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Judge strikes down Wis. law limiting union rights
Associated Press ^ | Sep 14, 2012, 5:51 PM EDT | SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press

Posted on 09/14/2012 3:05:15 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

A Wisconsin judge has struck down the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers.

Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled Friday that the law violates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null...

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It was not clear if the ruling means the law is immediately suspended.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2012; collectivebargaining; corruption; danecountywisconsin; democrats; juancolas; liberalfascism; unioncorruption; unionownedjudge; unions; unionthugs; wisconsinshowdown
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To: Hunton Peck

I sense a civil war brewing.


41 posted on 09/14/2012 4:28:47 PM PDT by Taggart_D
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To: rcrngroup

Because you folks who want governors to tell courts they are going to just ignore their rulings, don’t know what the hell you are talking about.

Other than that, it’s a plausible approach.


42 posted on 09/14/2012 4:29:11 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Longbow1969
This is why no serious conservative can sit out elections or waste their votes on 3rd party’s or vanity write-in efforts - especially when it comes to any elected office that has anything to do with nominating or approving judges.

That's funny, considering the fact that the Republican nominee is a hardcore judicial supremacist, whose record of appointments to the bench in Massachusetts was uniformly liberal.

43 posted on 09/14/2012 4:31:13 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("The opposite of compromise is character." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Hunton Peck

I sincerely doubt the unions will be found to have a federal Constitutional right to do whatever they want in Wisconsin, regardless of the legilature, governor, or voters.

I’ve been around lots of state judges and yeah, their level of political corruption, and just plain corruption, can be disgusting.

In fact I’ve seen this infect federal courts which used to be a cut above.


44 posted on 09/14/2012 4:31:33 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Longbow1969

Damn Straight!


45 posted on 09/14/2012 4:48:22 PM PDT by Ladysmith (The evil that's happening in this country is the cancer of socialism...It kills the human spirit.)
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To: SierraWasp

Hey Waspman, here we are again, with a new war, but a justifiable battle that needs to be waged..

This may be a war that these cretins wish they hadn’t started, AGAIN.. This time we should go for the jugular, and challenge the legality of public unions as a concept..

If an employee of the people can lobby, and intimidate their employer with the threat of paralyzing the needed service, where is the justification for having the service be a public run enterprise.. Just privatize the entire project..

Render government employees and Unions unneeded and therefore, unnecessary..


46 posted on 09/14/2012 4:53:16 PM PDT by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: EternalVigilance

That is funny...considering that once again you are lying 3rd party bot

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2867160/posts


47 posted on 09/14/2012 4:58:19 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: EternalVigilance
That's funny, considering the fact that the Republican nominee is a hardcore judicial supremacist, whose record of appointments to the bench in Massachusetts was uniformly liberal.

Truth is, no matter how bad Romney's court nominations are (and let's just assume they'll suck), they are going to be better than Obama's. And the odds are Willard will use court nominations much like past presidents and, at least at the circuit and appeals level, throw bones to the base and nominate decent candidates.

Were it 4-3 liberal in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, this ridiculous Dane county judge's ruling would probably stand. Thankfully in this particular case, the court judges are elected by the people and the previous Democrat governor and legislature didn't get to shape it.

Saying all that, would I prefer your judicial picks to Romney's? Sure, you might nominate some great conservative jurists. I'd also prefer my neighbor's court nominees to Romney's - and my uncles, and my Dad's, etc. The problem is none of you won the GOP nomination for President, so none of you have even the slightest chance of being elected President. So in the real world, given a choice between the 2 candidates that can actually win, Romney is the best option where court nominations are concerned. And, in general, Republicans are almost always going to appoint better judges than Democrats.

48 posted on 09/14/2012 5:01:43 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Williams

We gonna change your screen name to billybuzzkill...


49 posted on 09/14/2012 5:12:22 PM PDT by onona (This space for rent....cheep)
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To: Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; Wisconsinlady; JPG; bushwon; ...

Wisconsin — Dane Co. Judge strikes down Walker collective bargaining law — it’s WAR

FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.


50 posted on 09/14/2012 5:12:28 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (Joe Biden is reported to be seeking asylum in a foreign country so he does not have to debate Ryan.)
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To: Longbow1969

The only reason I can’t win is because of the folks like yourself who say you’re conservatives but insist on supporting a flaming liberal.

If you all turned around tomorrow I’d win easily.

We don’t even need a majority to prevail. All we need is a plurality of one vote in each state.


51 posted on 09/14/2012 5:15:10 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("The opposite of compromise is character." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Hunton Peck

I would bet a billion dollars that the WIS supreme court ALREADY heard this case. Didn’t they?


52 posted on 09/14/2012 5:19:06 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: MNJohnnie
Romney's Spotty Record on Judicial Appointments - 9 GOP Judges out of 36

You think that's making your case? LOL...

Remember, even the nine Republicans were Romney Republicans.

So, you've made my point. Thanks.

53 posted on 09/14/2012 5:20:22 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("The opposite of compromise is character." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: EternalVigilance

Knock it off Eternal, you’re not going to be President. These are deadly serious days and we don’t have time for silly vanity campaigns that will never amount to anything.


54 posted on 09/14/2012 5:21:42 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: EternalVigilance

You don’t like your lies being pointed out, you can stop lying. Otherwise, get use to it.


55 posted on 09/14/2012 5:22:57 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

I hear ya. But are getting close to where elections will no longer become winnable anyway. With a mature leftist MSM propaganda machine, 47% not paying taxes, illegals and dead voters we are screwed.

At some point our role will change from a conservative voting block to a counter-revolutionary resistance focused on mucking up the machine


56 posted on 09/14/2012 5:32:54 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Doctor 2Brains

I could well be wrong, but I believe the case decided by the WSC had to do with procedural issues surrounding Act 10’s passage by the legislature, not with the substance of the law.


57 posted on 09/14/2012 5:34:44 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (Life, liberty, property, and the means to defend them.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I’ve been used to your defense of liberal Republicans for a long time.


58 posted on 09/14/2012 5:43:05 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("The opposite of compromise is character." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Walker is on Mark Levin now. He is going to appeal


59 posted on 09/14/2012 5:43:05 PM PDT by katiedidit1 (Constitutionalist..period)
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To: SierraWasp

Chicago just settled the teacher’s strike. I wonder who took who to the cleaners. As Wisconsin and Indiana continue to move away from union political control Illinois will pay dearly.


60 posted on 09/14/2012 5:43:23 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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