Less Pay to Play  by Tom Reynolds

SCOPE has often written about big government taking, at both the state and federal level, the position about passing unconstitutional laws: If you don’t like it, sue me - if you can afford thousands of dollars to spend on legal costs.

To counter this, in a boost for 2nd Amendment defenders, Trump’s DOJ’ started a 2nd Amendment Section of the Civil Rights Division; a gun rights-focused section.  One of its focuses will be fighting a variety of state and local courts on gun issues, particularly difficulties around concealed carry permits.  The federal government can now finance law suits that private citizens previously had to finance.*

The idea of, if you don’t like it, sue me, just took another body blow.

Private citizen Donald Trump had filed litigation against the federal government, seeking compensation for various wrongs (allegedly) committed against him, mostly during the Biden presidency.  There is an announced tentative settlement in the case.  Trump is reportedly dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the I R S in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate those who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration.  The settlement is expected to be agreed upon soon and the final terms will not be set until they are officially announced. 

Perhaps FFL’s and other 2A people that were victimized by Biden (or whoever was in charge in the White House) can take advantage of this to stay in the fight for 2A rights.          

As you might expect about all things Donald Trump, the New York Times is having a “cow.”  They call it an “unusual plan” and “a political slush fund.”

Apparently, the NY Times is in such dire financial straits that its editors cannot afford a dictionary.  Unusual is defined as: uncommon; extraordinary; abnormal; rare.

One example, of many, the NY Times missed.  After the 2008/09 recession, the Obama administration brought a series of cases blaming the recession on big banks. All the banks settled, many for billions of dollars.  In one settlement, the Bank of America allocated $7 billion to slush funds doled out to delinquent debtors and to left-wing advocacy groups friendly to the administration and Democrat Party.

Sounds like this sort of thing is common, ordinary, usual and not rare.  As the Manhattan Contrarian wrote: The only thing unusual is the use of this strategy by a Republican President. It took him a while, but it looks like he finally figured out that two can play this game.

“Two can play this game” or as is often said, whatever the Democrat Party is accusing you of doing, they are already doing themselves.

The NY Times could be classified as a Democrat propaganda arm.  (I love using “arm” in connection with the NY Times; does the 2nd Amendment cover their work for the Democrat Party?)

It’s too bad that tax dollars have to be used to defend taxpayers against the government.  But this case is not - as in the Obama example – being used to push a government policy but, instead, to defend against a government policy. 

* S.C.O.P.E. Shooters Committee On Political Education - DOJ’s 2nd Amendment Section