You can’t get a job in government today if you are not a socialist.
Judge Sumi will get smacked down by the appeals court. Up hers!
The curious step that the Republicans could take....walk back in and start the process all over. Course, this would mean that fourteen Democratic state senators have to pack up a bag in a hurry...hustle off to a Illinois water-park resort, and eat mostly pizza for four weeks.
It would not shock me if this suddenly occurred in June and charged up the public again within the state. The positive side is that this resort in Illinois might make a fair amount of profit for 2011.
Nothing but a stalling tactic.
Give notice and do it again.
From what I understand of it, is that this activist “judge” made a ruling that is 100% off base and thus without merit.
SOP for these people.
I heard this morning that the Republics plan to just pass it again, this time with the dems there.
Has the Governor sent out the layoff notices yet?
In TN they don’t have to list their party and that creates BIG issues for conservative voters. Unless you know for sure what party they are from best to vote NO on retaining them. They count on our ignorance of their party to stay in office.
This looks like an opportunity for a two-fer. The Governor can now layoff all the idiot teachers and then get the bill back after the appeal.
This would be a great time for new legislation simply banning collective bargaining for all public employees. The Commie Unions have to see this coming.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.
For the Judiciary to have the authority to rule on the procedures used in a legislature seems completely unprecedented.
I don't know the Wisconsin Constitution, but for the federal courts, the Justice Department would lack standing and the court would lack authority to rule.
Any lawyers out there know of any precedents or the Wisconsin Constituion?
This was not about the "will of the people" but rather the Constitutional legislative process in WI.
Were it about the "will of the people" the myriad demonstrations at the Capitol of Madison would reveal that democracy, in it's purest form, would have turned WI into a socialist state.
Article IV.
Rules; contempts; expulsion. SECTION 8. Each house may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish for contempt and disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two− thirds of all the members elected, expel a member; but no member shall be expelled a second time for the same cause.
This case should go nowhere.
If it were the people's will to take your guns, for example.
Look. It’ the role of the court to determine if any law passed by the government (no matter how overwhelmingly popular) is constitutional. We all get that.
With that said, the ruling by this Wisconsin Judge is just pure intellectual sloth at best or party politics at worse. If it’s the latter, the woman should be removed from her position. Judges are not supposed to respond to the politics of the issue.
True, by rule (not by law...by rule) if the Senate was in normal session a certain amount of time must be given before any vote can occur. However, the rules do not apply when the Senate is in ‘Special Session’ and the Senate was in Special session. Therefore, no time was needed to call for debate and vote. I’ve read over this at least ten times now. It’s more clear than Wisconsin is cold.
I understand the Dems are frustrated with the new collective bargaining laws in Wisconsin. I even respect their spirited opposition to it. Still, on some level don’t they know that sometimes the other side gets to win day? And, that’s all that has happened this time....Walker and the GOP won the day....for now.
As a winners in this scrum, we GOPers certainly don’t insist that we also get to win over their hearts and minds, too. But, we absolutely do insist they lose with graciousness, class, and dignity...all of which they seem to be incapable of displaying.
In any case, this is a democracy. The next election is just around the corner....always. Grow up, Democrats!!
How can a county judge’s ruling have jurisdiction over an entire state?
The Republican majority will prevail here in a revote if necessary.
The liberal process for wearing down your opponent and get your way:
First, call the concept racist, sexist, or some other “ist”.
Second, if that does not work, start screaming “Do it for the children!!” or “It will hurt the middle class!”.
Third, if that does not work, just call it “unconstitutional” since liberals interpret anything they do not like as “unconstitutional” regardless of whether it is or not.
That pretty much sums it up. Did I miss any liberal orthodoxy steps?
JoMa
To the liberals, the courts are supposed to be a super veto against conservative/Republican legislation which, in the view of liberals, goes too far.
The relevant laws, or legal precedents, mean nothing to the liberals. Liberals want judges to impose same-sex marriage, impose and endorse draconian EPA rules, overturn state immigration laws even if the language mirrors federal immigration law, impose requirements for multi-lingualism, overturn laws which define and restrain union bargaining rights, etc.
If the liberals had their way, there would be no legislation and no need for elected representatives. In their utopia, judges would decide everything.
The liberals want judges to make policy choices and enshrine those into legal precedent, based on ruling that a legislature or executive acted unconstitutionally in enacting certain legislation or policies. And that’s where the liberals are all wrong. Judges are not supposed to make policy choices. Judges are supposed to administer law, not make policy choices.
Kneel before the queen you filthy, uneducated rabble!