Progressive Governments’ War on the NRA Fails in Court
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:56 amhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/progressive-governments-economic-war-againts-nra-fails-in-court/
Progressive Governments’ Economic War on the NRA Fails in Court
Progressive Governments’ Economic War on the NRA Fails in Court
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.