Posted on 07/13/2004 10:08:18 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
Minnesota's conceal and carry gun law was declared unconstitutional today by a Ramsey County District judge.
Ruling in a lawsuit brought by several churches, Judge John Finley wrote in his decision that it was unconstitutional for the 2002 Legislature to bundle the conceal and carry gun language with a "totally unrelated bill relating to the Department of Natural Resources."
He said the state Constitution prohibits laws from embracing more than one subject.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
He's a little out of his pay grade isn't he? Is he going to declare all the rest of the laws that have been passed as part of other bills unconstitutional?
That sounds like the story out of NY State yesterday, where a town judge in the hamlet of New Paltz declared that the state law banning same-sex marriage -- which New Paltz Mayor Jason West had violated about two dozen times in March -- was "unconstitutional" (whereby I'm not sure if the judge ws ruling based on the U.S., NYS, Canadian or New Paltz Constitution). That town judgeship is probably, like the mayoralty, a part-time job.
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