[Hardastarboard]

Some asshole judge in Kansas (in the 90's?) decided that a school district's poor results were discriminatory and due to under funding, so took it over, raised taxes by judicial fiat, told the school district what to do, spent something like a billion dollars of tax payer money, and ultimately MADE THE SITUATION WORSE (real surprise there, huh?).

The specifics escape me, but the generalities above are, in outline true. Talk about extra constitutional - that judge's skeleton should STILL be swinging from a rope. And the public officials who let him get away with it should be, too, for that matter.

[Jacquerie]

I remember that case. Judge Sands(?) ordered the legislature to raise taxes to build a state of the art high school, which did nothing to boost minority test scores.

It was the PERFECT case to test the limits of judicial power.

The legislature should have ignored the ruling, and impeached him for usurping the taxing power of the legislature.