Ed Whelan, Bench Memos:
The timing of the frivolous motion by the Prop 8 plaintiffs to vacate the stay pending appeal also reasonably invites suspicions that the Obama administration was colluding with them.
Specifically: From what I can tell (and I invite correction on the point), the text of Attorney General Holder’s letter announcing the Obama administration’s decision to abandon the defense of DOMA apparently became publicly available somewhere around 12:30 p.m. Eastern time last Wednesday. Prop 8 plaintiffs filed their motion (according to the electronic notice issued by the Ninth Circuit) at 9:56 a.m. Pacific time—i.e., 12:56 p.m. Eastern time. And somehow Prop 8 plaintiffs were able to quote from Holder’s letter in their motion and include a copy of the letter as an attachment to their motion.
More broadly, it is reasonable to suspect that advance notice of the Obama administration’s decision helped spur Prop 8 plaintiffs’ decision to file their motion.
According to Mark Levin (h/t), this kind of thing happens all the time behind the scenes. In fact, Levin contends that the increasingly leftwing bureaucratic agencies within government actively court lawsuits against them by leftwing activists (for instance, on environmental law), then the agency’s lawyers will reach a settlement agreement out of court with the petitioning activists, thereby effectively changing regulatory rules that affect us all without having to pass laws, and without having to defend their overreach in court.
This was a revelation to me.
Our government is a fetid swamp. We need to drain it.
Worse yet. The (or another) governmental agency will often be funding the activist group to begin with. This has been going on at least since the 70s. It is especially pervasive in “environmental” and “consumer protection” fields. Community organizer heaven.
OT: Bret just mentioned a comment of mine on the Special Report online show. Yay me!
The race is on.
Can Obama destroy America before he gets thrown out on his ass?
The odds look good for him right now. Another year and a half to throw his extra-constitutional monkey wrenches into our machinery does not bode well for us. We appear to have no adults capable of stopping this America hating, egotistical little prick…
What comment cranky-d?
I have to paraphrase, but it was something like “Entitlement spending is where the real battle will be.” It was the last one he read before the show ended.
Yeah, I know, not original. Still, I think I can parlay this into a career.
This “colluding” with special interests to the point of meddling in state affairs, in Wisconsin and now California, is this something other presidents have done?
It seems pretty outrageous.
Huzzah!
Slick. As in slimy.
Good on ya, cranky.
This administrations and their activist leftist fucktards disgust me. Spit.
That is all.
Oh, hi geoffb and bh.
Cool cranky, too bad it was not regarding the cudgel business.
Hi back at ya JD.
I was craving a juicy Lucy today. However, my diet and travel schedule do not permit.
Bh – the Marantz and Klipsch components you recommended are beyond wonderful.
Geoffb – how far are you from Chicago?
Heh, yeah, maybe you ought to work that into your name, cranky. Cudgel-d? I’d google it. It’s very googlible.
Hey, JD. How’s elephant hunting been treating you? I was gonna email and ask if you can give us the possibility of a lock out next year based on the leading indicator of infrastructure spending. If you see a drop off on training camp facilities you’d tell us, right?
Can’t go wrong with a Marantz, JD.
People are more in a food and bullets mood these days, I think. My cudgel sales are a little flat.
Cudgel… that’s also a gun. Alternately, cudgel slash sandwich.
I’m just putting it out there.
JD about 200 miles or so. Exit 92 on I-94.
Grand Staircase Escalante. Besides what is brought up in this link, the coal deposit mentioned was/is a huge deposit of clean low sulfur coal. the only other one in the world was owned by a friend and contributor of the Clintons and also by the Chinese government. Putting the deposit in Utah off limits made the other one much more valuable. Notice that the ceremony was in Arizona though the “Monument” is in Utah. It was an FU to Utah and their politicians in addition to a gift to a big donor.
Geoffb is a google-fu master!
Keep Striking sensei!!!
Cudgel, like Chow Yun Fat, it never runs out of ammo.
Jeff, as I pointed out here, actions like you describe will sooner or later mean that every one of us who wants to uphold the Constitution is going to get to the same decision point. Danger, LTC John, et al, are going to get there faster because they’ve already infiltrated.
(Jeff): “…the increasingly leftwing bureaucratic agencies within government actively court lawsuits against them by leftwing activists (for instance, on environmental law), then the agency’s lawyers will reach a settlement agreement out of court with the petitioning activists, thereby effectively changing regulatory rules that affect us all without having to pass laws, and without having to defend their overreach in court. This was a revelation to me.”
Where have you been?
It’s a classic con, like the badger game, the glim dropper, or the Nigerian bank assistant. This happens all the time in the education industry with racial/gender disproportion issues and sp-ed issues. Bureaucrats love court orders to expand their bureaucracies and to spend more money.
Great news geoff. It will pass the house, no problem. Although as someone mentioned in the comments, the unions will try and make it a referendum vote. They’ll still lose, but as the commenter said, I can’t celebrate too much, yet. Not until my fellow Ohioans don’t disappoint me that is.
Our government is a fetid swamp. We need to drain it.
Can’t. It’s a wetland. What’s more, it’s critical habitat for the endangered species democratia bureaucraticus socialisticii. It’s a type of parasitic worm.
Let’s hear it for Ohio! The public unions and their fully owned politicians can’t focus their fire if this spreads across the country.
Bh – I predict decertification of the union this evening, followed by multiple anti-trust lawsuits in Minneapolis, which the NFL will ultimately lose. I think it will all hinge on whether or not the judge grants an injunction to the players. I pray it does not get out of control.