PRESIDENT OBAMA NAMES SUPREME COURT NOMINEE . . . President Obama has nominated federal appellate court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice David Souter. Judge Sotomayor sits on the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was part of a three-judge panel that ruled earlier this year in the case Maloney v. Cuomo that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. The Maloney case may be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly in light of last month's San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit's decision in Nor**** v. King that reached the opposite conclusion and applied the Second Amendment to the states. "There is a very real possibility that the Supreme Court could revisit the Second Amendment in its next term," said NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane. Justice Souter was in the minority in the Heller decision and would have ruled against finding an individual right to keep and bear arms in the Second Amendment. NSSF is researching Judge Sotomayor's judicial record in other firearms-related cases to see how she might rule as a justice of the Supreme Court.
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