Judge Blocks Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Law…Again
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ruled that there should be no further implementation of a law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights for public workers.
Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said Tuesday that her earlier restraining order saying the law shouldn’t be enacted had either been ignored or misinterpreted.
Sumi stopped short of saying the law was not already in effect. She says she will take more testimony on that issue.
The Legislative Reference Bureau posted the law on a legislative website Friday, leading Gov. Scott Walker’s administration to declare the law was in effect.
Sumi revised her original March temporary restraining order blocking the secretary of state from publishing the law, which is typically the last step before it becomes effective.
A Wisconsin judge weighed arguments Tuesday about whether an order she issued intended to temporarily block the state’s divisive new collective bargaining law was still in place, or whether Republican leaders had again outmaneuvered their opponents by using a legal loophole to achieve their goals.
During a hearing into one of several lawsuits challenging the legitimacy of Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s law, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi listened to attorneys for the state argue that it took effect on Saturday because a state office unexpectedly published it online Friday despite Sumi‘s order barring the secretary of state from publishing it in the state’s official newspaper – typically the last step before a law takes effect.
Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette, Dane County Democratic District Attorney Ismael Ozanne – the plaintiff in the lawsuit being heard Tuesday – and the head of the office that posted the story contend that it did not become law because La Follette had not had it published.
Sumi had blocked off the rest of Tuesday and all day Friday to hear arguments, and was expected to rule afterward. Whether she decides it did or didn’t become law on Saturday, the law’s legitimacy will likely be decided by the state Supreme Court, which has not indicated whether it would take up an appeals court’s request to hear the case.
If Sumi sides with the Republican attorney general’s office, it would mark the second time the Republican lawmakers used a loophole to advance the law, which would strip most public workers of collective bargaining rights and which inspired large pro-union protests in and around the state Capitol. After weeks of stalemate, Republican senators passed the law after finding a way to vote on it without their Democratic colleagues, who had fled the state to deny a quorum.
Walker, whose refusal to bend on the collective bargaining issue earned him accolades among many conservatives and condemnation from Democrats and labor unions, was moving forward as if the law took effect. In addition to the collective bargaining issue, the law would require all public workers except police and firefighters to pay more for their health and pension plans, in what would amount to an 8 percent pay cut, on average.
The governor’s top aide, Mike Huebsch, said Monday that the administration was preparing a computer program that would account for the new deductions and halt deductions of union dues from state workers’ paychecks, starting April 21. He said the Department of Administration would stop that work if a court determined the law didn’t take effect Saturday.
In a court filing Monday night, Ozanne asked Sumi to declare the statute had not become law by being posted online. He wrote that the secretary of state and the reference bureau must work in tandem to publish laws, and that one can’t act alone.
“Mere electronic posting, absent the other steps, particularly the involvement of the secretary of state … is itself meaningless and has no legal effect,” wrote Ozanne, whose lawsuit contends that the Senate violated Wisconsin‘s open meetings statute because it didn’t give the public enough prior notice before voting on the reconfigured law.
The attorney general‘s office had asked an appeals court to overturn Sumi’s restraining order, but asked that court on Monday to withdraw the appeal and asked Sumi to cancel Tuesday’s hearing because it believes the law took effect, making it a moot point. The appeals court denied the state’s request Tuesday, saying it had already asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case, and is waiting to hear back.
Steve Miller, the head of the Legislative Reference Bureau, which posted the law online, testified Tuesday that as far as he knew, his office had never published a law without first getting a specific date from the secretary of state in his 12 years there. He said he doesn‘t think his office’s posting of the statute made it law, saying that only happens once the secretary of state publishes a public notice in the state’s official newspaper.
But he said he believes his office is legally required to publish laws within 10 days, even without a hard date, and that he doesn’t believe the restraining order extended to his agency.
“I still think the duty (to publish within 10 days) is independent,” Miller said.
Given the difference of opinions, the Wisconsin Association of School Boards told districts that are still negotiating with teachers not to take any official action until the courts resolve the dispute.
Walker has proposed more than $1 billion in cuts to schools, counties and local governments in his budget that would take effect in July. He has argued that the union concessions are needed to help make up for his proposed aid cuts.
Democrats and the unions contend that Walker’s attack on collective bargaining was politically motivated attempt to severely weaken the unions, which tend to vote Democrat.
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Comments (425)
mickrussom
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:53pmThrow this rat vermin traitor in JAIL. Get a supreme court WRIT OF MANDAMUS or JAIL THIS TRAITOR. This rat vermin PIG FACED traitor Maryann Sumi is a traitor and a felon and evil and against truth, freedom, constitution, liberty and country. JAIL HER NOW.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:54pmTell us how you really feel!
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:12pmJail a judge? How long have you been in the US? You can’t jail a judge, the judge jails you. At most, after a long, long, expensive, and almost impossible to win campain you might her re-moved from the bench.
Report Post »Best bet however, is to not elect her next time.
FrankSpeak
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:13pmJail her or nail!
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:05amYou wrote this from prison, didn’t you.
Report Post »thewatchdog
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:56pmThumbs up! :-)
Report Post »RushEcho dot org
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:51pmShe said that Republicans gave no notice, hence her ruling:
Report Post »(1) Republicans did give notice;
(2) They were not required to.
Her first ruling was bogus. She should be ignored and recalled.
