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Hatch: Sotomayor’s Rulings on Second Amendment Cases Troubling
WASHINGTON – Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today raised concerns about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial record with respect to cases involving Americans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Hatch noted that in Sotomayor’s years as a federal appeals court judge, she has taken a “somewhat dim view of the Second Amendment.”
“It appears that on … issues related to the right to keep and bear arms – whether it is a afundamental right, an individual right, and a right limiting the states – Judge Sotomayor consistently opted for the most limiting, the most minimizing view of the Second Amendment,” Hatch said during his remarks on the Senate floor.
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