[Hunton Peck]

The judge is 0bama appointee William M. Conley.

The ruling: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/329900-read-the-federal-ruling-striking-parts-of.html#document/p1

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

That one won’t last. Ridiculous decision.

[DiogenesLamp]

This is a clever tactic because he has a valid legal point. Wisconsin voted to stop collecting dues for these unions automatically, but did not do so for Public Safety Unions such as Police and Fire. It is correctly assumed that to do such a thing would result in an uproar from the popular Police and Fire unions, and for that reason the law was not intended to apply to them.

It is politically unpalatable for the State to attempt to apply such rules to Police and Fire unions. The Judge fully well knows this.

The Valid legal point the judge makes is that the Constitutional equal protection under the law (14th Amendment) does not allow a state to create a law that affects one group without affecting all groups in the same manner. Had the law applied to ALL unions, it would be constitutionally acceptable, but because it singles out "General" unions for it's provisions, it is not.

The Wisconsin Legislature will either have to bite the bullet and pass a law that applies to ALL unions, including Police and Fire, or they will have to give up on the idea as legally/politically un-do-able.

[Jacquerie]

Leftist judicial code that justifies their assumption of legislative power:

there is no rational basis

Compelling state interest

Penumbras and emanations

Arbitrary and capricious

Congressional laws passed by democrat majorities are assumed Constitutional. State laws passed by republican majorities are not.

If you have not, be sure to educate your kids and grand kids on the war the Left is making on our civilization.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Bill Struck Down in part ping

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I haven’t been following this story, but the courts are the only hope the parasites have to stay on the government teet. State and local budgets no longer get the “boatloads” of federal taxpayer money that supported public salaries and pensions.

[Monorprise]

A general problem with leftist Judges is they tend not to care at all about the law and instead concern themselves almost exclusively with their own ideological goals.

This has the effeict of making their “judgement very fast”