EqualJustice
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:09amTOO LATE! It’s already the law and it was all legal sooooo judgie will lose in the end. :)
Report Post »anniyan428
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:24pmActually according to the Open Meetings Law (If you had actually bothered to read it) did not give adequate notice (24 hours) because the calling was not an emergency. Yes they were required too give notice. You should try doing some research before spewing unfiltered and ill-researched lies. This judge is not ruling on the law itself, just on whether the way it was passed was legal. Idiot
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:51pmIgnore this sorry County judge. She is biased.
She kind of looks like Incompitano too, scary.
Report Post »FrankSpeak
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:11pmI bet she has a bottle under the bench!
Report Post »jim
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:50pmIncluding intimidation at polling places, racial discrimination and illegal immigration, how many laws have Holder/Obama OPENLY refused to uphold?? They only enforce the laws they like. Walker’s law should be implemented regardless. It’s either that or cut 15,000 jobs to help make Wisconsin solvent… but the Wisconsin teachers’ union is clinging to that $800,000 Viagra perk, among others, they got with collective bargaining. Unions need to grow a brain and a conscience, not a little general.
Report Post »RushEcho dot org
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:49pmHer ruling was inaccurate .!.
Report Post »ThomRaasio
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:49pmWomen Judges and Justice…..a TOTAL OXYMORON!!!!
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:37pmAlmost makes a guy wanna “stop the suffrage”, ya know??? LOL
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:04amThere you go, that’s the conservative philosophy we know and love. Keep ‘em in the kitchen.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:49pmSeems to me there might be an easier way, now that the Democrats (who ran away and hid like kindergartners ) are back, just have a re- vote. Law passes and MUST be published, done deal.
But this time don’t tell the socialist democrats what your going to do, just make shure they are all there and spring it on them, no noticed needed if all are present.
Thanks to http://www.new zeal/ blogspot.com for reveling a GREAT expose on the specifics of the UN/ globalist governance plan……..it’s a great view, highly recomended!
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:46pm“Those who judge will be judged the most” Better you than me, Sumi.
Report Post »Buck_Ofama
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:45pmDear Judge Maryann Sumi,
Come make us stop enforcing the law.
Ignore this judge. She is prejudiced and has no power except what the state provides.
Report Post »Hug
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:45pmDidn’t we already learn that this Judge should have refused to rule on this case for conflicting interest?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:45pmWe are not a constitutional republic any longer. No matter what the legislative branch of our government decides by majority vote by elected officials, the outcome is determined by ONE judge.
Report Post »We are doomed as a free republic!
trolltrainer
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:01pmyep… :-(
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:54pmHow about a Tea Party rally in front of her house for a few weeks.
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:56pmI’ll bring the drums, we can smoke pot and act like moronic hippies and trash the place, that should get us what we want……
Report Post »/sarc off
Lucy Larue
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:05pmRATIONALMAN,
Report Post »She is an Alinskyite. There are no rules but her rules.
I want to know what the next step is for the Governor.
I want SUMI(pronounced Sue Me, how ironic) impeached. Can that be done?
Fastsam
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:44pmWhen can we get on with splitting the 50 states up and let the left wing liberals have twenty five so we can build the country back to where it needs to be.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:51pmNever.
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:42amNO.
You’re saying all the blood shed in the Revolution and Civil War is good for nothing???
Come on, we must fight back even if it’s a civil war-type scenario. We will win. The US will survive with its Constitution intact as law of the land. Bet on it.
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:44pmSUMI’S SON WORKS FOR THE LABOR UNIONS.
Why isn’t this worthy of being reported anywhere?
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:48pmPlease, some more info…
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:06pmgoogle it…
http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/03/21/wisconsin-judge-maryann-sumi-her-seiu-afl-cio-political-operative-son/
Report Post »jasmer
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:38amIt is being reported – it’s just that some coverage is mainstream-blessed, while other is mainstream-cursed.
Guess which of the two contains far more legitimacy?
http://biggovernment.com/mtrackers/2011/03/22/judge-sumis-husband-donated-to-three-of-badger-14/
But no, don’t worry your pretty little head; go back to sleep, or watch Survivor/Dancing with the Stars/The Simpsons.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:44pmDane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi is being extreme.
Report Post »Yes. Extreme describes her well. She is an extremist activist judge. Extreme is dangerous. Not extreme is good.
Chuck, how did I do?
Edct
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:43pmAgain, can you spell political prostitute? You can find her outside the communist union buillding walking the streets looking for business.
Report Post »delhoghe
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:58pm“ Communist union” ?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:07amYes, it’s spelled “P R O S S E R”
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:24pmDo you live in Wisconsin Tifosa?
Report Post »ANewActivist
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:43pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:54pmWhy do we even have a legislative branch of government?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:16pmHow come the ME gets to oust their tyrants, but we are stuck with Obama?
Report Post »ANewActivist
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:43pmSo… neither election results or the law make any difference to the dems.
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:23pmThat just about sums it up!
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:43pmYour blocking the law means what to us. You have no athority.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:30pmJudges have no authority? Oh I see, only when it suits you I guess.
Report Post »steve-in-pa
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:41pmTake a page out of obama’s book and ignore the courts.
Report Post »maryann72961
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:41pmok, now that all the democrates are back, bring the original bill back to the senate for a vote, and move forward with both bills.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:47pmYou just make too much sense, MaryAnn!………And I like it!
Report Post »seaninsjca
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:57pmExactly MaryAnn. I‘ve wondered why they haven’t done this since the Dems came back.
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:37pmJust make sure the doors are locked before the Dems know about it.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:39pmWhy cater to the losers? Screw that!
The vote occurred and the law was passed.
