Posted on 07/03/2019 3:02:23 PM PDT by NRx
ALASKA, July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has a message for the state’s Supreme Court: If you’re going to force taxpayers to fund abortions, that money is coming out of your budget.
The Alaska Supreme Court has continually ruled that the state must fund abortions, so Dunleavy slashed the amount it has been spending on the deadly practice from the state judiciary’s budget.
Via a line-item veto, Dunleavy reduced the budget of the state’s courts by $334,700 – the amount of public money spent on elective abortions annually.
“The Legislative and Executive Branch are opposed to state-funded elective abortions; the only branch of government that insists on state-funded elective abortions is the Supreme Court,” the governor’s office explained of its fiscal year 2020 budget. “The annual cost of elective abortions is reflected by this reduction.”
“The Federal Government also prohibits any federal funds paying for elective abortions,” the document notes.
“The Alaska Supreme Court has a long history of extremist rulings on abortion,” Alaska Family Action (AFA), a division of the Alaska Family Council, posted on Facebook when Dunleavy finalized the budget. “But until today, they never suffered any real consequences for it. Now they will start feeling the pain of their own arrogance. Every dollar the state spends on killing unborn children will be cut from their budget.”
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Financial equivalent of impeachment.
Brilliant!
About time...these courts are WAY out of line.
Maybe this will only be the start of a pushback.
Governments shouldn’t be supporting the idea that any pregnancy is inherently evil.
The Lefties on Twitter are soiling themselves over this...
Big ol clanking brass balls...like a boss!
Shows the value of a line item veto and a governor with a set....
HA!!!
the judiciary is not supposed to be allocating public tax funds anyway, that’s the job of the legislature...
They will find the cuts unconstitutional and mandate an increased budget.
They have gotten away with it in other States.
Abort the Court (fiscally, of course)
Winning!
I hope it is a start. Our judicial system is so unbalanced.
true
That’s pretty funny. You legislate from the bench, you pay for it.
But, don’t they have standing to slap that down? Or, a pet political group to protest it to them on their behalf? Talk about a conflict, haha.
Way to Go!!!!!
I like this fellow.
The Alaska Supreme Court majority should be impeached and convicted, then tried, convicted, sentenced, and publicly hanged for genocidal murder, crimes against humanity, and treason.
Or better yet, they'll stop holding trials and just let all accused felons go free.
Out of curiosity, who assigns which judge to a federal judicial district? Can that entity also take a judge from one judicial district and place it into a district that is lacking one or more judges? If this is a possibility, it would seem that some of the judges yanked out of their little fiefdoms, and placed into a lonely outpost like maybe Fairbanks, Alaska. It might bring some sanity to their way of thinking. If this is possible, it probably wouldn’t take very many reassignments to convince the other judges that they should follow the law instead of their presumed version of the law.
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