Newsom Blasts Judge As 'Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Of Gun Lobby' After Weapons Ruling

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In a no-holds-barred rebuke of the federal judge who recently overturned California’s assault weapons ban, Gov. Gavin Newsom lambasted U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez on Thursday as a “wholly-owned subsidiary of the gun lobby and the National Rifle Association.”

“We need to call this federal judge out,” the Democratic governor told reporters as he announced the state’s decision to appeal Benitez’s ruling. “He will continue to do damage. Mark my words.”

Benitez struck down California’s three-decade-old ban on certain types of semi-automatic rifles, including the popular AR-15, last week. Gun control advocates skewered Benitez for the decision, while Newsom called it “a direct threat to public safety and the lives of innocent Californians, period.”

Link to tweet

In his decision, Benitez likened the AR-15 to a “Swiss Army knife” and described it as a “perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/judge-roger-benitez-gavin-newsom-assault-weapons-ban-003640821.html

[bahboo]

1. yep...this decision cannot stand....

especially in our fair state.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Who appointed this judge?

[2naSalit]

3. That was my first question. ...nt

[YMB]

4. Any evidence of that?

Not saying hes wrong, but you dont have to give a shit about the NRA to essentially think all guns should be legal and unregulated. Iv known a lot of people growing up in rural Michigan like that. When you also grow up in a largely opposite state and surroundings to what you believe in you also tend to push back harder.

[peppertree]

5. He's a Bush-appointed RW Cuban

They (the Bush-appointed ones) were normally Pinochet-style fascists - as well having a "proclivity for illicit enrichment," as the CIA once put it.