GOP Attorney Unleashes Tirade When Asked By Fellow Republicans Why He Is Helping Anti-Gun Dem AG

A Republican Commonwealth’s Attorney clashed with a local GOP committee after he aided Democratic Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones in defending a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms.

A judge in Lancaster County, Virginia, sided with the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League and Gun Owners of America by putting the ban Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed into law on hold, according to social media posts by VCDL and GOA. Frederick County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ross Spicer was questioned as to why he had joined with Jones to consolidate four separate suits challenging the ban and to have it heard in Richmond in a contentious meeting with the Frederick County Republican Committee.

“This is not a dialogue. You will listen to me. You will be respectful to me. You will not interrupt me. You will let me have my floor,” Spicer said at one point, later saying, “I’m giving you five more seconds and I’m walking out of here. If you want to shut up, then shut up. If you want to hear from me, five, four, three, two, one. Yes.”

After the initial clash, Spicer then began to address the committee regarding calls for him to not enforce the ban, invoking both the United States Constitution and the Virginia Constitution.

“The structure of our governance is such that we have divided government. That doesn’t mean Republicans and Democrats. It means three branches of the government,” Spicer said. “Article One says that the legislature shall legislate statutes; Article Two, the executive branch says, and I quote, by the way, the combo’s attorney is part of the Article Two, the executive, this is what I’m obligated to do under the United States Constitution, ‘Take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ Let me read the analogous section in the Virginia Constitution, ‘the Executive Commons Attorney shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ Does everyone understand what that means?”