SAF FILES SCOTUS AMICUS BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF NRA 1st AMENDMENT SUIT

BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Modification Basis has filed an amicus transient with the U.S. Supreme Court docket in assist of the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation’s lawsuit in opposition to Maria Vullo, former Superintendent of the New York State Division of Monetary Providers, alleging she mis-used the facility of her workplace to hamper their advocacy actions by discouraging monetary establishments from doing enterprise with the group.

SAF is joined on this transient by the John Locke Basis and Independence Institute. They’re represented by attorneys Joseph G.S. Greenlee of McCall, Idaho, David Kopel of Denver, Colo., and Jonathan D. Guze of Raleigh, N.C. The case is named NRA v. Vullo.

“In our transient,” mentioned SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “we level to Vullo’s abuse of governmental authority to punish the NRA for its lawful advocacy efforts. SAF has skilled related abuse by authorities companies, which have tried to make use of their energy to dam our free speech, and it’s unconscionable. That is why we felt it essential to file this amicus, and we’re delighted to be joined by the John Locke Basis and Independence Institute.”

“What occurred in New York may be very very like efforts by southern states to suppress the actions of the NAACP 60 years in the past,” said SAF Govt Director Adam Kraut. “In each cases, state authorities officers used the facility of their companies to stifle and penalize rights secured below the First and Second Amendments. On this case, New York tried to trigger monetary destroy to the NRA as a result of Vullo, and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, harbor appreciable animus towards NRA and its members.”

“NRA was penalized for doing the job it was created to do,” Gottlieb added. “This case is about correcting and stopping this type of abuse now, and anytime sooner or later. When a authorities is ready to weaponize its companies, and its authority, to stifle views and actions with which it disagrees, one thing have to be completed to cease it and set an instance that daunts others from attempting the identical factor.”