. Then he dove straight into the absurd.
According to the AG, the Virginia Constitution supersedes the U.S. Constitution and its Second Amendment protections. Really?
An educated person who never spent a minute in law school knows that the Supremacy Clause emphatically negates this preposterous claim. Addressing glaring weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation, Article VI, Clause II of the Constitution could not be clearer.
Jones could not be this ignorant of the US Constitution
The founding document and federal law “shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
For an elected official with Jones’ authority, failure to recognize the centuries-old, established meaning of the Supremacy Clause shows a shocking disregard for the law of the land.
Jones and his cronies are currently surrounded by the rubble of their prized police state, and the July motion reeks of desperation. No state constitution can stand against the U.S. Constitution and federal law, and it is unthinkable that Virginia’s AG claimed otherwise.
Whatever his qualifications, Jones unequivocally demonstrated an utter disregard for the rule of law. If a Second Amendment supporting official made a similar claim, they would be laughed right out of Richmond.
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