NRA-ILA Daily Alerts For 8-27-2018

NRA-ILA: Institute for Legislative Action

DAILY ALERT FOR Monday, August 27, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES
Federal judge grants preliminary injunction in 3D-printed gun case external site
A federal judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction to a coalition of states seeking to block a Texas-based company from posting online blueprints for how to make 3D-printed guns.
DAILY CALLER
Potential Gun-Related Cases That Could Reach The Supreme Court external site
Just after Labor Day, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is going to turn to the serious work of confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The timing is crucial. The hearings are expected to last no more than four days. There will likely be a pause between the end of the hearings and when Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will presumably send the confirmation to the full Senate.
REASON
ACLU Sticks Up for the NRA external site
In a brief filed in federal court today, the ACLU argues that New York’s strong-arm efforts to compel banks and insurance companies to ditch the NRA as a customer represent a glaring violation of the First Amendment.
VOLOKH CONSPIRACY
ACLU on the NRA’s Lawsuit Against N.Y. Gov. Cuomo external site
Here’s the ACLU’s brief (filed Friday), which strikes me as quite sound legally (some paragraph breaks added)
MYNORTHWEST
Law is dead in Washington state: I-1639 is inarguably illegal external site
There is no law in Washington state. On Friday, the Seattle Supreme Court — formerly the Washington State Supreme Court –killed it. The so-called justices killed the law because they are left-wing activist, arrogant, lying hacks. They hate guns, they hate gun owners, solely due to those factors they unanimously approved Initiative I-1639. The so-called court openly defied the clear and simple language of Washington state law. The so-called judges killed the law.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
State Supreme Court Clears Way for Washington Gun Measure external site
Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon had said the signature petitions did not clearly identify what would change in the law and the font was too small to be readable. He ordered the secretary of state to stop certification of the measure. But the Supreme Court ruling, written by Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst, said the secretary of state is not required to block a measure based on the readability and formatting of the proposed measure’s text.
TOWNHALL
Washington State’s Gun Control Initiative Will Appear On The November Ballot Despite Questionable Practices external site
“The problem with the petitions is that they failed to underline new law and strike through removed law so that the reader could not know the current law, added law and subtracted law,” Alan Gottlieb, Founder and Executive Director of SAF, previously told Townhall.