In the days since a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, liberal politicians and pundits have tried to argue that without the state\u2019s \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 law providing a defense, Zimmerman would be guilty.<\/p>\n
The problem with this argument is that Zimmerman\u2019s lawyers never invoked \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 as a defense in the trial. \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 was irrelevant to the verdict.<\/p>\n
But that hasn\u2019t stopped liberals like Attorney General Eric Holder from using the mere existence of \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 laws as a pretext for unmerited lawsuits<\/a>. In a speech<\/a> to the NAACP this week, Holder encouraged members of the NAACP to agitate for the repeal of such laws in the 30+ states where they exist.<\/p>\n Now, Congress is upping the ante.<\/p>\n Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) is promising to hold congressional hearings about the effects of \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 laws<\/a>, including such topics as \u201cwhen racial profiling and \u2018stand your ground\u2019 laws mix,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n Amid all the racially charged theater, Durbin also announced what has to be his real motive behind the hearings \u2013 scrutinizing the roles that the NRA and ALEC played in promoting \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 legislation.<\/p>\n Durbin has no right to subject either organization to an investigative fishing expedition designed to criticize private groups for exercising their First Amendment rights. If Durbin follows through with his threat, someone in the Senate GOP needs to throw some brush-back pitches in Dick\u2019s direction. After the politician-inspired IRS scandal<\/a>, it\u2019s time for liberals to be held accountable for their wild-eyed accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the days since a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, liberal politicians and pundits have tried to argue that without the state\u2019s \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 law providing a defense, Zimmerman would be guilty. The problem with this argument is that Zimmerman\u2019s lawyers never invoked \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4062,84,498,4203,735,1997,2643,38,3474,4199],"class_list":["post-18408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alec","tag-congress","tag-eric-holder","tag-flordia","tag-irs","tag-naacp","tag-nra","tag-senate","tag-trayvon-martin","tag-zimmerman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18412,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions\/18412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}