Posted on 03/19/2011 6:20:22 AM PDT by BillKneer
nce again the left shows us that “We the People” and the rule of law mean nothing. The socialist County Court Judge Maryann Sumi is doing what the left-wing judicial branch does best; circumventing the will of the people by legislating from the bench.
Politico reported that Judge Maryann Sumi temporarily halted Wisconsin’s union law.Dane County Court Judge Maryann Sumi issued the order — which prevents Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug LaFollette from publishing the collective bargaining law until she could rule on the case — in response to a complaint brought by the county district attorney on behalf of several public officials who claim Republicans violated the state’s open-meeting law by pushing the legislation through unlawfully.
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You can’t get a job in government today if you are not a socialist.
Judge Sumi will get smacked down by the appeals court. Up hers!
The curious step that the Republicans could take....walk back in and start the process all over. Course, this would mean that fourteen Democratic state senators have to pack up a bag in a hurry...hustle off to a Illinois water-park resort, and eat mostly pizza for four weeks.
It would not shock me if this suddenly occurred in June and charged up the public again within the state. The positive side is that this resort in Illinois might make a fair amount of profit for 2011.
Nothing but a stalling tactic.
Give notice and do it again.
From what I understand of it, is that this activist “judge” made a ruling that is 100% off base and thus without merit.
SOP for these people.
But you have to admit, she has a perfect last name for a lawyer.
I wouldn’t even waste time with an appeal.
Give notice and do it again.
There is a HUGE election for the WI State Supreme Court in a couple of weeks, as Belling said yesterday (4P-7P EDT available on I Heart Radio WISN) if you don’t vote you aren’t a true conservative!! (Belling also has podcasts of his show available at his website Belling.com)
I heard this morning that the Republics plan to just pass it again, this time with the dems there.
I had to sit and listen to a judge lecture me on the evils of judicial elections Thursday. No point in arguing since I had two cases in front of him that day. And this is probably the most conservative judge in my county. sigh.
Has the Governor sent out the layoff notices yet?
In TN they don’t have to list their party and that creates BIG issues for conservative voters. Unless you know for sure what party they are from best to vote NO on retaining them. They count on our ignorance of their party to stay in office.
This looks like an opportunity for a two-fer. The Governor can now layoff all the idiot teachers and then get the bill back after the appeal.
This would be a great time for new legislation simply banning collective bargaining for all public employees. The Commie Unions have to see this coming.
Why can’t the legislature post it, wait 24 hours and bring it up for a vote again. Done deal. Why screw around with some county court?
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.
For the Judiciary to have the authority to rule on the procedures used in a legislature seems completely unprecedented.
I don't know the Wisconsin Constitution, but for the federal courts, the Justice Department would lack standing and the court would lack authority to rule.
Any lawyers out there know of any precedents or the Wisconsin Constituion?
This was not about the "will of the people" but rather the Constitutional legislative process in WI.
Were it about the "will of the people" the myriad demonstrations at the Capitol of Madison would reveal that democracy, in it's purest form, would have turned WI into a socialist state.
Article IV.
Rules; contempts; expulsion. SECTION 8. Each house may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish for contempt and disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two− thirds of all the members elected, expel a member; but no member shall be expelled a second time for the same cause.
This case should go nowhere.
If it were the people's will to take your guns, for example.
“It seems to me” that it is reasonable to cut off all state funding to her court including herself, her secretary, bailiff, and everyone else that works in her court.
After all, “It seems to me” the only “fair thing” to do.Of course we all know the “It seems to me” is the first fall back position the activist judges use when they discover that their feelings don't match reality.
BTW - since she has stopped the law, the Governor of Wisconsin needs to send out the layoff notices and this time state that this action is being taken because “IT seems to..” a judge that her feelings trumped the state legislature.
IMHO judges act the way they have because no one has called them on it. They need to learn that their blacks robes are made of cloth not bullet and opinion proof steal.
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