Posted on 01/25/2014 6:44:01 AM PST by yoe
Liberals only enforce laws they support. Check it out:
In what appears to be the latest example in a trend of attorneys general refusing to defend laws passed by legislatures and voters, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced Thursday that he will no longer defend his state’s constitutional amendment defining marriage solely as the union of one man and one woman.
But a leading traditional marriage advocate is blasting Herring for casting aside the duties of his office to pursue a partisan agenda.
As a member of the state senate, Herring voted for the 2006 state constitutional amendment that defines marriage in the commonwealth as solely between a man and a woman. Now, less than two weeks after taking office as attorney general, he says the government is not only abandoning the defense of the law but actively joining a lawsuit filed against it by two same-sex couples.
“After thorough legal review, I have now concluded that Virginia’s ban on marriage between same-sex couples violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution on two grounds: Marriage is a fundamental right being denied to some Virginians, and the ban unlawfully discriminates on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender,” Herring said.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativebyte.com ...
I don't know what part of the XIV Amendment Mr. Herring is referring to however, it seems he is magically abolishing the Voters of Virginia choice on same sex marriage.....and that is criminal.
Certainly seems like an impeachable issue to me
Title should be:
Alarming trend: DEMOCRAT Attorneys general refuse to defend laws
We have that up here in Pennsylvania too. This psychotic that Bloomberg’s money got elected is doing the same things.
It’s only “settled law” when it furthers the leftist the agenda.
PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane—widely speculated to be the Democratic challenger in this year’s gubernatorial election—was the trendsetter in this despicable direction.
Late last June she said she would not defend the Commonwealth’s DOMA against the ACLU since she supports the ACLU position.
If she refuses to do her sworn responsibility she should RESIGN or be IMPEACHED.
Well.... money and hookers used to work fairly well.
Yes, he should be removed immediately. Are we a banana republic or a country of laws?
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The Bank Secrecy Act should be deployed ASAP: Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of govt fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, and other financial crimes.
“The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.
L/E needs to use the Bank Secrecy Act to examine the AG's bank accounts:
<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate collusion and conspiracy. Govt monies may pay for personal and private expenses, credit cards, real estate subsidies and vehicle purchases.
<><> To cover their tracks, govt insiders might fake invoices, falsified to show that money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate govt purposes.
<><> The scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from federal and state sources that actually covered the transfer of funds from co-conspirators for the insiders' own use.
<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC other accounts, to operate personal businesses. Govt fraud can also be facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intrabank transfers from govt accounts into personal accounts.
<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel and gifts from luxury outlets for S/O's.
NEED TO SEE (1) copies of checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, contracts, loan agreements, and, (8) any other books or records. L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.
NEED TO KNOW about suspicious activities: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.
Taxpayers should demand the Bank Secrecy Act be used to investigate govt fraud pronto.
“Yes, he should be removed immediately.”
Agreed, but how? The people of that state just elected him.
I do not think the legislature will act. He is vile, but what can one do? If the voters are stupid??????
I suspect that she would stop anything the legislature passes that Dems disagree with, such as the paycheck protection bill, and the liquor privatization, assuming the GOP has the stones to pass them, which is doubtful.
The point is 1 at a time, versus the efficiency of making an organization.
Trying to corrupt officials 1 at a time is slow going.
An organization allows for broad acceptance of policy changes, going one step at a time down the slippery slope.
This is how our nation’s laws and law enforcement have SO DRAMATICALLY changed since the 1960’s.
The new ideas are pushed by organizations.
And the organizations don’t have to even bother with the hookers and actually getting each member to accept money or hookers.
They simply change the public conversation, the perception of right and wrong, by making small changes to the organization’s policies.
After a few decades, we’ve gone from sodomy being illegal to those who commit acts of sodomy being a protected class.
It’s not criminal, although it’s weasely. The voters need to bounce him out at the next chance.
As conservatives we have to stop thinking that our salvation is going to be via politicians, particularly those in statewide offices. It’s a big tent for them.
We need to get the most conservative state houses, House Reps and Senate we can. That’s where the action is. Governors, other statewide officers and Presidents are generally in the center and we’d like them center-right.
That’s the political reality we face right now. We can cobble together a center-right coalition for executive office elections and that’s to our benefit. Let the legislatures do the real work over time.
You can imagine the backroom ‘instruction list’ seminar once he was finally elected...
‘We didn’t spend all this money to get YOU elected and maintain the balance in the Senate do you?’
Believe it was after the BUSH/GORE debacle were Kathleen Harris made a ‘name’ for herself...
I think it was after that ‘crushing defeat’ (any loss by a LIB is a ‘crushing defeat’ and illegal) that the target by all the ‘money’ people was States AG’s, with the idea being if the Libs controlled the vote AND which laws to prosecute etc they would control everything eventually.
What concerns me most about the D’Souza ‘case’ is that the Libs basically bragged about some Texas billionaire who BOUGHT the Libertarian in VA - who even ALL the Libertarians deemed was not what he was projecting....He carried enough of the vote to get McAwful in.....
A rhetorical question I know, but why isn’t DOJ going after him and clowns like Soros and Bloomberg’s Mayors (Governors) for Gun CONTROL, who openly brag about what they are doing.
We are in a botched up world when the likes of Anthony Weiner make couple hundred thou a year as a ‘Political Advisor’ ...... like the man said
“How bad can your campaign be going when your main question is “What would Anthony Weiner, do? Better give him a call”.
My guess if the Congress will refuse to do their sworn duty as elected representatives, quid pro quo now days.
I understand that, and agree.
If you see posts of interest to Pennsylvanians, please ping me.
Thanks!
Thanks lightman for the heads up
If these Attorneys General personal bias is getting in the way of them handling a particular case, they should recuse themselves from such cases(or resign from office). If no mechanism exist for them to do so, their state legislators need to create one.
Exactly the problem with centralized government.
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