Next!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:33pmIt doesn’t matter what law the repubs pass,it could be a bill stating thursday follows wednesday…….the dems will file their pathetic little injunctions and block it in court. This one was clean, they just need to keep it. This will be a long two years untill we finish the housecleaning.
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:02am338lapdance . . . now now, you know it‘s women’s work to do the housecleaning. Everybody knows that. (See that, how I used my Bill O’Reilly/Fox News tactic of “you know that”? They use it almost as much as “Some people say . . . “)
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:24amRE-VOTE!!! (Do you ask yourself why they don’t?)
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:23pmIts a waste of time to re vote. Judge Sue Me will just find another reason to block it. Its what they do they’re liberals.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:40pmGood God that is one ugly judge…
Report Post »jarheadone
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:47pmAll Liberal women are ugly, that’s why they are Liberals!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:55pmOkay this will probably get pulled but .. she looks like Nathan Lane in drag.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:55pmSorry Nathan!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:59pmShe looks like she would be a good match for Jared Lee Loughner, the dude who shot congresswoman Gifford. I will never shake his mugshot from my mind…
Report Post »Prestonian
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:02pmI swear I’ve seen this woman in a Harry Potter movie. She was an uptight government troll trying to take over the school.
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:31pm^ Lol! It is Professor Umbridge!!
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:55pmShe‘s Helen Thomas’s first cousin, hopefully once removed, maybe.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:01pmMethinks she’s a cross between the Cat in the Hat and the Grinch. Are those dandruff flakes in her hair?
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:39pmWhat are the rules for recalling/impeaching judges in Wisconsin??? This out of control activist must go.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:33pmIt’s difficult to be a reasonable mind and make a go of it in Wisconsin. There is a significant percentage of minorities that always vote loser, and a boat load of non-minorities that vote loser for no apparent reason.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:28pmHauschild: “… and a boat load of non-minorities that vote loser for no apparent reason.”
Report Post »——
How do you change stupid…
Strictlybusiness
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:58amIn the west here we call such women,” WHORES, WHOM NEITHER RESPECT THEMSELVES, OR THE LAW.” We The American people are at WAR with Communism, and extreme social radicals. They have infultrated our Government, Our work places, Our churchs, and worse of all, Our schools where we send our children, as we have for 236 years to learn the 3 R’s but also to learn the history and culture of THIS, THE GREATEST NATION EVER ON THE FACE OF GODS CREATION. We The People MUST see this threat for what it is and organize, and REMOVE THE THREAT, THE EVIL , once and for all. VICTORY or DEATH !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Secessionwaslegal
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:36pmJust ignore her, and proceed anyways. That`s what the FED does with our majority voice.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:41pmDidn`t stop Obammy on Obammycare.
You may proceed with haste.
Report Post »jmmjr49er
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:42pmExactly! Ignore this judge. Wisconsin can use the Obama Admin as its reason. Judge in Florida blocked Obamacare but its still being implimented. This judge should recuse but Democrats don’t do that.
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:53pmCivil war is probably inevitable. These people are going to lose, if they haven’t already lost, and then they are going to turn violent and make a war no matter how peaceful we are.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:27pm@TULSAYEEHAW
Report Post »Is that what Glennie boy told you? And what happens if the dem’s come out in force and vote you out of power – you ok with accepting that outcome?
mattwakulik
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:35pmwhat the heck !!
Report Post »Libertarian
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:04pmJudges have no authority over the legislature. It is called separation of powers. She cannot stop a law, even if it is unlawful. The will of the majority is being served by the ELECTED officials.
That is all.
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:11pmAll they have to do is go in session Wed. and vote for it again. Let’s see if the demwits will run away again!
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:28pm“All they have to do is go in session Wed. and vote for it again. Let’s see if the demwits will run away again!”
It was alluded that they don’t have enough votes anymore.
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:34pmIt was alluded…Wow, that’s big news!
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:40pmIt was alluded…
Ok, then let’s have an up and down vote without the union bought cowardly Dems tucking tail and hiding in a neighboring state eh?
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:42pmWell, riddle me this: Why don’t they just vote for it again? Even the judge offered them that solution but the Republicans declined.
The answer is that they know they don’t have enough votes. Since they would fail on another vote, they know that they’ll have to try and force it into law in court.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:42pmLibertarian
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:04pm
Judges have no authority over the legislature. It is called separation of powers. She cannot stop a law, even if it is unlawful. The will of the majority is being served by the ELECTED officials.
That is all.
Report Post »________________________________________________
Are you really this ignorant, have you never heard of checks and balances. Built into the concept of seperation of powers is the idea each branch serves as a check on the power of the other branches. Another Astro-Turf Tea Partier with no idea of common civics.
kryptonite
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:47pmLesterp: “All they have to do is go in session Wed. and vote for it again.”
Report Post »—
No can do. The protests would be far more violent this time. The Red Roach is fuming ever since he lost the Battle of Madison. That tyrannical narcissist has got so much pent-up anger towards Walker for messing with his unions, it may very well be the reason why he ran and invaded Libya. He would like nothing more than to be given the chance to crush Walker in a conspicuous way.
Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:49pm‘The answer is that they know they don’t have enough votes”
What makes you assume this? Because it was alluded somewhere?
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:49pmEncinom should know about being astroturf.
Report Post »Little red troll, aren’t you cute!!!
TheBattleAxe
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:03pmEncinom, you’re fighting a losing battle. While I applaud your efforts to interject logic into these laughable comments about ‘activist judges’ and similar conservative talking points, it will never work. Logic is a word that the people here simply don’t understand and/or chose to ignore.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:23pm@TheBattleAxe
Report Post »I know its hopeless with the regular Beck fan, who believes the lies feed to him by Fox “News.” Its clear from the comments, that few understand the Constitution or basic civics and are just repeating talking points developed by Luntz and test by Hannity. But, their still needs to be a voice of reason to counter the lies.
Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:23pm^ lol
Report Post »Katayno
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:56pm@Encinom – Unless you live in WI and pay our taxes, kindly butt out!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:28pm@encinom is forcing all of us to endure the “well everyone knows” sidestep of reality. This is something adolescent teens(usually females, but….) do to infer a large coalescence around a position or idea. Sometimes a delusion. Shared delusions are always the best, because they seem to grow. But alas….they are delusion. Until and unless, you start paying txes to the state of Wisconsin, or otherwise have to endure this marxist tyranny, please keep your condescension to yourself/ves.
Report Post »I have more interesting lefty trolls to dis-assemble. And your comments, they aren’t even very original. Sniping at how “stupid” the people whom you are commenting with is just soooooo devastating…..
Your hate and condescension simply nourishes us. It is fun when you imagine a friend and give them a screenname here, but it really just reinforces what everyone has known about you from day one. You Bore Me, please post based on thoughts, principles and logic….or don’t post.
Libertarian
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:05pm@ encinom
“Are you really this ignorant, have you never heard of checks and balances. Built into the concept of seperation of powers is the idea each branch serves as a check on the power of the other branches. Another Astro-Turf Tea Partier with no idea of common civics.”
_________________________________________
Well let me educate you kid.
There were 10 people convicted under the Alien & Sedition laws of 1798. The law was NOT declared unconstitutional by the courts, when Jefferson resided as President he believed the law was unconstitutional. He then freed all those that were persecuted by the laws.
Jefferson said in response to a critic “You seem to think it devolved on the judges to decide on the validity of the sedition law. But nothing in the constitution has given them the right to decide for the executive more than to the executive to decide for them. Both magistrates are equally independent in the sphere of action assigned to them. The judges, believing the law constitutional, had a right to pass a sentence of fine and imprisonment because the power was placed in their hands by the constitution. But the executive, believing the law to be unconstitutional, were bound to remit the execution of it because that power has been confided to them by the constitution”.
The Constitutional Convention delegate Martin Luther said – “A knowledge of mankind and of legislative affairs cannot be presumed to belong in a higher degree to the judges than to the legislature.”
James Madison in 1789 -
“But the great objection drawn from the source to which the last arguments would lead us is that the Legislature itself has no right to expound the Constitution – that wherever its meaning is doubtful, you must leave it to take its course until the Judiciary is called upon the declare its meaning. I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the Judiciary. But I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended that any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers than another in marking out the limits of the powers of the several departments.”
AND
“Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.”
Go read Locke and Montesquieu on separation of powers it is where Madison drew from.
Report Post »Libertarian
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:20pm@ encinom
James Wilson (Supreme Court Justice & Signer of the Constitution said that a president can “refuse to carry into effect an act that violates the constitution”.
Just as a state executive (Mini versions of our republican form of government) can do so.
Hamilton said in the Federalist #78
“The Judiciary .. has NO influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. IT MAY TRULY BE SAID TO HAVE NEITHER FORCE NOR WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.”
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:56pm“encinom ”
Report Post »I notice you can’t get your facts right but, do have to compound it with stupidity too!
One problem at a time!
Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:15amHey Encinom,
Did that smackdown they just gave you leave any marx?
I bet he won’t be back in this thread.
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:33am@ Libertarian
Great job of giving the Prog trolls a history lesson! Fine work, sir!
@ TheRightsOfBilly
“…leave any marX”
LOL!! ROFL!! Love it!!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:16amThey won’t take the vote again for several reasons. Now that they’ve read it, it also contains an elimination of mandatory recycling, and some R’s are sure not to approve that. Plus the sheer numbers of people in the state supporting Walker and the bill have taken a nose-dive. I don’t know if the recalls will work, but neither do they…
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:34am@ENCINOM
na-na na-na-na
you, child, have been busted
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:57pmThe reason they are not going to take the vote again is the fact that the friggin Judge sue me will just block it again. Thats why and nothing more. They HAVE enough votes.
Report Post »tarpon
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:34pmIgnore her lawless acts.
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:40pmLiberals have never really shown an interest in following the law, only to use it for their political ends: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/02/why-obamacare-was-ruled.html The whole point of the ruling was to overrule the Republicans’ legislative accomplishments.
Report Post »Templar Knight
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:43pmOr get another judge to overturn her decision for good.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:43pmWho cares? Obama ignored the judge in FL when he ruled Nazicare unconstitutional, so why should the Governor of WI pay attention to this political hack?
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:48pmThe procedures of the law must be followed, to disregard them and go around the injunction without appealing to the higher state court is to follow and legitimize the path Barack Obama has decided to do from the White House in ignoring and declaring unconstitutional any law he finds objectionable or in his way.
We are a land of law and order, with procedures to make redress be done in the courts, as in the state appealing to their states highest court.
Also, it shows just which justices are on the side of the left, the unions, and the progressives.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:48pmLiberals are on the wrong side of the law, they bribe a judge to rule for them.
Report Post »Dakota
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:48pmWould you please tell her to rule on Obamacare at the same time? Then at least we can be consistent on ignoring all judges from here on out. They are becoming worthless political hacks anyway.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:53pmObama has ignored the FACT that Obamacare has been ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL .. why should WI listen to this “judge” ?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:56pmA Democrat, Liberal Progressive Judge issues a restraining order it should be upheld, but if a conservative judge issues the same it is ignored, What is wrong with this picture
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:58pmAll Activist Judges need to be replaced
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:00pmLol,
yes!
