Clinton appointed judge. Also ruled against Tennessee on Same Sex Marriage so its not her first rodeo at just making up case law.
Posted on 10/10/2017 2:00:42 PM PDT by JP1201
A federal judge has reinstated the drivers' licenses of two Tennessee residents, thanks to a class action lawsuit challenging the state's practice of suspending licenses for unpaid traffic fines. The suit is still ongoing, but the reinstatement is a good sign; groups representing the plaintiffs say this may be the first court decision of its kind.
Attorneys for Civil Rights Corps, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, Just City, and the law firm Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz filed the federal suit in September on behalf of what they say are more than a quarter of a million Tennessee residents whose licenses were suspended for unpaid traffic fines. These suspensions occur, the lawsuit says, without notifications or consideration of ability to pay, violating the Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses.
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Okay, none of us like to get tickets. But this Judge is a constitutional ignoramus. He is stomping all over Federalism here like he was Godzilla.
IN Pennsylvania driving is a privilege not a right.
My first guess was Corker and Lamar Alexander.
They do that in CA to legitimate citizens, then CA turns around gives criminals who entered the country illegally, valid driver licenses.
What a colossal farce.
250,000 people with outstanding tickets...
Wow. Those usually go to a bench warrant if they are not taken care of.
And the last!
What are they going to do, jail 250,000 Tennesseans? Scary numbers indeed.
The Drivers License is NOT a right, it is a privilege
It requires Knowledge of Law and proper driving techniques
as well as continuing evidence of suitability to continue driving.
The Drivers License is state issued and state maintained.
Multiple Driving Violations are an indication of in-suitability.
Not accepting punishment for violations,
without contesting in court, is further evidence
The Federal Government should butt out
Marshals should have been going out and touching these people.
Someone fell down on the job here.
Imagine the losses for the state in revenue.
If each of them owed just $20 dollars, that would be five million in fines outstanding. It could be more like $100 per. too.
We may be talking something like $25 million here.
Insanity.
They didn’t pay the fines they lost their license until they did.
Incarceration or indentured servitude is the only punishment left.
Is that what these people want?
Of damn near everything IMHO.
I would like to see driving on the public roads argued as a right, under the ninth and tenth amendments.
What jurisdiction does a federal judge have in state and local traffic cases?
Fake News and now Fake Judges
And I’m trying to imagine what the cost would be to capture, process, jail, incarcerate, feed and provide medical for 250,000 people...Gezzz
Clinton appointed judge. Also ruled against Tennessee on Same Sex Marriage so its not her first rodeo at just making up case law.
If this is the case, as this judge has said, why even ticket anybody if they know they don’t have to pay the fine?
I've always had a problem with that concept.
Agreed. All of these 'driving is a privilege' people are a bunch of boot lickers.
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