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Mass. GOP seeks injunction on Kirk appointment
Boston Herald ^ | 09/24/09 | Boston Herald

Posted on 09/24/2009 11:14:40 AM PDT by raccoonradio

The Massachusetts Republican Party has filed an injunction in a Boston court seeking to block former Democratic Party chairman Paul Kirk from becoming the interim replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Lawmakers this week passed legislation giving Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim replacement, but laws approved in Massachusetts usually take 90 days to go into effect. Patrick signed an emergency letter that he says allows the law to become effective immediately.

Republicans allege in their court filing that Patrick did not have the constitutional authority to do that.

But State Secretary William Galvin said today the power to make the immediate appointment is "very clearly available" to Patrick.

Kirk, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, is set to be sworn Friday.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 111th; kirk; ma2009; massachusetts; massgop; paulkirk; senate; tedkennedy
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1 posted on 09/24/2009 11:14:41 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Is the game going into ‘extra innings’???

The Mass. courts are pretty left-leaning, though, aren’t they??


2 posted on 09/24/2009 11:17:31 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: raccoonradio

MA = banana republic

Laws? We don’t need no stinking laws.


3 posted on 09/24/2009 11:17:53 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: raccoonradio

Republicans should be making this a HUGE issue - every day. GET some balls


4 posted on 09/24/2009 11:17:53 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: raccoonradio

They should also file for an injunction as this is an ex-post facto law, prohibited by the Constitution.


5 posted on 09/24/2009 11:19:00 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: raccoonradio

There is truly no level to which democrats won’t stoop.


6 posted on 09/24/2009 11:19:31 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: raccoonradio
"But State Secretary William Galvin said today the power to make the immediate appointment is "very clearly available" to Patrick."

This is why reporters are completely useless. Perhaps a reasonable follow-up question to SOS Galvin by some earnest reporter may have been, "Would you please cite the statutory authority that confers upon the governor the ability to expedite such an appointment". Then, the readers could examine such a citation, and decide for themselves if the Secretary is all wet, or not.

7 posted on 09/24/2009 11:20:14 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: taxcontrol

I understand that only applies to criminal law?


8 posted on 09/24/2009 11:20:39 AM PDT by Andy'smom (The liberation of Massachusetts has begun...)
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To: raccoonradio
So, will any Republican Senators in Washington challenge Kirk’s credentials based on this abuse of “emergency powers?”
From the desk of
cc2k:

9 posted on 09/24/2009 11:20:46 AM PDT by cc2k (Are you better off today than you were $4,000,000,000,000 ago?)
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To: raccoonradio

Repubs said they’d file suit and it looks like they are, good for them.


10 posted on 09/24/2009 11:21:30 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Uncle Ike

“The Mass. courts are pretty left-leaning, though, aren’t they??”

They lean to the left like Mt. Everest is high.


11 posted on 09/24/2009 11:21:54 AM PDT by ScottinVA (This Revolution will be peaceful if possible; other than peaceful if necessary.)
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To: raccoonradio
did not have the constitutional authority to do that.

They are talking about MA law here...

How about US Law, as in the US Constitution?

Article 1, section 9: "NO State Shall... pass ANY ex-post facto law"

Unless of course, MA is an exception to "NO STATE" and the state succession law, already triggered by the swimmer's death, is an exception to "ANY... law".

12 posted on 09/24/2009 11:22:02 AM PDT by C210N (A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
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To: raccoonradio; yongin; ZULU; Norman Bates; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; Al B.; ...

must be state court
send lawyers, guns, & money


13 posted on 09/24/2009 11:22:34 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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To: cc2k

Once Kirk is sworn in the game is over.

Too little too late I think.


14 posted on 09/24/2009 11:22:52 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: OldDeckHand

“Bill, we need to be represented by two senators. It’s an emergency.”

“Right you are, gov.” (signs “emergency” letter)

Emergency, yet for a yr and a half MA did just fine (well
kinda) with only one senator, pretty much.


15 posted on 09/24/2009 11:23:12 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: C210N

” the state succession law, already triggered by the swimmer’s death, “

Hmmmmm....

Wonder if ‘Bush v. Gore’ which held, in part, that (paraphrasing) ya can’t change the rules in the middle of an election count, would apply as a precedent...

Any lawyers out there???


16 posted on 09/24/2009 11:25:43 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: raccoonradio

YES! Thank G*d someone had the courage and sense to do this. This is so brazen the Equal Protection issues are quite obvious.


17 posted on 09/24/2009 11:26:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Guns and money to MA? They’d be confiscated no doubt!


18 posted on 09/24/2009 11:26:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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19 posted on 09/24/2009 11:27:47 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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It’s odd that the MA GOP, which failed to oppose EMK in 2006, now says it is concerned about legalities. Well, guess they have to do soemthing to occupy their time.


20 posted on 09/24/2009 11:29:09 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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