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:10pmSWAMP
Report Post »I think this judge took her
bride a long time ago when
she was a lawrer
Showtime
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:15pmON WHAT GROUNDS did she block it? The legislature followed the state’s Constitution, followed Senate Rules, followed “due process” and has done nothing wrong.
Get a life, Judge, not a bribe!
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:19pmIsnt this some liberal judge that was appointed? Are we learning yet America time for appointments to go bye bye, otherwise state appointments must go through similar process as SCOTUS.
Forget that lets see who she is in contact with, lets find out who she or family does business with. Has she come into any significant amount of money? Has anyone in her family suddenly had a turn in business or their careers etc etc? In other words who is paying this creature off?!
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:28pmObumbler also ignored the judge who lifted the drilling moratorium…
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:29pmClassic!
Why even have friggin’ elections, then, if activist judges disregard the will of the people?
This country has two types of people; and the two are soon going to butt heads and find out which ideology wins out.
Report Post »JCoolman
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:35pmWhen Obama administration stops ignoring the judge in Florida and in Louisiana, then and only then Walker should stop ignoring the judge in Wisconsin.
Oh, by the way…Sumi should be recalled for her lawless, activist rulings from the bench. Its time to hold these people accountable. What Walker is doing is NOT against the law. What Sumi has done IS.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:45pmWho’s the dude in the robe… It looks kinda like Scalia if he was older and needed a hair cut…
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:48pmEncinom: YOU’RE LOSING AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS BUY TIME WITH JUDGES WHO LEAN ON THEIR IDEALOGY. They will be defeated in due time, because the sleeping giant is awake, and very angry. AT YOU.
You and your ilk have been discovered and will be beaten.
Report Post »Run you little red troll, run.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:52pm@Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Report Post »I thought she had a son who works for the union, this should be grounds for appeals or she should have recused herself. This is just shameless, liberal means never having to say you’re sorry, or that you have to play by the rules.
hersey10
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 7:55pmThis judge looks like a woman .
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:00pm@TulsaYeeHaw
I give you a sleep giant has been awoken, but its not the Astro-Turf Tea-Party, the actions by extremist Governors in Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan have awoken the labor movement and have driven the Reagan democrats back home. It is clear from the recall effort in Wisconsin whose side has the upper hand. The Astro-Turf Tea Party is proving themselves to be the house slaves for the Koch Brothers and other DC Insiders, willing to forgo their rights for the few scrapes from the table they recieve.
kryptonite
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:34pmProgessives=Fail: “LOL, that’s a good example of what you get when you respond to the trolls guys Hilarious stuff.”
Report Post »———
True. Pay your union dues, middle class. Look what you got in return this time: puke Obama.
Jaycen
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:35pm…which tend to give money to Democratic campaigns.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:38pmYes hide behind the law when it suits you!!! Florida Federal judge ruled on 26 states to STOP OBAMACARE and they continued to “implement” that garbage!
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:46pmIsn’t SEIU-SEIU-SEIU a call for Hogs to come feed at the trough?
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:48pmHey folks…doing things by the book is no longer going to work against the Progressives. Just ask the Founding Fathers. Quit living in a dream word. The fix is in. Get ready to take the heat and fight if you want your country back. Otherwise the Progressives are going to continue their march all the way to socialism and marxism. Paiful enough yet for ya?
Report Post »Katayno
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 8:53pm@templar knight: Unfortunately…we have an election in WI on Tues. April 5th….between Justice David Prosser(R) and Judge Joanne Koppenburg(D) This is for the WI Supreme Court and if the Republican doesn’t win….Walker’s budget will be kicked to the Supreme Court level and most likely defeated. The Union thugs have sunk millions into this lelction and WI is know for fraudulent voting. One of Scott Walker’s promises if he got elected was to get Voter ID, but it is not a law yet.
Report Post »FrankSpeak
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:00pmLiberal activist judges are marxist revolutionaries……period!
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:04pmSince when can a COUNTY judge overthrow a duly established STATE law? This case should be heard by a State level judge, if any. Her motivation for taking these actions is to support her Union Activist son and has no legal basis. She should be dis-barred for her unlawful actions.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:06pmJudges have NO POWER to enforce the law, only the Governor does and he can simply ignore her order. Scott Walker should just tell the judge to stuff it!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:14pmWe are so far ahead of the dems on this. She has no jurisdiction over this. Doug “I’ll get right on it” LaFollette got his scalp trampled and they are all in tears.Too Bad, So Sad. These are symbolic actions meant to keep the base fired up. And since we laugh at them to their faces about this…..it ain’t workin real well right now. You just keep filing your silly injunctions, and we will do the will of the people.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:46pmThis case was settled and done according to law. I am going to be like Farakhan said to Obama
Report Post »Who the he11 does she think she is? She disagrees with it on a personal level and is trying to find a way legally to stop it, but I think and hope and pray it is already a moot point.
GCruz
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:17pmShe should have recused herself anyway
Report Post »http://biggovernment.com/mtrackers/2011/03/22/judge-sumis-husband-donated-to-three-of-badger-14/
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:47pm@JZS
Report Post »She has a son who works for the union, why would she legally let herself even judge this? A higher court can and will throw it out due to her having a direct tie to one of the parties. Yes we are a country of laws, but that doesn’t seem to bother the Left, only the ones they like.
