Progressive Governments’ Economic War on the NRA Fails in Court

[Elderberry]

National Review by  Walter Olson 1/8/2020

In California and New York, efforts to target the gun-rights group’s business relationships are failing on First Amendment grounds.

Some politicos just can’t stop grandstanding, even if it means their court case goes down in flames. Consider what just happened in a federal court in Los Angeles.

Not long ago, progressive state and local officials nationwide were vowing to take down the hated National Rifle Association by targeting its pocketbook. When city authorities in Los Angeles and San Francisco gave that idea a try, they were following the lead of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who had unleashed New York financial regulators to go after the gun-rights organization’s access to insurance and banking services.

Now all three are facing a reckoning in court, based not on the Second Amendment but on the First. Without needing to even consider the issue of gun rights, federal courts are recognizing that boycotts enforced by government power can menace free speech and free association.

The amusing part is that the public officials themselves are helping to provide the basis for these rulings by tweeting and speechifying about how much damage they intend to do the NRA.

More: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/progressive-governments-economic-war-againts-nra-fails-in-court/

[txradioguy]

The left really is it's own worst enemy when they are forced to step outside their own little echo chambers to defend their unconstitutional positions and tactics.

[EdinVA]

Finally a court doing it's job... give that judge a raise...

[Smokin Joe]

Finally a court doing it's job... give that judge a raise...

For doing their job they should keep it. Fire the rest.