MSNBC’s Ari Melber Lies About Supremes’ 2008 Heller 2nd Amendment Ruling
28th February 2018
Melber claimed that “2A” has never protected AR-15s or so-called assault weapons, and that politicians deferring to it are cowards for pretending it does. Anyone genuinely understanding Heller knows otherwise.
Melber dishonestly used the 1991 words of former Chief Justice Warren Burger, who said on PBS that “(2A) has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud … that I have ever seen in my lifetime,” as his lead-in.
Melber didn’t note that Chief Justice Burger had retired five years earlier, that he never considered a case directly relating to the Second Amendment’s substance on the bench, or that Burger, in that interview, stated a clearly fringe view that “If I were writing the Bill of Rights now, there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment.”