DAGNY
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:20pmI agree! The left never let a silly thing like a law stop them, why should the right. Implement and jam up the courts. They’re always calling for chaos, right?
Report Post »Kaen
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:23pmShe is just pi$$ed because even liberals wouldn’t sleep with her…lol
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:30pmjzs
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:31pm
Why he’s choosing to affront the court is beyond me.
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I can tell you why, because the process was legal, the bill is legal, and the Judge is willfully obfuscating those two facts so he not only knows that it will be overturned because of the Judge’s unlawful actions but that the bill can and will stand on its own merits.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:32pmNews Flash read it here all about the the judge
Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi & Her (SEIU, AFL-CIO) Political Operative Son
http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/03/21/wisconsin-judge-maryann-sumi-her-seiu-afl-cio-political-operative-son/
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:39pmDarmok and Jalad at Tanagra – what union?
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:14amdosent this old battle ax have a son or some family member in one of those unions. hard to believe someone had sex with her.
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:27amencinom, it doesnt matter if 1,4,24,or 84 district courts rule in favor of obama care. all it takes is one to rule against it. it is not a ball game. when one rules government is overstepping it powers then the law must err on the side of caution, that is, that the government is restrained just in case. and that is the way it should be until it is all sorted out by the supreme court.
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:54amCan I throw eggs at her house?
Report Post »Can I engage in the “protesting” like they did over in Greece as Ms. Francis Fox Piven has encouraged?
I know… I’ll put on a red T-shirt with a giant fist logo on it or a purple SEIU hoodie and then tip her car over! The media wont cover it then, but will refer to me as a peaceful demonstrator.
Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:55amFrom above:
encinom
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:05pm
I take it from your post that you would also agree that Justice Thomas should also step down when the Healthcare law goes before the Supreme Court. Judge Sumi Son once worked for a union, JUstice Thomas’ wife is the founder of a Astro-Turf Party Group and an active fund raiser, given these facts clearly you would apply the same standards.
Hey Enci,
I’ll let Clarence recuse himself, if you let Kagan do the same. She did just happen to be the solicitor general ya know. Kinda leaves us at a draw, huh?
By the way, after reading many of your posts, I just have to ask. Do you ever proofread any of your works? I don’t claim to be perfect, but in my mind, I still see a bunch of you trolls sitting in a boiler room overseas somewhere. Furiously typing away in between calls.
Report Post »Cherynn
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:19amThis is the party of lie,cheat and steal. I am glad this mom/judge is supporting her union son. Thats what America is all about partisan justice,,,,,wait, thats a conflict of interest. Never mind, its the party of lie, cheat and steal. Nothing unusual here.
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:39amThis is dumb. Just pass the original Assembly Bill in the Senate and be done with it.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:42amA judge who, instead of acting ‘judiciouisly’ is acting ‘predjudiciously.’ If that is not political bias,,,,,then I don’t know what is.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:43am@ JZS
I more creeped out that the democrats in Wisconsin had to initiate this whole mess by skipping town because they knew they’d lose that initial vote.
No matter what happens, the Dems started this whole fiasco. When push really comes to shove, the conservatives will end up winning along with the state of Wisconsin. It might not be apparent at first, but it will come to pass.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:08am@thetreyman: “…hard to believe someone had sex with her.”
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Even the phantom of the opera would flee from that sight. She probably went to a sperm bank and picked an SEIU donor.
Mee the People
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:01amwhathehell kinda haircut is that
Report Post »EP46
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:11amThe Judge, Maryann Sumi has a clear conflict of interest. Her son Jake” Sinderbrand is a political operative who also happens to be a former lead field manager with the AFL-CIO and data manager for the SEIU State Council.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:35am@encinom
How bout arresting the Obama Regime for treason.
2 of us are witnesses on here, and that’s all you need for a trial and conviction.
I bet you want a civil war don’t you.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:42am@encinom
The Tea Party openly carries loaded guns in this country, including black folks.
So we are not astroturf. owning and carrying a gun, proves just that, and most of us on here carry.
YOU Encinom are astroturf, and nothing but a fake.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:46am@encinom
All the Reagan Democrats supported firing the unions. Especially the ATC.
How about the 2 ATC union guys who were caught sleeping on the job.
PROVEN FACT. THE PLANES HAD TO LAND W/O NO ATC.
But you don’t give a damn if the Union ATC guys cause a crash.
You’re toast, Tea Party reigns.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:49am@TheBattleAxe
Sorry, Tea Party is not EVER going away, remember, guns rule, 2nd Amendment guarantees that.
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and 10 million new guns have been legally sold each year since the Obongo illegally took office.
He’s not even a US Born Citizen, so he’s illegal.
Jackers
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:55amIt’s bad enough when a Liberal activist judge can over-rule the majority will of the American people with a simple stroke of a pen, but now such a partisan judge can over-rule the legislation of a whole state legislature? Unbelievable…
Report Post »MHP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:56am@encinom
>I take it from your post that you would also agree that Justice Thomas should also step down when the Healthcare law goes before the Supreme Court. Judge Sumi Son once worked for a union, JUstice Thomas’ wife is the founder of a Astro-Turf Party Group and an active fund raiser, given these facts clearly you would apply the same standards.<
No encinom, the law is different for democrats, they have to obey it, we republicans and tea party activists do not.
We're superior to you so we rule.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD PAY ALL TAXES OWED TO THE GVT.
SINCE YOU STEAL OUR MONEY BY MOSTLY CHEATING.
YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A DAMN THIEF.
psst
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:02amsWampy
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 6:48pm
Liberals are on the wrong side of the law, they bribe a judge to rule for them.
