President Joe Biden Boasts About Circumventing Congress Multiple Times To Pass Gun Control
Jose Nino
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Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, kicked off an investigation on the morning of March 28, 2024 into the Biden regime’s recently promoted National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center.
“Extreme risk protection order” is a euphemism for a red flag gun confiscation law.
Biden made this announcement in tandem with Vice President Kamala Harris in addition to an announcement of $750 million in funds that will be doled out to it by the Biden regime.
Attorney General Merrick Garland was ecstatic about the launch of the red flag center, declaring:
The launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others. The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence.
However, on March 28, 2024, Congressman Jordan sent out a letter addressed to Mrs. Cassandra Crifasi and Mr. Joshua Horwitz, the co-founders of the John Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
The letter started with the following points:
The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) grant programs and operations, including the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). We are aware that BJA has awarded you a taxpayer funded grant to operate the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center, which will “support the effective implementation of state red flag laws.”1 The Committee has serious concerns about the infringement on due process and Second Amendment rights that red flag or extreme risk protection order laws enable.
Jordan then used to the letter to underscore the litany of problems with red flag laws, which includes the threat such laws pose to due process rights:
These laws are ripe for abuse as the list of individuals who can petition a court for an extreme risk protection is expansive. For example, in Hawaii, a former roommate or even a disgruntled employee can file for an extreme risk protection order. In California, a former roommate, employee, a former girlfriend or even someone in a “dating relationship” with an individual is able to file a petition for an extreme risk protection order.
Additionally, many jurisdictions merely require that a showing of probable cause be met in order to seize an individual’s firearms and ammunition and to prohibit that individual from purchasing or possessing any firearms or ammunition. Probable cause is an astonishingly low standard to deprive an individual of his or her constitutional rights without an allegation of criminal activity or an opportunity for the individual to be heard. Currently, fifteen states have laws that will grant an extreme risk protection order using this low standard.
Jordan subsequently put forward five questions that he wants answers to with a deadline of April 11, 2024, at 5:00 p.m.:
Explanations of how they are ensuring that monies that have already been distributed to jurisdictions “are following the constitutional and due process safeguards [set forward in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act].”
Explanation of how Crifasi and Horowitz’s office are “adhering to the provision of the law that requires ‘penalties for abuse of the program.’”
“All documents and communications from June 25, 2022 to present between Executive Office of the President employees and Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions employees referring or relating to National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center.”
“All documents and communications from June 25, 2022 to present between DOJ employees and Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions employees referring or relating to National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center.”
Jordan emphasized that the documents Crifasi and Horowtiz provide must also include those connected to the John Hopkins FY 2022 grant application for funding for an Extreme Risk Protective Order and Firearm Crisis Intervention Training and Technical Assistance Institute.
This is the kind of pressure that needs to be placed on Gun Control Inc. and its many endeavors. Complacency is not an option in the fight to restore the Second Amendment.
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