Who’s In Charge of America?

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 27 July 2007 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Congressman Billybob]

Thanks for catching that error. It’s corrected.

John

[Guenevere]

bttt

[NewRomeTacitus]

Well stated.

[AmericaOne]

You hit the nail right on the head. Excellent read!!!

Thank you for writing and posting this.

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

Congressman Billybob,

What are the principles of federalism, and are they compatible with Campaign Finance Reform? How so?

I would love to see this answer in the form of an essay here at FR.

Thanks!

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

I think it is the DC planet.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Here’s one tool we can use, and we can use it right here from FR.

RICO —Citizen Recourse

Private persons and entities may initiate civil suits to obtain injunctions and treble damages against enterprises that conspire to or actually violate federal alien smuggling, harboring, or document fraud statutes, under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO). The pattern of racketeering activity is defined as commission of two or more of the listed crimes. A RICO enterprise can be any individual legal entity, or a group of individuals who are not a legal entity but are associated in fact, and can include nonprofit associations.

[freekitty]

lol

[djf]

Why do illegal aliens have standing in an American court?

[Tenniel2]

Re "Framers" -- Don't think of it as an error, at least not amongst us chickens here on FR.
It's just your Constitutional muse's Freudian slip showing.

[Regulator]

Why do illegal aliens have standing in an American court?

They don't. The judge in this case feels sorry for them because he thinks the immigration laws are mean.

So he decided that criminals who might be affected by a law designed to punish them should be able to sue the people who made the law to throw it out. But no criminal wants his name known, so the judge happily complied with that desire and let the case go forward with a few "Does" who could be entirely fictional for all we know.

In other words the judge made up a right. Out of thin air. Like his plaintiffs probably were, too.

[ckilmer]

agreed.

[Mamzelle]

I can't fathom the logic of this judge's decision. A municipality has the right to make a town "dry" at its discretion, although the ATF is the federal agency overseeing alcohol distribution.

What about an appeal?

[Congressman Billybob]

Not only has this decision been appealed to the third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, but the City has made clear it intends to go all the way to the Supreme Court. And in the higher courts, I will be working on amicus curia briefs in support of the City.

John / Billybob

[wardaddy]

Who’s In Charge of America?

My wife.

[BurbankKarl]

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are in charge

[stephenjohnbanker]

Excellent, thank you.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Who’s In Charge of America?”

Looks like La Raza.