Um. I don’t think they had to bribe this Judge (?)
Report Post »Ol’ Maryann is a member of the marxist party (aka dem party)
Marxist Judges ,like marxist unions , Prez and Congresmen/women have the same goal, the destruction of the USA.
IOW. these folks would pay to do what they are doing.
Marxist throughout the country have deep roots. They are dug in deeply into every nook and cranny of the Fed/State/Local government.Including the judiciary,SCOTUS not exempted. Also the MSM.
This did not happen overnight. it has taken them many decades.
They are so entrenched, w/ the MSM running interference for them, it will be nigh impossible to root them all out.
US have more communists in this country than the Old USSR ever did, even at the heights of their communist revolution.
US have more communists right now than does N. Korea ,Cuba or Venezuela.
magnum357
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:06amThis is so simple, she didn’t rule against the law, she ruled against some open meeting bullcrap. When work starts today lock the doors and put the original out again. All dems are there vote again and move on. no more open meeting bullcrap. If I was running things I would have laughed when they all came back from there work stoppage and told them it was a joke and we are voting right now since you are back. I would of used it to fool them into coming back.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:16amWell it appears that the union thugs have got a judge in their pockets. Surprise!!!!!!! NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »indy1
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:23amThe “Judge” is a brainless union pawn.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:25amKATAY, glad you mentioned the 4/5 vote. I was going to. People have seen enough of Prosser http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/releases/Prosser%20%26%20Feeney%20Facts%2020110328.pdf
Report Post »to make an educated vote FOR Kloppenburg.
TexasCommonSense
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:38am“Politically motivated”? It is more like “reality motivated”, or “financially motivated”. Get a clue, judge.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:42amKloppenburg is an environmentalterrorist. Shes a hack that was passed over for a judgeship by Governor JIM DOYLE!!!! Her own party passed on her. All she has done is gone after private citizens for the DNR for things that are rediculous. Shes rendered peoples private property worthless, she put a retaurant out of business because it was near a lake and would have contaminated it. But she doesn’t go after Tom Barrett and the Milwaukee Sewrerage district for dumping billions of gallons oh human crap into lake Michigan. Yeah that would be and educated vote if you are brain dead.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:09amMHP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:49am
@TheBattleAxe
Sorry, Tea Party is not EVER going away, remember, guns rule, 2nd Amendment guarantees that.
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and 10 million new guns have been legally sold each year since the Obongo illegally took office.
He’s not even a US Born Citizen, so he’s illegal
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So your whole argument boils down to, if you can not have your way legally, you will use force to and violence to impose your will on the masses, I believe the Nazi had a similar idea.
Did they run out of your meds at the compound?
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:30am@ EMINEMSMOM
Why not? You guys didn’t get your way legally here in Wisconsin so your side is using thug tactics and mob style threats to get your way. Whats the difference? Besides the fact that using guns would be quicker. No I am not saying I want it to come to this, but if anyone thinks I am just going to say “oh ok heres all my money spread it around” you’re nuts. If it happens “legally” by that I mean no voter fraud etc, I would accept it. B ut if its gained through the means being tried at this moment forget it all bets are off.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:34amHere’s a clue…the dems would NEVER WIN if elections were fair sans voter fraud. They would NEVER WIN if they actually campaigned on what they REALLY stood for. ALL dems act conservative when its election time. Its up to us voters to pay attention to what they do and remember.
Report Post »David Pasztor
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:50amWell, that’s the way it goes now-a-days. According to the american B-F-ING federal government all you people better just bend over, SHUT-UP and take it. That’s the un-written rule among the government, “Remember now, it’s “US” against the people!”
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:56amIAMMADDOG, this “They would NEVER WIN if they actually campaigned on what they REALLY stood for.” is a PERFECT description of what these governors did. They DID NOT run on dissembling unions, on creating authoritarian governorships, on having personal appointees who can dissolve townships and boot ELECTED officials by declaring a “state of emergency.” Collecting signatures is thuggery? Chanting “This is what democracy looks like,” singing the anthem is thuggery?
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:17ambiased butch
Report Post »Buddyc
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:10pmAgree
How do you restrain something that has already happened? The Unions need to find a more competent hack judge.
There will be no bonus for hubby and son this month.
Report Post »bigbear_awake
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:05pmkeeep on goooin nothin here MORE SEIU FINGERPRINTS IN FOUND WISCONSIN – JUDGE’S SON WORKED AT SEIU!
Report Post »Judge Maryann Sumi has been blocking the newly-signed Wisconsin law that limits collective bargaining for state workers, but should she have recused herself from this case? That is the contention made after it was discovered that Judge Sumi’s son worked as a Data Manager for the SEUI State Council. Read the entire story HERE.
marybethelizabeth
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:11pmThe argument isn’t about liberals vs conservatives. The Wisconsin legislation does not protect minority interests but rather provides for the welfare of a few at the expense of the many. It undermines equal opportunity.
Report Post »It is un-American.
waggie
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:27pmOf course she’s polically motivated and also trying to stay in the middle so as not to p!ss anybody off too much. Anyone who thinks differently is ignorant and probably a union thug. So sick of all this! Don’t know how much more we in Wisconsin can take of this!
Report Post »brendanjparedes
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:42pmIf you want to understand what’s going on in Wisconsin, you have to understand how screwed up decades of Liberal Progressives have made things. The courts in WIsconsin, particularly Dane county, are practically a hold over from Soviet Russia. Judge Sumi, for instance, despite Madison teachers having staged an illegal strike through a sick out in violation of state law and their contracts, and endangering children by frong marching students from Kindergarten to High School down there to protest with them, would not order them back to work. And she’s considered a Moderate in Dane County!
