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As conservatives, we should expressly desire for judges to follow the law, not to make it up as they go along. For Land to have done anything other than dismiss would clearly have been "making it up" as he went along - hardly a conservative position.

There's nothing more unbecoming in a conservative than hypocrisy. The hypocrisy on display by many on and about this topic is unrelenting with respect how they wish for jurists to behave, rather than expecting the judge to follow the law as well as his obligations as outlined in the Federal Rules for Civil Procedures - rules that are understood by every 1L in the country. It's painfully hypocritical and equally unbecoming.

From the opinion:
"Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which our Country was founded in order to purportedly “protect and preserve” those very principles."

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Do you happen to have a link for the ruling in this case? It's not in the Ledger-Enquirer story, from what I can tell. I would like to read it in its entirety. Thanks!