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To: dirtboy
The real gripe against Pryor is that he is, in fact, following the law as laid down by a federal judge, when his opponents wish he tell the feds to stuff it.

Actually I think you missed the point of the "quack like a duck" reference. Would there be _any_ federal order that a state judge should not obey? Is there _ever_ a time to follow a higher law and ignore the temporal one?
360 posted on 11/12/2003 7:32:18 AM PST by farmer18th
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To: farmer18th
Actually I think you missed the point of the "quack like a duck" reference. Would there be _any_ federal order that a state judge should not obey? Is there _ever_ a time to follow a higher law and ignore the temporal one?

I have said REPEATEDLY that I thought Pryor should have stood up to the feds. Why do you refuse to let that salient detail soak in? My point is, no matter what you and I consider to be Constitutional (and I doubt we're all that far apart on that subject), in this day and age, the federal judiciary has the last say in the matter, unless Congress cuts off their funding for specific areas such as the Pledge matter. So Pryor was, in effect, following the law as it stands, and my argument with you is not with the appropriateness of Pryor's actions, but with your claim that he was not following the law.

Our objective must be to create more conservatives who understand the concept of limited federal government, which in turn will impact Congress, the Presidency and eventually the judiciary. But when some of your cohorts are deriding erstwhile allies because we're just not true enough believers, you're never going to get anywhere in that direction.

362 posted on 11/12/2003 7:40:33 AM PST by dirtboy (New Ben and Jerry's flavor - Howard Dean Swirl - no ice cream, just fruit at bottom)
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