We have an assistant attorney general running for the State Supreme Court, whose only reason for even still being in the race against the very experienced and respected sitting judge, David Prosser, is that she’s a safe Union vote on the court… Equality before the bar of justice being a very subjective thing to her. The Chief Justice of the Court has tried to have two Republican Justices thrown off the court on ethics violations since losing her bullet proof majority, which is one of the reasons that the establishment is so hot to throw Prosser off the bench and replace him with someone who understands that justice is what the Unions tell her it is.
This case before Sumi, which was started not to challenge the constitutionality of the Budget Fix Law, but on the grounds of legislative procedure of whether the GOP acted fairly, while of course the Fugitive Fourteen were conducting an illegal filibuster and negotiating hin bad faith while trying to undo the 2010 election results, in giving only two hours notice – the term is reasonable notice, though Union Protesters and the Press had no trouble getting there and filling the galleries before the vote… even stormed the capital – was sufficient, will have farther reaching consequences.
In a state that virtually defines judicial activism, they have now changed what in any other year would be a no brainer reelection for Prosser into first a election between Prosser, who is conservative though also notoriously independent and honorable, and the Democratic Establishment Safe Union vote on the court in Kloppenburg, who planned on stopping all of Walker’s legislation through the courts, to now whether the people of Wisconsin believe that the Legislature should legislate the laws, or whether they and the Governor should just give up the pretense and surrender power and the separation of powers to the Courts, who plan on legislating from the bench anyway – the Wiscosnin court system virtually defines the phrase, Judicial Activism.
I’m not so sure it was such a smart idea to push this and give it the constitutional overtones they have.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:53pmTifosa you are wrong. I live in Wisconsin. EVERYONE here knew what he was going to do. Its why he is our Governor at the moment. As far as I am concerned these people are at war with ME and every other taxpayer that pays their salaries and benefits. I for one am sick and tired of it. I just heard a woman on the radio, from Wisconsin, bitching about Walker saying she can get a job opaying twice as much in the private sector. I say COME ON DOWN and have at it if you think so.
Report Post »swalt
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:03pmI WAS a union worker with AFSCME, an arm of the AFL-CIO. Back in 1992 we were sick and tired of these people taking our dues, letting us have 25 % to keep at our local and sending the rest back to New York so they could line their pockets and spend OUR money on things we didn’t agree with. We were able to kick the punks out and we formed our own Association, hired a lawyer to represent us, and we are much better off now than we were back then. They fought us tooth and nail, put out hate mail, tried bribery by taking a bunch of local “yes men” on a trip to Vegas … and even had a mock trial with representatives from New York ( we are in Oregon) and they kicked the nine of us who started the movement to decertify AFSCME out of the union. Six weeks later we booted them out. How did we do it? It started out with just nine of us. We met after work and on weekends, did our research, talked to a lot of people and came up with a plan. We went to our local Labor Relations Board, got a stack of cards from them which asked a simple question: Are you interested in voting on whether to keep AFSCME as your union … YES or NO. All we had to do was get a certain percentage of the workforce to sign in the affirmative, and the LRB held a vote, and THEY counted them. When it was over, AFSCME was voted out, we were able to keep our own dues money, opened our own office, and hired a set of lawyers. It CAN BE DONE! We are the proof! If you are really tired of what the unions have done in this country, then boot the punks out!
Report Post »swalt
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:04pmThe unions are responsible for 99% of the problems we have in this country right now. Want to help neuter them? Then pass this along to all you come in contact with. PLEASE!!! And keep in mind, the Beck referred to in this posting is NOT Glenn Beck.
Report Post »A little known law that ALL unions are supposed to make their members aware of is called Beck’s Law. But the unions DO NOT tell their members. Why? Keep reading.The Supreme Court’s Beck Decision Recognizes Individual Worker Rights: In 1989, the U. S. Supreme Court established what are now known as “Beck rights” in the landmark decision Communication Workers v. Beck, Beck rights dictate that workers cannot be forced under union contracts to pay any dues or fees beyond those necessary for the performance of the union’s employee representation duties. In other words, any worker who objects to his union’s use of his dues money for purposes not directly related to collective bargaining is entitled to a refund of that portion of his dues. Beck rights are a triumph of individual rights over the political weight of union leaders. Workers in labor unions DO NOT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR UNION BOSSES POLITICAL ACTIONS. All the member needs to do is notify the union they do not want their dues used for anything other than those directly related to collective bargaining, they will get a refund of their dues money. Look here for more information: http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=1403
If I can get enough people to pass this around, I truly believe it will make a huge dent in the labor unions ability fund anything political. Unions were meant to represent their members, not political action committees. Get the unions OUT of politics!
stevefim5
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:04pmAnother Progressive activist judge…. sad.
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:28ami’m hurt. encinom didn’t respond to my post. and i was so looking forward to schooling him/her on the law and the way the justice system works. as far as justice thomas is concerned he should not recuse himself nor should judge sumi. the only difference i would point out to the left is justice thomas never has to care about anything you say, yet judge sumi is beholden to a constituency. she may be fine in the end, who knows, but she also may have to pay (politically) for intervening where she has no authority.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:01pmThe teachers always say “its for the children” all while sticking the children with the credit card bill for their compensation in the present????? Limited Government will end this madness.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:02pmWho let Rachel Machio Napalitano’s mommy on the bench?
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