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ACLU joins NRA in battle with State of New York.
What to Know: The NRA – and TPPF – are getting a very unlikely ally in a fight in New York state.
“The National Rifle Association is currently fighting a legal battle to resist efforts by the New York Attorney General to punish any corporation or financial institution that does business with the NRA – and it’s getting help from a very unlikely place. The ACLU,” the Daily Wire reports. “The state of New York is looking to repeat the Obama Administration’s disastrous, and likely unconstitutional efforts in Operation Choke Point, a Department of Justice program that levied similar sanctions on institutions that did business with groups the Obama Administration considered ‘unsavory,’ like gun manufacturers, fireworks vendors, home-based charities, payday lenders, pornography producers, and, according to Forbes, any ‘legal businesses that the Obama administration deem[ed] to be politically incorrect.’”
The TPPF Take: We side with the Constitution on this one.
“The government may not bully its citizens into not doing business with organizations with whom it disagrees politically,” says TPPF’s Rob Henneke. “That’s viewpoint discrimination, unacceptable under the First Amendment.”
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