Sounds like the Philly Inky is blowing this up a bit in order to force the gov to declare the option is not on the table, but if Christie DID tell the NJ court to stuff it, it would be REALLY interesting.
The NJ Supreme Court is just one of three branches of NJ government. If they can order the other two branches, then what is the point of the other two branches?
This is why I will never live in NJ. The entitlement attitude extends to all parts of the state, including the entitlement to a “thorough and efficient” education. Move out of the state folks. Starve it to death by having no one to tax.
JoMa
However, the MSM and the libs are just fine with the Obama administration ignoring the DOMA.
Only if Christie backs down.
Unless the NJ Constitution grants the Court the power to make or change law, the governor can ignore any court ruling that oversteps the bounds of the Courth’s authority. As is clearly the case here.
The court will “win” this battle but the people of New Jersey will lose and eventually education as a whole will suffer.
We are coming to the end game of the Socialist Ponzi Scheme. So many have been promised so much, yet the money is running out.
So the courts will order more money spent on schools, that money will have to come from somewhere. Other functions will have to be cut or taxes will have to be raised.
As someone pointed out on another thread, the United States is reaching a tipping point. It is going to get ugly before all this is over.
All Christie has to do, according to the old ruling, is make school funding “equitable”, ie., slice up the state’s available pie in equal pieces. If the court tries to tell Christie to simply “increase funding”, then that is something new and is a leap from the old “equitable” ruling.
...In which case Christie BETTER tell the scumbags in black robes to go play in the street.
That ain’t their job.
Just add $1 to each school’s budget. Then let them sue again. Rinse and repeat.
Similarly, oil rich states should tell the federal government to stuff it and go ahead and authorize drilling on their own.
Seems like the first place to find the money is cutting all funding to the Supreme Court.
And if he does defy the court, he’ll be just like Obamao defying the Florida court decision against Obamaocare.
This writer is the full time ‘dig up dirt on Christie” twit.
seriously!
Look, the branches have to have CHECKS on each other...for the past GENERATION, nothing has been put in the way of a runaway rogue court.
The Massachusetts SCOTUS gay ruling was one of the most heinous.
The NJ Supreme Court cannot be allowed to write legislation. That is NOT their job.
Look, the branches have to have CHECKS on each other...for the past GENERATION, nothing has been put in the way of a runaway rogue court.
The Massachusetts SC gay ruling was one of the most heinous.
The NJ Supreme Court cannot be allowed to write legislation. That is NOT their job.
This is a real interesting constitutional separation of powers issue. It depends very much on the wording of New Jersey’s state constitution and the statute in question, which the MSM will never print, let alone understand. We’re better off looking that up on legal blogs like the Volokh Conspiracy.
Leftist, activist judges will never allow lawmakers to make the law, Christie. Sure to GOD you must know that. So you might as well make your stand NOW. Nothing will change down the road.
Sooner or later, leftist activists on the bench will HAVE to be told to go to hell. What better guy to do it than a governor??!!
Just ignore em’. Seems to work for the Obozo.
It really is true that, a (state or federal) "Court is just one of three branches of ... government. If they can order the other two branches, then what is the point of the other two branches?"
I believe that eventually constitutional governance will only be preserved when one of the branches simply says "stuff it!" to our imperial court system.