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The US Justice Department’s top civil rights official said the division is considering making gun rights a formal priority, in a significant shift from its traditional focus.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview with Bloomberg that the department is reviewing whether certain state and local gun control measures infringe on citizens’ rights.“The Second Amendment is one of the constitutional rights we are committed to defending,” Dhillon said. “We’re adding that to our analysis where states are violating constitutional rights.”
She declined to name specific jurisdictions under review but added, “I think it’s all pretty obvious where people’s rights are being violated.”
Myles Miller
May 9, 2025
Trump’s DOJ Weighs Gun Rights as a Focus for Civil Rights Division
I won’t believe it until I see some politicians being hauled away to prison in orange jumpsuits. We less talk and a lot more action.
Now, if her boss can be brought on board, we might have something, but Ms. Bondi hasn’t demonstrated much positive interest in this particular topic.
Ever.
It is pretty clear that the courts will do nothing until 2A rights have been denied for years, if then. So it really is on the executive branch. Nothing like prosecutions to get the attention of the nullifiers.
Well, they have been denied for a century and a half, so “for years” was triggered a long time ago.
“I think it’s all pretty obvious where people’s rights are being violated.”
As Pkoning says. For about a 150 years now.
But one of the biggest problems for the executive branch is what courts are you going to prosecute in? Their all about as corrupt as it gets.
And just like Trump in New York, the juries aren’t much better. He’s going to have to secure all that or arrests will mean nothing.
Why go after Nancy Pelosi when judge Boasberg is going to fine her 2 dollars and time served?
And a spineless republican congress wouldn’t even vote her out even if you could get a DC jury to convict her.
I want to see jumpsuits also. But the system is full of communist, and they don’t care about law.
They take care of their own. And they don’t care what you think about it.
These are the days of “naked power”. It will have to be fought the same way or fail.
Why go after Nancy Pelosi when judge Boasberg is going to fine her 2 dollars and time served?
Because 18 U.S.C. 241 and 242 carry, in addition to the jail time and monetary fines that a judge can reduce to a pittance, a disqualification from holding office under the United States or any subsidiary to it.
And a judge cannot remove that disability alone.
Thus, the “spineless republican congress” doesn’t have to vote her out. Conviction means automatic disability to remain in office or seek any other office.
Washington State Surpreme Court just upheld a ban on mags over 10 rounds. They’ve repeatedly denied that gun restricting laws violate not only the 2A, but also the Washington State constitution, which is even MORE protective of individual gun rights, at least to any normal, non-leftist who reads it.
Perhaps Bondi and her crew should start here?
Any state on the west coast of the lower 48 works for me. That way, I would go watch their trials.
It’s interesting to see the DOJ potentially shifting its focus to gun rights, but you’re right—it’s one thing to talk about constitutional rights, and another to actually hold violators accountable. We need to see real enforcement and consequences.
I’m certainly not holding my breath…
Beat me to it.
I was about to say, wake me when the federal DoJ starts filing amicus curiae briefs in favor of gun owners and dealers, in both criminal cases and Constitutional challenges to State-level gun laws.
I’ll believe they support 2A rights when they actively join the fight to overturn infringing laws.