Activist judges taken to the woodshed (NY & GA.."We the People" rejoiced! )

WND ^ | July 7, 2006 | Kevin McCullough

[IrishMike]

Two rogue activist judges on lower courts in the states of New York and Georgia got the surprise slapped out of them this week.

It's about time!

Judge Doris Ling-Cohen of New York and Constance Russell of Georgia were sent stinging rebukes by their state's highest courts, and in cases that will be watched by other high court's in New Jersey, California and perhaps most importantly Washington. These women were given very clear lessons in judicial clarity and "We the People" rejoiced! ................... Judge Ling-Cohen knew when she issued the decision to allow marriage to be redefined in New York City that she had stirred up a hornet's nest. The very same afternoon, my radio show organized communications with some of the 8,000 church leaders in the New York metro to begin aggressive opposition to her unilateral mandate that defied the state's constitution. Mayor Michael Bloomberg also felt the sting; thousands of phone calls pouring into his office............... The Court of Appeals, the highest court in the Empire State, answered all the involved parties with a 4-2 spanking of the activists. The panel made perfectly clear that only the people of New York should have the ability to redefine the institution of marriage, making clear the division that exists between the judiciary and the Legislature.................................... Less than two hours later, the Georgia Supreme Court sent a much more recent decision by lower court Justice Constance Russell packing, as well. In Russell's flimsy decision to overturn the will of 76 percent of the electorate in the state of Georgia

[Albion Wilde]

Great article, but it left out the "Free State" -- Maryland -- where one female judge, Brooke Murdoch, also threw out the state's marriage law in favor of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of several gay poster couples. (Not the statistically usual ones with the higher-than-hetero rates of split-ups, child abuse or spouse abuse).

The socialist legislature did an outrageous end-run around the thousands of Marylanders who streamed to the Annapolis capital on the day the issue was to be voted on in the legislature -- the Demo head of the Maryland legislature closed the session at noon on the last day to get the issue on the ballot, effectively shutting the door on all those who came out in support of the People's right to decide this issue at the ballot box in November.

The earlier court decision is now in front of the state Supreme Court, but don't hold your breath waiting for a victory for participatory, representative government in this state.

[billhilly]

Those judges take their prejudice's with them to the bench where they more often than not become a majority of one.

[mikeus_maximus]

Those judges take their prejudice's with them to the bench where they more often than not become a majority of one.Both judges are sterotypical examples of the liberal majority of their respective minorities,

[FJ290]

Two rogue activist judges on lower courts in the states of New York and Georgia got the surprise slapped out of them this week.

Great news, wish it would happen more often.