{"id":3224,"date":"2012-06-12T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/06\/12\/obama-nominates-anti-gun-halligan-for\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:44","slug":"obama-nominates-anti-gun-halligan-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"Obama Nominates Anti-Gun Halligan For Court Of Appeals&#8230;.Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15649,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/the-press-office\\\/2012\\\/06\\\/11\\\/president-obama-nominates-two-serve-us-court-appeals-district-columbia-c&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/the-press-office\\\/2012\\\/06\\\/11\\\/president-obama-nominates-two-serve-us-court-appeals-district-columbia-c&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12748,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/battle-on-second-front-has-opened.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251018075853\\\/https:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/battle-on-second-front-has-opened.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 13:49:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 13:49:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14107,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/12\\\/only-caitlin-halligan-could-unite-nra.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Not taking no for an answer on Caitlin Halligan&#8217;s nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, President Obama has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/06\/11\/president-obama-nominates-two-serve-us-court-appeals-district-columbia-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> renominated her today<\/a> along with Srikanth Srinivasan, principal deputy solicitor general of the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cCaitlin Halligan and Sri Srinivasan are dedicated public servants who will bring their tremendous experience, intellect, and integrity to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,\u201d President Obama said.  \u201cThis important court is often called the Nation\u2019s second-highest court, and it stands more than a quarter vacant.  I remain deeply disappointed that a minority of the United States Senate blocked Ms. Halligan\u2019s nomination last year and urge her reconsideration, especially given her broad bipartisan support from the legal and law enforcement communities.  Mr. Srinivasan will be a trailblazer and, like Ms. Halligan, will serve the court with distinction and excellence.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Halligan now serves as General Counsel for the New York County District Attorney\u2019s Office. In other words, she now advises District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. as he continues <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/battle-on-second-front-has-opened.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his assault on knife rights<\/a> in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Halligan has a long history in serving her masters in their assault on the Second Amendment and arms. In addition to her work for DA Cyrus Vance, Jr., she was the Solicitor General under then-NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer when he sought to bankrupt firearms manufacturers. She was also a signatory to an amicus brief that attacked the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act(PLCAA)arguing that it was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>All the major gun rights organizations opposed her nomination last year. As I <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/only-caitlin-halligan-could-unite-nra.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facetiously commented<\/a> last December, only she could unite the NRA and GOA. That President Obama would nominate her again so soon after she was turned down is a slap in the face to gun owners. If this doesn&#8217;t express his true feelings towards us &#8220;bitter clingers&#8221;, nothing does.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not taking no for an answer on Caitlin Halligan&#8217;s nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the DC&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,3254,359],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-caitlin-halligan","tag-dc-circuit-court-of-appeals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}