BATFE Chief Counsel Fired; Replaced With Attorney Who Respects 2A
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BATFE Chief Counsel Pamela Hicks was fired yesterday. Hicks oversaw and endorsed the enforcement of every infringement on the 2nd Amendment committed by the Biden Administration since taking the position in 2021.
She will be replaced by Rob Leider whose appointment is a sharp change of course from that of Pamela Hicks. Hicks's views on guns were in line with groups like Everytown and Brady. Mr. Leider takes a more liberty-based
approach to guns.
Mr. Leider was an assistant professor at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School, where he taught a class on the 2nd Amendment. Before becoming a professor, he worked for law firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer,
LLP. He also clerked for Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
Mr. Leider has penned articles that advocate the stripping of qualified immunity from those state officers who resist the Supreme Court's Bruen
ruling. If qualified immunity was removed from these state officers, it could open people like New York State Governor Kathy Hochul to legal action. Many states and municipalities have passed laws and enacted policies inconsistent with Bruen since SCOTUS ruled on the case.
"In former may-issue states, gun owners still face substantial
legal risks when exercising their rights, but the legal risk may
not only be on private citizens. Despite strengthening qualified
immunity in recent years, the Supreme Court has not shielded
government agents who willfully seek to violate the Constitution.
New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and California may find that,
in bringing down the heavy hand of the State against individuals
who exercise their 2nd Amendment rights, their own police
officers and politicians will get hit by the blow."
Now that's what I like to hear.
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