Sunday, July 11, 2010
Challenged! Court using 'feelings' as case decider
FAITH UNDER FIRE
Challenged! Court using 'feelings' as case decider
Supremes never adopted 'offense' as sufficient standing for claim
Posted: July 10, 201010:25 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh© 2010 WorldNetDaily
 U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb |
The arguments from the ACLJ came in an appeal pending before the 7th Circuit of a decision by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb of Wisconsin, who decided the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.
Crabb's decision came in a case filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based atheist and agnostic group that challenged the constitutionality of a 1988 federal law.
The law gives the president the authority to designate the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer.
Crabb, appointed to the court in 1979 by President Carter, determined the statute violates the First Amendment's establishment clause, which says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
A district judge's decision that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional is being challenged on the argument, submitted in friend-of-the-court briefs to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, that never before has any court decided that "hurt feelings" are grounds for making a claim.
"The district court in this case embraced an entirely novel – and improper – basis for standing: hurt feelings," said the brief submitted by the American Center for Law and Justice. "Never has the Supreme Court endorsed anything like such a wide-open concept of access to federal adjudication.
"Indeed, to the extent the Supreme Court has addressed the issue at all, it has firmly repudiated such limitless theories of Article III standing," the brief continued.
U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb
The arguments from the ACLJ came in an appeal pending before the 7th Circuit of a decision by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb of Wisconsin, who decided the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.
Crabb's decision came in a case filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based atheist and agnostic group that challenged the constitutionality of a 1988 federal law.
The law gives the president the authority to designate the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer.
Crabb, appointed to the court in 1979 by President Carter, determined the statute violates the First Amendment's establishment clause, which says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
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In her opinion, Crabb wrote that in her view of case law, "government involvement in prayer may be consistent with the establishment clause when the government's conduct serves a significant secular purpose and is not a 'call for religious action on the part of citizens.'"
But she wrote that the National Day
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Tryanny of the Bench unabated 30 yrs
30 yrs later Judicial Tryanny alive
Murray N. Rothbard
04/1978
One of the fatal flaws in the concept of “limited” government is the judiciary. Endowed with the compulsory monopoly of the vital power of deciding disputes, of ultimately deciding who can wield force and how much can be wielded, the government judiciary sits as an unchecked and unlimited tyrant. Pledged to [...]
The Tyranny of the Bench
One of the fatal flaws in the concept of “limited” government is the judiciary. Endowed with the compulsory monopoly of the vital power of deciding disputes, of ultimately deciding who can wield force and how much can be wielded, the government judiciary sits as an unchecked and unlimited tyrant.
Pledged to preside over the rule of law, law that is supposed to apply to everyman, the judges themselves are yet above the law and free from its sanctions and limitations. When clothed in the robes of his office, the judge can do no legal wrong and is therefore immune from the law itself.
There is a crucial catch-22 in this grisly situation. For if anyone would like to argue against this arrangement, he can do so – in our archist system – only before judges who themselves are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. It is up to government judges to rule on whether government judges are immune from the law. How do you think they would decide? Well, how do you think a group of economists would decide on the question of whether economists should be immune? Or any other group or profession?
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Justice in Minnesota Conference Call Featuring Judicial Candidates
Host Name:
Minnesota Tea Party Patriots
Show Name:
Justice in Minnesota Conference Call Featuring Judicial Candidates
Date / Length:
6/27/2010 7:00 PM - 2 hrs 1 min
Length:
2 hrs 1 min
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http://www.justiceinmn.com/Greg Wersal, Tim Tinglestad, & Dan Griffith, & guests 6:55 PM: Pre-Conf. Call Greetings & Announcements. Pre-Conf. Moderator: Dorothy Fleming 7:05 PM: Start. Moderator: George Wu, SD41, CD3 Co-Moderator: Candace Oathout, SD45 Chair, CD's 3 & 51. Greg Wersal, endorsed GOP, CPMN, & LP Judicial Candidate for 2nd seat, MN Supreme Court 2. Tim Tinglestad, endorsed GOP & CPMN Judicial Candidate for 6th seat, MN Supreme Court 3. Dan Griffith, endorsed GOP & CPMN Judicial Candidate for 14th seat, Court of Appeals 4. Judicial Reform & Accountability update: Dale Nathan. 5. Q & A: Callers and Judicial Candidates: 30 seconds, please. Weekly Conf. Calls ongoing: Sunday nites: 7 - 8 pm: Countdown Clock: 19 weekends left to Election Day, Nov. 2, 2010. 7. Next Conf. Call announcement: Note: No Conf Call, Sun., July 4th. Happy 4th of July, Folks! Hence, July 11th.... 8:00 pm: 8. Adjournment. 8:01 pm: 9. Post Conf. Call forum/discussion/Q & A. Moderator: Joe Salmon, SD56 Chair, Woodbury, MN Co-Moderator: Steve Ellenwood, SD56. 10: No time restraints, no time limits during Post Conf. Call forum for Callers and Judicial Candidates. Notes: 1. Suggestion: multi-task during Conf. Call. Ie: text, email, click on websites, research, schedule/plan activities. 2. Honor System:a) *6 Mute; *6 Unmute. Be courteous to all other callers; background noises from your phone is TOTALLY unnecessary and prevents other callers from enjoying the Conf. Call. b) If you wish to talk, announce yourself: Name and location, please. georgewu@comcast.net: email me new names and addresses for CC invitations. C: 612-387-9399 or Text me. Call the conference directly: Dial-in Number: 1-270-696-2525 (East Coast) Access Code: 501618
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Abolish Judicial Immunity
Sharon4Anderson http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj7n2/cj7n2-13.pdf?utm_source=sendible&utm_medium=feed http://p2tre.emv3.com/HSM?a=E9X7Cqk-fKTv8SA9MKJN7rDnGHxMLqs 'Finest video ever produced' about the USA
DMashak #Q4C In light of massive judicial corruption,Will U Sponsor judicial accountability bill eliminating judicial immunity? http://bit.ly/cXLQs7
