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And in Our WTF Category…
Posted: 19 Jul 2012 in Axis of Idiots, Circuit Courts, Democrats, Department of Injustice, Failure, Politics, Racism, Stupid PeopleTags: Affirmative action, Axis of Idiots, Circuit Court, Idiots, Judge, Liberal, Liberalism is a mental disorder, Racism
…we have this little gem from a NY judge. This is the end of America. This is institutionalized racism.
Morons.
From Kickin’ and Screamin’:
LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY? YOUR FIREMEN JUST BECAME MORE STUPID AND INCAPABLE OF DOING THEIR JOBS
by Vilmar
Why? Political correctness from a black robed tyrant mandating stupid, less qualified blacks and Hispanics be allowed on the force at the expense of more qualified whites.
If any black or Hispanic got a score of 25 out of 100 they are eligible for back pay on a job they never got.
25 OUT OF 100!!!!!
A federal judge is ordering the New York City Fire Department to implement racial quotas to address grievances from minorities who failed entrance exams.
Stolen Valor…
Posted: 11 Jul 2012 in Activist Judges, Coast Guard, Constitution, First Amendment, Lies, Military, Stolen Valor, Stupid People, Supreme Court, US Air Force, US Army, US Marines, US Navy, VeteransTags: Military, Stolen Valor, Veteran
Since the SCOTUS is apparently chock full of morons, the Stolen Valor Act was declared unconstitutional on the grounds that it had something to do with “free speech.”
How some asshole that has never served a day, or just felt that he didn’t do enough when he was in, and now needs to pretend he’s a SEAL, SF, Ranger, Marine or whatever constitutes “free speech” is beyond me.
It’s disgusting to think that some asshole is reaping the benefits of something not earned. It’s a slap in the face of EVERY Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, or Coast Guardsman, both living and deceased.
Bad call SCOTUS. Bad call.
Over at This ain’t Hell there this gem of a post, free speech.
On the SCOTUS Ruling…
Posted: 28 Jun 2012 in Axis of Idiots, Buyers' Remorse, Comarade Obama, Constitution, Failure, Government, Healthcare, Obama, Politics, SCOAMF, Supreme CourtTags: Obamacare, SCOTUS
What a shame. That wasn’t what I expected. It’s not the end of things, this puts it back into the people’s hands. Now you vote the son’s of bitches out of office that voted for that shit.
Get rid of it.
Here’s CATO’s take on it.
Supreme Court Unlawfully Rewrites Obamacare to Save It; Four Votes (Led by Kennedy) to Strike It
Posted by Ilya Shapiro
Today’s baby-splitting decision rewrites the Affordable Care Act in order to save it. It’s certainly gratifying that a majority rejected the government’s dangerous assertion of power to require people to engage in economic activity in order to then regulate that activity. That vindicates everything that we who have been leading the constitutional challenge have been saying: The government cannot regulate inactivity. It cannot, as Chief Justice Roberts put it, regulate mere existence.
Justifying the individual mandate under the taxing power, however, in no way rehabilitates the government’s constitutional excesses. As Justice Kennedy said in summarizing his four-justice dissent from the bench, “Structure means liberty.” If Congress can slip the Constitution’s structural limits simply by “taxing” anything it doesn’t like, its power is no more limited than would it be had it done so under the Commerce Clause. While imposing new taxes may be politically unpopular and therefore harder to do than creating new regulations, that political check does not obviate constitutional ones—and in any event, Congress avoided even that political gauntlet here by explicitly structuring the individual mandate as a commercial regulation.
Temporary Victory for Aaron Walker…
Posted: 25 Jun 2012 in Circuit Courts, Constitution, First Amendment, PoliticsTags: Aaron Walker, Convicted Felon Brett Kimberlin, First Amendment, Free speech
This is a step in the right direction.
More needs to be done.
Temporary Victory: Aaron Walker’s First Amendment Rights Restored; Judge Stays Brett Kimberlin’s “Peace Order” Against Him
The “peace order” issued by an incompetent judge had stripped Aaron Walker of his First Amendment rights, ordering him to not mention Brett Kimberlin publicly.
That order has been stayed, with a full hearing to decide if the order should stand or fall on July 5th. Note, however, that emergency relief (as here) is usually given only when there is a “substantial” likelihood of prevailing on the ultimate merits, so, at the moment, it seems likely the peace order will be struck down on July 5th, too.
Here’s what came out of the SCOTUS today.
