U.S. Judge Sue E. Myerscough overrules Supreme Court

In an article published in The Daily Caller by AWR Hawkins, he writes about some very troubling issues associated with president Obama’s selection and appointment of U.S. judges.  The decision recently delivered by U.S. Judge Sue Myerscough, in a challenge which the Second Amendment Foundation filed against Illinois’s ongoing prohibition against carrying concealed weapons in that state is just unbelievable. 

Here is the oath that U.S. Judge Myerscough took:  "I, Sue E. Myerscough, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."

Nowhere in that oath does it say, “I will override the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.”  Yet in her decision she stated the following, “[Although the] plaintiffs argue that the Second Amendment protects a general right to carry guns that include a right to carry operable guns in public … [the] Supreme Court has not recognized a right to bear firearms outside the home.”  The Supreme Court heard arguments for and against Chicago’s handgun ban in McDonald v. Chicago — a case which grew out of Chicago citizen Otis McDonald’s desire to be able to defend his life and property — the court ruled against the handgun ban, citing the fact that “self-defense is a basic right.” The court also pointed out that “self defense is ‘the central component’ of the Second Amendment right.

I agree with Mr. Hawkins when he says, “This is troubling for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Myerscough has completely disregarded the fact that our natural, God-given rights are not subject to court approval for viability. Rather, our Founding Fathers used the Bill of Rights to build a hedge of protection around those rights with which we were endowed by our Creator. And one of those rights was the right to self-defense, and therefore the right not only to keep but also to bear the arms necessary to defend ourselves.”

We need to be politically active and fight to keep liberal judges like this one away from any decision making process that can affect our God given rights.