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Alaska gov to state Supreme Court: The abortion funding you mandated is coming from your budget
LifeSite News ^ | 07-01-2019 | Claire Chretien

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: abortion; alaska; prolife
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To: NRx

Financial equivalent of impeachment.


21 posted on 07/03/2019 3:24:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: NRx

Brilliant!


22 posted on 07/03/2019 3:24:51 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: NRx

About time...these courts are WAY out of line.


23 posted on 07/03/2019 3:25:53 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome

Maybe this will only be the start of a pushback.

Governments shouldn’t be supporting the idea that any pregnancy is inherently evil.


24 posted on 07/03/2019 3:28:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: NRx

The Lefties on Twitter are soiling themselves over this...


25 posted on 07/03/2019 3:29:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We chose Trump.)
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To: NRx

Big ol clanking brass balls...like a boss!


26 posted on 07/03/2019 3:33:03 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: NRx

Shows the value of a line item veto and a governor with a set....


27 posted on 07/03/2019 3:34:55 PM PDT by CMSMC
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To: NRx

HA!!!

the judiciary is not supposed to be allocating public tax funds anyway, that’s the job of the legislature...


28 posted on 07/03/2019 3:37:07 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: NRx

They will find the cuts unconstitutional and mandate an increased budget.


29 posted on 07/03/2019 3:37:43 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: faithhopecharity

They have gotten away with it in other States.


30 posted on 07/03/2019 3:39:24 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: NRx

Abort the Court (fiscally, of course)


31 posted on 07/03/2019 3:40:00 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#Dregs #DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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To: NRx

Winning!


32 posted on 07/03/2019 3:41:09 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I hope it is a start. Our judicial system is so unbalanced.


33 posted on 07/03/2019 3:41:30 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: dangerdoc

true


34 posted on 07/03/2019 3:59:23 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: reasonisfaith

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.


35 posted on 07/03/2019 4:03:15 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Starboard

Way to Go!!!!!


36 posted on 07/03/2019 4:11:41 PM PDT by Postman (The flies seek our domestic enemies.....but ain't no flies on DJT....MAGA)
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To: NRx

I like this fellow.


37 posted on 07/03/2019 4:12:53 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: reasonisfaith
"The Alaska Supreme Court has continually ruled that the state must fund abortions"

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.

38 posted on 07/03/2019 4:13:46 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: VanDeKoik
Let them make rulings from a card table wearing a black table cloth in the multi-purpose room, and clear them out in time for senior bingo.

Or better yet, they'll stop holding trials and just let all accused felons go free.

39 posted on 07/03/2019 4:17:53 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Rashputin

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.


40 posted on 07/03/2019 4:25:39 PM PDT by FrodoBaggins
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