INDEPENDENT AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
Posted on 09/22/2009 12:13:25 PM PDT by bridgemanusa
State senators passed a bill today 24-16 allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to pick a temporary U.S. senator by the end of the week following a final procedural vote tomorrow.
If the House and Senate pass the bill, as expected, tomorrow a temporary senator can be chosen to fill the seat left vacant by the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. A permanent replacement will be elected by voters during a Jan. 19 special election.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
My guess is WV is looking at its law now due to Bird’s hospital visit and no news.
The only rule - the only standard left - at all is the one that states, simply, the Left finds a rationale to do whatever they want.
The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise in the model of ACORN.
Why don’t they save time and just make the law say:
If Democrat governor—successor appointed directly.
If Republican governor—special election.
The Left is ruthless, the GOP is spineless.
And we are all just peasants, hanging on for dear life as our rulers take us into uncharted territory.
It will make for political ads in the 2010 elections. I hope not everyone is tone deaf. I was born there. Very sad.
Pa. (current home) not much better..but momentum is building to take it back. Good luck to you...
That phrase just might go on America's tombstone.
WTF tiBS!!!
They should do it themselves. That was the original way for it to be done.
Will we remember in November? (2010?)
Lets hope the Republicans can return the favor some day
The banana Republic of Mass is at it again.
Thank God I do not live there anymore.
I left Mass 8 years ago, and when they do this sh** I still feel embarrassed and ashamed.
RATs have no shame.
Is it possible that there’s an Ex Post Facto case to be made here? Don’t know who would have standing to sue, though.
Even money that Deval Patrick names himself to the spot.
After all, ethics don’t seem to matter too much in Massachussetts.
I find it scary that my tagline is appropriate for darn near every post lately.
Another day, another injury, another step closer...
Certainly a great day for the socialists... First this crap and the former attorney general from Taxachusetts is appointed special investigator to examine ACORN. The Fix is in!!!!!!
This is such a disgusting state. The sane 1/3 will never triumph over these corrupt pols and the moonbats who elect them.
Perhaps we need a Federal Law to specify how a state can replace a Senator who has resigned or died in office.
possibly - but someone will have to file for an immediate injunction because the Democrats will waste no time seating Dukakis.
How is this not an ex post facto law? If there is a law (and there is) when the “opening” occurred - that current law MUST be followed in order to fill that position. Now, the NEXT time an opening occurs, then they can use the interim appointment, but this is simply illegal!!!
All it SHOULD take is one MA resident to file a complaint.
They have both covered this way. They can claim they did have a special election as the law says...they just filled the gap...
Oh puh-lease. You’re going to let a little thing like the law get in the way of ObamaCare. You must be a racist. /s
This is a state issue. If a law has been violated by this change, it will be a MA law, not a federal one. Prior MA law required that the seat remain vacant until the election takes place. Now, the election will still take place, but they’re changing the part about it remaining vacant. I doubt MA courts will care.
Hey Claire, is it time yet?
Thanks, my new tag line.
“The Left is ruthless, the GOP is spineless.”
Why doesn’t Massachusetts just hire Castro and get it over with?
Better yet, why do not the inhabitants of Massachusetts simply move to Cuba and complete that which they are approaching asymptotically?
Then the rest of us can repopulate the state with folks who actually understand the constitution.
note, from Herald article.
Vote on emergency pre-amble is tomorrow...?
>>A legislative quirk means the bill might not be able to go into effect immediately without a two-thirds vote - something the legislation doesn’t have. Without an emergency preamble, Patrick couldn’t make an appointment until 90 days when the bill goes into effect. Murray said the governor could skirt that law by sending a letter to Secretary of State William Galvin saying the law is an emergency.
It was a sleezeball move, but the state has the right to change their laws.
CORRUPTION at ALL levels of our political system.
“I am so ashamed to be living amongst these corrupt polls.”
I feel sorry for you. This is un-freaking-believable.
It may or may not have that right. How long have you been studying MA election law to make such a statement?
“Not a done deal yet. Senator Brown is on the Howie Carr show saying that the house needs a two-thirds vote to make this work. They are a few votes short. Even some Democrats didn’t follow the Rat leadership on this. “
i hope that Brown is right and they kill this bill.
“Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.” ~ Clarance Darrow
“The more laws, the less justice.” ~ German Proverb
“Laws are not invented; they grow out of circumstances.” ~ Azarias
Guess Massachusetts is no different.
Every RAT counts as Reid attempts to ram through Obamacare health deform using the budget procedure of “reconciliation.”
This underscores that the RATs are planning to use reconciliation (only 50 votes needed to pass the measure). Why else would they be scrambling this hard for one simple addition RAT Senator?
"Eleven Democrats voted against the measure"
I'm confused:
Does Mass have the only eleven honest democrats in the nation?
Or, did the town halls have had more impact than they let on?
No problemo. Consignorli Emmanuel has been working the phones offering DVDs of Obama's greatest speeches for their vote.
i also just read that Patrick can circumvent the whole 2/3rds vote thing by making it some sort of “emergency” measure. oh goodie
Awww. The State Constitution is merely a guide. When you have the political majority you can do whatever you want. Of course, if another party takes control in a few years, they can point back to this precedent set by the Liberals and say, “See, Its OK” That’s why all Democracies that abandon the rule of Law for political expediency end up living under dictators. Oh well.
Hyde: It was a sleezeball move, but the state has the right to change their laws.
Looks like they recently changed their election law.
The original Constitution made State Legislatures exclusively responsible for Senatorial appointments.
After XVII, legislatures were given the specific power to do what the MA legislature just did (instruct the Governor to appoint a temporary Senator), so, no - there is explicit federal Constitutional authority for this law, it can't violate the ban on ex post facto laws, therefore.
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