Order Blocks Oklahoma Constitutional Amendment

newsok.com ^ | November 8, 2010 | Tim Talley

[gwjack]

A temporary restraining order has been issued to block a state constitutional amendment that prohibits state courts from considering international or Islamic law when deciding cases. U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange handed down the ruling this morning in Oklahoma City following a brief hearing.

[Ronbo1948]

ONE WORD: IMPEACH!

[screaminsunshine]

Impeach her.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange ...

Supreme Sandwich Just-us Elana Kagan also thinks that Federal judges have that power.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I wish it were that simple — impeach. But who was impeached over Kelo? How many justices were impeached for dissenting against gun rights in Chicago v. McDonald? Most congress critters will tell you that they aren’t empowered to impeach over rulings. A crock, but that’s how they are educated in modern colleges.

[screaminsunshine]

It is that simple as soon as enough people wake up. If they do not well it is over.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for the important ping. Outrageous. Any amendment that doesn’t include judicial reform is a waste of time.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Judicial review is no longer limited to legislation. It has expanded to the point that we can not even amend the People’s Constitution.

[Ronbo1948]

Hmmm?

What then?

Clearly we need massive purge of Leftist judges on the federal bench, and the only way to do that quickly is a revolution.

This fact alone makes me pray for a revolution!

Imagine hundreds of these Leftist parasites in black robes thrown out on the street minus perks, salary and pensions into the worse economy since 1933 created by their very own Comrade Obama.

I get warm fuzzy feeling!

Yes, there is a Just God who rules the universe and His Justice will not sleep forever.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I doubt the Supremes will support that only because we are lucky enough to have sane supremes. But we can't keep playing judicial roulette like this.

[Ronbo1948]

Yep!

The only way I can see to makes things right on the Federal Bench quickly is to clear it of about half the players in a revolution.

A revolution that may actually happen if Obama and Company manage to totally wreck the economy, which does seem possible any day now.

Economic collapse is the thing revolutions are made of.

[SkyPilot]

Chief Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange was the first African-American to be appointed to the federal bench in Oklahoma. Her appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1994 also made her the first African-American federal judge in the six-state region of the federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Her sponsoring senator was then Senator David Boren, who is currently president of the University of Oklahoma. President Clinton had previously appointed her to serve as United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was the first woman to hold that position and one of the first female U.S. attorneys in the nation. Judge Miles-LaGrange was the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma State Senate. She served as a senator from 1986-1993, advocating for programs benefiting children, families, educations, law and justice. While serving in the Oklahoma Legislature, Judge Miles-LaGrange was engaged in the private practice of law in the firm of Miles-LaGrange & Colbert. Earlier in her career, Judge Miles-LaGrange worked as both a federal and state prosecutor. She prosecuted Nazi war criminals for the U.S. Department of Justice, and she prosecuted sex crimes as an assistant district attorney in Oklahoma County. Judge Miles-LaGrange is a cum laude graduate of Vassar College and, while a student there, received a certificate from the University of Ghana. She received her law degree from Howard University, where she was an editor of The Howard Law Journal. During law school, she worked as a congressional aide for the late Speaker of the U. S. House of Representative Carl Albert. After law school, she clerked for Judge Woodrow Seals on the U.S. District Court in Houston, Texas. Chief Judge Miles-LaGrange served as a member of the International Judicial Relations Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1999-2005 and chaired that committee’s Africa Working Group. Her rule of law work has taken her to Rwanda, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Cape Verde China and Brazil. She has taught in China at Tianjin University of Finance and Economics and at Tsinghua University School of Law, at the Harvard University Law School Advocacy Workshop, and at the Attorney General’s National Advocacy Center for federal prosecutors. She has received numerous honors, including induction into the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame, Oklahoma African-American Hall of Fame, Child Advocates Hall of Fame and Mid-America Educational Hall of Fame. She is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma, Class V, and Leadership Oklahoma City, Class V. The Chief Judge holds an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Oklahoma City University.

[SkyPilot]

I think we have a triple hyphen winner!

1. Miles-LaGrange

2. African-American

who is a

3. Person-of-Gender

[wmileo]

""Ghana Law is even better than Scottish law! "

That is a far cry from a real Scott(like William Wallace) you have depicted there.

Arlen is a Kansas schoolboy friend of Bob Dole who moved to Pennsylvania and thereby increased the IQ(Integrity Quotient) of both States.

[panthermom]

It is no wonder I am aggravated all the time. I live in a world I am not familiar with.

Silly me thought the US was a sovereign nation with our own laws.

[FreedomPoster]

“The order was sought in a lawsuit by Oklahoma Muslim Muneer Awad. Awad is executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma and said during the hearing that the law stigmatizes his religion.”

Your violent, totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion deserves every bit of stigma we can heap upon it, Muneer baby. Suck it up.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Like I said ...

“Keep it up, judges. You’re next!”

They’re not untouchable.

[Vaquero]

and the state of OKLAHOMA just needs to bring back their National Guard where ever they are and tell the feds....

MAKE ME!

this is a state law and has nothing to do with the feds.

[LorenC]

The establishment of a religion by any individual STATE is most definitely NOT hampered in any way by the U.S Constitution.

Yes, it is. Nearly all of the provisions of the Bill of Rights have been incorporated against the states, through the application of the 14th Amendment. The prohibition against the establishment of religion was formally incorporated by the Supreme Court in the 1940s.

The First Amendment also says that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. In case you hadn't noticed, states are also Constitutionally prohibited from banning speech, even though that clause originally only applied to the federal Congress.

More about incorporation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

[rfreedom4u]

I’ll bet he issued this TRO on the basis that the amendment specifies Sharia which in turn means islam. Now I believe if the amendment was worded to say that no “religious” law could be used in the courts the judge would have considered it valid. However to single out a specific religion (even though islam is a cult) would be discriminatory.

[backwoods-engineer]

It was noble but stupid to pass this law. The law is clearly unconstitutional

No. It is clearly CONSTITUTIONAL. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Stare decisis of the 14th Amendment says the 1st Amendment is incorporated to the states. Using Sharia to decide court cases in civil courts is an establishment of religion: it establishes Islam's law above the law of the land. Also, Sharia cannot uphold the equality under the law clause of the 14th amendment, since it treats women as chattel.