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Posted on 04/15/2011 6:55:33 AM PDT by gusopol3
In her ruling, Sumi distinguished between the county’s lawsuit and another lawsuit brought by Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne alleging legislators’ passage of the measure violated the state’s open meetings law. That lawsuit is also pending before Sumi.
“The answers are straightforward: the district attorney has explicit statutory authority to enforce the open meetings law; Dane County does not,” Sumi wrote.
She added that state statutes grant circuit courts authority to void actions taken in violation of the open meetings law and to issue injunctions but does not give the court the authority to declare state laws unconstitutional.
(Excerpt) Read more at host.madison.com ...
If they can sue in this capacity, can they also be individually sued for official acts?
That's the sort of thing that can happen when you mess with the legislature!
I’m sure Eric Holder will have a nice, comfortable place for her somewhere—it’s unlikely it will have bars on the windows, unfortunately.
The WI legislature should just re-pass the law. Sheesh.
Eric himself may well be looking back over the recently passed winter imagining what it will be like under the 2012 fiscal year budget where DOJ has NO HEAT and NO WATER, and the 9th Circuit is being moved to Nome Alaska!
On the other hand they didn't really need to do that since the legislature had earlier announced that it was in session (in open meeting parlance) and business would be conducted.
That's all they had to do. BTW, the Wisconsin Constitution requires the legislative houses to MAKE THEIR OWN RULES ~ so there you have it. Nothing they do there is limited by the open meeting law. That was just Democrat propaganda.
This will be tied up in Wisconsin courts for months or years if the Wisconsin Supreme Court doesn’t step in and slap these union supported liberal judges down.
Didn’t we just have an election to make sure the Wisconsin Supreme Court stays in conservative hands? When are they going to weigh in on this and slap these lefty activist judges down?
That's good information and all, but this is just a delaying game for the leftists. They are just trying to tie this up in courts for months or years in order buy time.
The appeals court apparently punted to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court doesn't seem ready to slap Sumi down.
The end result so far is that this legislation is not in effect and may not be for quite some time. Maybe the Supreme Court is just waiting for this past Prosser/Kloppenburg election to finally be called in favor or Prosser? If not that, what on earth are they waiting for?
The unions know that. Everybody knows that. The judge even figured out that Dane County had no authority in the matters before her.
“Didn’t we just have an election to make sure the Wisconsin Supreme Court stays in conservative hands? “
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Waukesha-WI-Follies-97-6-in-General_News-110415-398.html
That ain’t over yet either. If the Democrats really want to open the can of worms of late reporting and anomolously high turnout.
Please show me where the law is in effect. The last I saw Sumi declared (3 times) it could NOT be put into effect and as best I can tell the collective bargaining and the end to union auto paycheck deductions are absolutely NOT in effect.
Further, the Walker administration has asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to lift Sumi's injunction and so far it has not done so.
Pretty sure your linking to a bunch of liberal conspiracy theories. The Wisconsin Bureau of Elections (which is loaded with Democrats) has not found anything wrong with Waukesha's election results.
The left is simply trying to confuse things and create an illusion of corruption in order to cast a doubt on Prosser's victory. They can not accept that they lost, so they are trying to undermine the victor and keep their base motivated.
The other suit is different. It doesn't seek to nullify the law but to inflict punishment on somebody ~ she didn't do anything there ~ but I suspect the higher level courts might.
I do hope you’re right; earlier this AM, I found articles from Forbes on line and , I believe Wisc. St. Journal by googling “Prosser,” but those have dropped on the inventory. Here’s a radio station report, though :http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2011/apr/15/election-officials-investigate-waukesha-co-voting-/
Look, I don't know what your arguing with me about. The budget repair bill with the collective bargaining changes and the end to union dues paycheck auto deductions is NOT in effect. I repeat, it is NOT in effect.
The Walker administration has been appealing to the Wisconsin Supreme court to vacate Sumi's injunction and take up the matter. So far, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has not done so.
The law is NOT in effect. Period.
Here are articles explaining what the Walker Administration has been trying to do. They are appealing to the Wisconsin Supreme court to stop Sumi from blocking this law.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/119728874.html
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/119434894.html,/i>
I think this is Cloward-Piven at work.
This is stuff the leftist Daily KOS drummed up. Nickolaus has already explained why these discrepancies exist and it is not some sinister voter fraud scheme. The Democrats know this is nonsense, they are just trying to make this election look sinister and shady in effort to delegitimize Prossner's victory.
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