8 Replies to “So, you didn’t really mean what you said, did you, Judge Vinson?”

1. Shaitan says:

   February 18, 2011 at 9:50 am

   Don’t make me send a union protest to your home, Vinson!

2. DarthLevin says:

   February 18, 2011 at 9:55 am

   Lovely ruling you’ve got there, Judge. Be a shame if something happened to it. See, my friend Bill Ayers, he’s kind of clumsy-like and things just sort of … happen … around him, see?

3. LBascom says:

   February 18, 2011 at 10:16 am

   I’m thinking this kind of ham fisted overreach isn’t going to have a positive effect on future judicial review of the law.

   TURF WAR!

4. geoffb says:

   February 18, 2011 at 10:54 am

   Another writeup with more clarity. With a nice quote.

   While the ultimate decision is likely to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, for now, the overhaul is the law of the land, contends Timothy S. Jost, a professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.

   “This is one renegade judge that has reached this decision,” he said. In refusing to participate in the law, he said, Alaska “is really the outlier” among states.

   Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, said currently states have an “enormous amount of discretion” in how they implement provisions of the law. If the governor refuses to exercise that, the federal government will have the say, he said.

5. Joe says:

   February 18, 2011 at 10:56 am

   Things are getting interresting

6. Jeff G. says:

   February 18, 2011 at 11:05 am

   Our law professors are mostly political hacks these days, just like our politicized leftist judges. They infiltrate the system in order to destroy it — taking what are clear meanings and resignifying them, bracketing originary intent in order to justify substituting their own in its place. It’s a power play through language, and in that respect it mirrors every other plank of their ideology. That’s just a fact — whether you want to pretend their are clown noses involved or not.

   He is wrong on the law. Whether he believes the judge “renegade” or not is beside the point. His is the binding decision at this point. And all the other governors who joined the suit should be doing what the Alaska Governor is doing.

7. Silver Whistle says:

   February 18, 2011 at 11:17 am

   Are the words “declaratory” and “judgment”, when placed together in a phrase, suddenly incomprehensible? Or is it possible that the entirety of the Justice Dept. were asleep the day in law school they went over that bit?

8. Joe says:

   February 18, 2011 at 12:45 pm

   Liberty is a beautiful thing.

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