[Paraclete]

"Bennett also ordered Weber to take a college level class on the U.S. Constitution."

There's hope yet?

[JLS]

Yeah, I really like a judge with creative orders particularly for bureaucrats.

[RightFighter]

A federal judge has ruled an Iowa sheriff violated a man's First Amendment rights when he denied the man's application for a permit to carry a weapon.

Who's wrong here - the reporter or the judge?

[Constitution Day]

"Bennett also ordered Weber to take a college level class on the U.S. Constitution."

That is OUTSTANDING.

[pnh102]

NO "PERMIT" SHOULD BE NEEDED!

What is to stop this anti-USA commissar "sheriff" from revoking a permit later?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

"Bennett also ordered Weber to take a college level class on the U.S. Constitution."

Take a class on the what? Never heard of that thing before.

[PubliusMM]

Don’t overlook the fact that ‘college level’ courses on the Constitution have given us all the activists judges, too...

Not wholly certain that this is a good thing...Maybe he should have directed the good sheriff to a school like Hillsdale.

[FreePaul]

Where is the Sheriff going to find a college that doesn’t agree with his suppression of the first and second amendment rights?

[Larry Lucido]

If he takes it at University of Iowa, he’ll be armed with a hundred different ways to subvert the Consitution.

[ellery]

ping!

[Americanexpat]

What I never understood is the Constitution says Congress shall create any laws infringing on my rights to keep and bear arms. Then it lets state and local governments do exactly that. They force me to get government approval to carry a concealed weapon which can be arbitrarily denied by some local law enforcement official for any reason he sees fit.

[iowamark]

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/07/08/federal-judge-blasts-iowa-sheriff-for-denying-gun-permit-to-nut-job/
“”“The court finds a tsunami, a maelstrom, an avalanche, of direct, uncontroverted evidence in Sheriff Weber’s own testimony to conclude beyond all doubt that he unquestionably violated the First Amendment rights of … Paul Dorr,” wrote U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett of the Northern District of Iowa...

The Dorr case, filed in October 2008, inspired some grassroots activists to push for changes in the state law that gives Iowa sheriff’s almost unlimited discretion to deny weapons permits.

After intense lobbying from Iowa gun rights advocates and the National Rifle Association, state lawmakers earlier this year approved legislation that spells out a narrow list of reasons why a sheriff can deny a permit. The new law takes effect Jan. 1, 2011.

In his ruling Wednesday, Bennett ordered the Osceola County sheriff to immediately issue Dorr a nonprofessional permit to carry a weapon....

“In denying (Dorr) a concealed weapons permit, Sheriff Weber single-handedly hijacked the First Amendment and nullified its freedoms and protections,” Bennett wrote...

Weber testified that after Dorr began to work with a group that challenged the county budget: “People started talking about it saying things like, ‘Oh, that guy’s a nut job. Oh, that guy’s whacko.’”””

[piroque]

"Bennett also ordered Weber to take a college level class on the U.S. Constitution."

Judge Bennett "bitch slaps sheriff Weber"

[bamahead]

Bennett also ordered (Sherrif) Weber to take a college level class on the U.S. Constitution.



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[wastedyears]

These people can’t even get the Amendments right.

[elkfersupper]

All that is good, but free men don’t ask permission.