Judge Objects to Staying of Pledge Decision

Fox News ^ | July 2, 2002 | Associated Press

[ZULU]

SAN FRANCISCO

[ZULU]

THE ARROGANCE OF THE FEDERAL COURTS!!!

[Phantom Lord]

I don't think public opinion had anything to do with they staying of the decision.

It 100% had to do with RATS in DC melting their phones knowing that it was bad for them.

[Swanks]

He said nobody pressured him to issue the order, which is allowed under court rules.

Right. The Pubbies should hold an oversight hearing to see just how much pressure the Stupid Judge received from their colleagues in the Democrat party. See just how many phone calls came from Daschle's office to the judge's office that day.

[First_Salute]

Judges object to the people making policy and laws thru their duly elected represenatives sitting in legislative bodies.

Judges object to all but judges and lawyers making laws, deciding public policy, deciding personal policy.

Judges are royalty-for-their-own-making.

[MJY1288]

Exactly, Lets treat this like the RATS did Enron, Maybe we can get Bob Barr to subpeona the phone records of all the democrats in Congress anhd the 9th Circuit Court and see if there is any ethics violations, Then we will see just how bias the news media is when they denounce the GOP for partisen attacks

[laconic]

Carter-appointed Reinhardt is the Judge who wrote FROM THE BENCH to Bush, Sr. demanding that he appoint more "compassionate liberals" to the federal courts. He is married to Ramona Ripston, head of the ACLU in Los Angeles and a constant source of trouble for every nut cause imaginable.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Lifetime appointment=a lifetime of arrogance.

[jpl]

The guy is technically correct when he says that they caved to public pressure. Nobody in this country can just ignore a 99-0 spanking from the U.S. Senate.

The more important issue is that the current 9th Circuit Court has proven to be so radical, so far out of the American mainstream, and so incorrect on most matters of law (as evidenced by the sheer number of times they get overturned) that one could make a pretty good argument that the court should be disbanded and its terrority distributed among the other Circuits.

[mattdono]

He said the court has been flooded with messages from school districts, in addition to "mindless telephone and e-mail traffic that was tying up the clerk's office and some of the other judges."

Hmmm... I am sure that we gave them a good FREEPin', and I am sure that the "mindless" label doesn't apply to FREEPERs.

[ZULU]

I think a RE-freeping is in order!!

[ZULU]

I have a better idea. FREE SAN FRANCISCO!!

[ZULU]

I hope they haven't managed to reproduce. That would be REAL scary. On the other hand, as a liberal feminist freak, maybe she got him to have a vasectomy and it has effected his mind.

[1rudeboy]

Lifetime appointment=a lifetime of arrogance.

Lifetime appointment=constitutional requirement.

[browardchad]

Carter-appointed Reinhardt is the Judge who wrote FROM THE BENCH to Bush, Sr. demanding that he appoint more "compassionate liberals" to the federal courts. He is married to Ramona Ripston, head of the ACLU in Los Angeles and a constant source of trouble for every nut cause imaginable.

Reinhardt has also been involved in a disproportionately high number of overturned cases, even by California standards.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Public anger=Recall petition

[1rudeboy]

recall federal judge=mob rule

[aristeides]

I think I recently read that in one Supreme Court term decisions in which Reinhardt participated were reversed an incredible total of five times.

Reinhardt's reaction here shows that, whoever wrote and signed the Pledge opinion, he was the prime mover in the decision.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I basically agree with the ruling (though I haven't read the text of the opinion, so I can't say I necessarily agree with every detail), but I also agree with the stay, on the grounds of common sense. It obviously won't do any serious harm for public school kids to keep saying the Pledge the way they have been, as the case works its way through the appeals process. And it would be pointlessly disruptive to have the wording changing back and forth repeatedly as courts reverse each other back and forth on the way to the Supremes ("Children, today the court says we have to say the pledge WITH "under God"; I know that's different from how we've been saying it for the past 3 months, but try to remember how the court wants us to say it now".) Though of course, that absurd scenario might have the desirable effect of instilling in the children a healthy sense of rebellion against government meddling . . .