Bill of Rights does not apply to you

According to Sonya Sotomayor, Oboma's nominee to sit on the highest court in the land, you and I don't have rights under the Bill of Rights, at least if we are among the few who live in the fifty states, that is.

Sotomayor's court, arguing against the right of individuals to own a gun, stated that "It is settled law, however, that the Second Amendment applies only to limitations the federal government seeks to impose on this right,” said the opinion. Quoting Presser, the court said, “it is a limitation only upon the power of Congress and the national government, and not upon that of the state.” (read entire article from CNS here)

Following the logic of that court's decision, and by the way, Sotomayor's as well, none of those rights guaranteed to us in the Bill of Rights could be enforced by the federal government if an individual state declared to the contrary. If you live in California, for example, and they told you that you did not have the right to attend the church of your choice, I guess by Sotomayor's rule, you could not. If you live in Massachusetts, and you wanted to speak out against the liberal government of that state, and they said you can't.....you can't, according to Sotomayor and her court.

Think you have the right not to be searched without a warrant? Guess again if Sotomayor and her court had their way, and your state agreed. It's bad enough that we have all practically lost the freedom of the press, with most major news sources in the pocket of the Democrat party. By the way, isn't it the troublesone tenth amendment that says that "Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectivly, or to the people."? Accordingly, the states only have the power to reject legislation or mandates that are not granted to the Fed as powers by the Constitution. The Bill of Rights is not among that list.

The Constitution is the law of the land, as written, not interpreted by some black robed jurists; especially when we cannot get two bodies of them to agree with one another. Sotomayor's Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is in disagreement with the liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, which stated that is is the individual's right to own and bear arms, not just the military or law enforcement.

Sotomayor is a dangerous threat to freedom in America, and although it can be argued that she is only replacing another liberal judge, she is in fact, much more liberal than David Souter, and will remain a judge long after some of the more conservative judges have been replaced with more liberals.

Conservatives in the senate, if there are any left, should filibuster her nomination and refuse to approve her. There are still a few judges out there that understand the meaning of the Constitution. The Senate should make Obama find one of them.