Posted on 09/01/2018 3:57:50 AM PDT by marktwain
Judge Robert S. Lasnik, United States District Judge of the Western District of Washington, at Seattle, issued a permanent injunction against the Trump Administration State Department.
The injunction is to prevent the State Department from implementing a court settlement with Defense Distributed, allowing them to exercise their First Amendment rights.
The permanent injunction was issued on the 27th of August, 2018, in Seattle, Washington State. The temporary restraining order had been issued on 31 July. Judge Lasnik has taken the power of deciding what may or may not be lawful, based on the principle of potential harm. Potential, or irreparable harm, is almost never used in First Amendment cases. It is a form of prior restraint.
It is a principle of law that in order to have standing for a lawsuit, the plaintiff must have suffered actual harm. Potential harm is not an allowed reason for action in most cases.
Judge Lasnik ignores this principle, and holds that in his opinion, allowing computer files to be published, in accordance with the First Amendment,
might allow a person to be able to create a firearm, that might be used in the commission of a crime, that might cause a person to be harmed, that would cause harm to the State of Washington. Judge Lasnik simply ignores the multiple other ways that equally effective non-detectable firearms can be made. He deliberately shows technological ignorance. From the decision:
Irreparable Harm
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
It will be appealed, but it is in the Ninth Circuit, so it is up for grabs.
WTF? So when the state of California denies its own constitution and refuses to implement prop 8 nor and the citizens of California sue the courts say “no standing” and no judge anywhere jumps in otherwise.
Or when states refuse to accept illegal immigrants placed by Obama without their permission the judges jump in and say that’s the law as written suckas.
Now the shoe is on the other foot and suddenly judges are finding that they can just decide they don’t like laws or executive actions and just dictate from the bench? Sessions doesn’t have to prosecute... suckas
Since when does some activist judge from East Podunk have the power to make a decision that applies nationwide?
Has it always been this way?
And how many brigades does this tin pot dictator of a judge have? Thousands of 7s have posted these files since 2013. What is he going to do about it? Codeisfreespeech.com
No, and SCOTUS Justice Clarance Thomas has recently warned these district judges about their overreach in declaring universal decisions.
Appointed by pervert Bill Clinton.
The black robes are mobilized and in rebellion.
Change the Ninth Circus....scatter it to the wind.
Fake judge. Real judges understand three branches of government are co-equal. He orders no other branch. Fake judge will lose. Bigly.
The judge is totally irreevant. The horse has left the barn and shutting the door will not prevent escape.
Since I and millions of others posess the file in protected cloud accounts, the judge’s prohibition is totally irrelevant
The freedom to make your own gun is safely preserved
This “judge” caries the standard for nitwittery. What a misguided, misinformed, judgment-challenged, self-important wretch.
“...judges are finding that they can just decide they don’t like laws or executive actions and just dictate from the bench...”
Been an ongoing process in the 9th District for some time but, expanding in numerous states. What the hell ever happened to our once “stable” justice system? Oh, never mind, i’s only the liberals again....
Better yet, start the impeachment process.
So one judge is preventing the implementation of a court settlement approved by another judge; how does that happen? Can the judge that approved the court settlement hold Judge Lasnik in contempt for interfering with his court settlement?
This is right up there with the decision to keep cannabis a Sched I drug under Fed control because ‘... it MAY cross state lines, thereby affecting interstate commerce’. Clearly that violated the ‘actual harm’ requirement, yet, here we are.
Where’s the rope? You forgot the rope.
This flaming judicial activism is entirely the fault of Congress. These inferior courts are a creation of Congress and subject to Congressional oversight. Congress can limit the jurisdiction of every court except the Supreme. Impeachments should be flying and jurisdiction should be revoked.
“Where’s the rope? You forgot the rope.”
My lamp post is intended to shine a light on truth. Any other uses for it are up to the individual observer.
...and piano wire is preferred. ;->
Help me understand where these judges in another state get to overrule a President AND make laws for other states?
It is a fairly new procedure.
Justice Thomas has said it is not in accordance with precedent, and the Supreme Court should rule on it.
Judges rulings should be limited to their jurisdiction.
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