Man this is good news for the gunners when the VPC is whining foul.  Now that the shoe is on the foot, the antis are getting a some of their own medicine rammed down their collective throat.  What a good feeling!
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VPC: No Recess for Ashcroft Hypocrisy
U.S. Newswire
9 Aug 14:30
VPC: No Recess For Ashcroft Hypocrisy - DOJ Continues To Undermine
Its Own Case In Emerson

To: National Desk

Contact: Naomi Seligman of the Violence Policy
Center, 202-822-8200, ext. 105
Email: [email protected]
Web site: www.vpc.org and www.ashcroftgunwatch.org

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Violence Policy Center
(VPC) learned this week that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
is opposing an effort by law professors David Yassky and Carl T.
Bogus-who are friends-of-the-court in U.S. v. Emerson-to have the
recent VPC study, Shot Full of Holes: Deconstructing John
Ashcroft's Second Amendment, considered by the Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals in the Emerson case. The VPC study analyzes Attorney
General John Ashcroft's May letter to the National Rifle
Association in which he reverses longstanding Justice Department
policy and argues that the Second Amendment guarantees an
individual right to keep and bear arms. The request by the
attorneys came after appellee Timothy Joe Emerson submitted the
Ashcroft letter to the court for consideration. Paradoxically, the
Department has not voiced opposition to Emerson's introduction of
the Ashcroft letter.
The DOJ calls the VPC study an "unauthorized supplemental
brief." Yet the VPC analysis of the Ashcroft letter introduced by
the two attorneys is directly related to Emerson's submission of
the letter and would actually support the Department of
Justice's-as opposed to Ashcroft's-position in the case.
VPC Litigation Director and Legislative Counsel Mathew Nosanchuk
states, "The Violence Policy Center has said repeatedly that when
it comes to the Ashcroft Justice Department and our nation's gun
laws, watch what they do, not what they say. And once again, the
Ashcroft Justice Department is saying one thing and doing another.
This action clearly benefits domestic abusers like Timothy Joe
Emerson and others intent on dismantling our nation's gun laws."
Last week the VPC filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request with the U.S. Department of Justice for all documents
related to the Department's shift in its position on the Second
Amendment. The VPC FOIA request seeks to shed light on how this
dramatic shift-in which DOJ now states that the Second Amendment
guarantees an individual right to bear arms-came about.
---
The Violence Policy Center is a national non-profit educational
organization working to stop gun death and injury in America. Shot
Full of Holes: Deconstructing John Ashcroft's Second Amendment and
its executive summary are available at the VPC's websites
www.vpc.org and www.ashcroftgunwatch.org.

KEYWORDS:
GUNS/FIREARMS, POLICY, POLITICAL
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08/09 14:30
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Ah, the justice of it all. Dems turned to all sorts of tricks to beat ashcroft for senate (fraud, illegally extended voting hours) and he instead wound up being attorney general. So instead of being 1 of 100 making laws, he's the ONE enforcing laws.

There is a God, and he has a great sense of irony.

You mean a fair and impartial DOJ like Reno's?[>:/] VPC is grasping for straws, making continuous public appeals to influence outcomes. They can't stand on their own two feet. Repeat after me ....Weeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaak!!!!!!!

Totally unrealistic. The DOJ has been heavily politicized for decades and it will continue to be so. Which is why it is crucial to keep Democrats out of the White House.

No Flame. Its all politics, all the time.
Now the UN has come out from under their rock.

All politics.
All the time.
And denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

Well, ideally ALL the executive departments should be free of politics, but humans being what they are, it has never been that way.  Even Washington's presidency had its own politics involved.