Federal Judge Kicks Out Part of Chicago’s Gun Law…
Posted: 20 Jun 2012 in Circuit Courts, Constitution, Democrats, Gun Rights, Guns, Politics, Second AmendmentTags: Chicago, Circuit Court, Guns, Politics, Second Amendment
Another chink in the armor of the anti-gun assholes in Chicago just got handed to them.
What part of “shall not be infringed” do they not get?
Federal judge kicks out part of Chicago’s gun law
Ban on permits for those convicted of unlawful use of weapon is called unconstitutional
By Dahleen Glanton and Liam Ford, Chicago Tribune reporters
Chicago’s firearm ordinance took another blow Tuesday when a federal judge ruled that the section banning permits for people convicted of unlawful use of a weapon is vague and unconstitutional.
The city must now decide whether to appeal the ruling or rewrite the part of its gun ordinance that bars individuals convicted of even misdemeanor offenses from possessing a firearm in their home for self-defense.
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by Shawn Gowder, who claimed his constitutional right to bear arms was violated when he was denied a firearm permit two years ago because of a misdemeanor conviction for possessing a gun on a public street.
The lawsuit, backed by the National Rifle Association, is one of at least five cases pending against the city’s gun ordinance, which was passed in 2010 just days after theU.S. Supreme Court struck down the city’s 28-year ban on handguns. The Illinois State Rifle Association also filed a brief in support of Gowder.
via Federal judge kicks out part of Chicago’s gun law – chicagotribune.com.
Judge Milan Smith Shows There is Someone not Insane on the 9th Circuit…
Posted: 4 Jun 2012 in Activist Judges, Axis of Idiots, Circuit Courts, Climategate, Eco-terrorism, Global Warming Scam, PoliticsTags: Activist Judges, Axis of Idiots, Circuit Court, Ninth Circuit, Politics
Just wow. I never thought I’d see the day where a judge on the Ninth Circuit actually had some sense. He’s a Bush appointee, which probably says a lot in and of itself.
This comes from Ace of Spades…
Judge Milan Smith Has Had It With the Ninth Circuit’s Environmental Cases
“Here we go again,” Judge Milan Smith starts in his epic broadside (PDF) against the Ninth Circuit’s anti-prosperity, bureaucracy-boosting environmental decisions. The Bush 43 appointee has had enough:
I cannot conclude my dissent without considering the impact of the majority’s decision in this case, and others like it, which, in my view, flout our precedents and undermine the rule of law. . . .
By rendering the Forest Service impotent to meaningfully address low impact mining, the majority effectively shuts down the entire suction dredge mining industry in the states within our jurisdiction. . . . As a result, a number of people will lose their jobs and the businesses that have invested in the equipment used in the relevant mining activities will lose much of their value. In 2008, California issued about 3,500 permits for such mining, and 18 percent of those miners received “a significant portion of income” from the dredging. See Justin Scheck, California Sifts Gold Claims, The Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2012. The gold mining operation in this case, the New 49ers, organizes recreational weekend gold-mining excursions. The majority’s opinion effectively forces these people to await the lengthy and costly ESA consultation process if they wish to pursue their mining activities, or simply ignore the process, at their peril.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time our court has broken from decades of precedent and created burdensome, entangling environmental regulations out of the vapors. In one of the most extreme recent examples, our court held that timber companies must obtain Environmental Protection Agency permits for stormwater runoff that flows from primary logging roads into systems of ditches, culverts, and channels. Nw. Envtl. Def. Ctr. v. Brown, 640 F.3d 1063 (9th Cir. 2011). In the nearly four decades since the Clean Water Act was enacted, no court or government agency had ever imposed such a requirement. Indeed, the EPA promulgated regulations that explicitly exempted logging from this arduous permitting requirement. Yet our court decided to disregard the regulation and require the permits.
The result? The imminent decimation of what remains of the Northwest timber industry.
via Judge Milan Smith Has Had It With the Ninth Circuit’s Environmental Cases.
The NRA Files Legal Brief in Second Amendment Challenge to San Francisco Gun Control Laws…
Posted: 25 May 2012 in Circuit Courts, Government, Gun Rights, Guns, Politics, Second AmendmentTags: Circuit Court, Guns, Second Amendment
More good news on the 2A front. It looks like the case in San Franfreako is starting to head in the right direction.
California gun owners need a win at this level so that other cases can move forward and maybe, just maybe some of the draconian anti-gun laws can get overturned here.
Here’s hoping for the best!
California: The NRA Files Legal Brief in Second Amendment Challenge to San Francisco Gun Control Laws
On May 17, 2012, attorneys for the National Rifle Association, the San Francisco Veteran Police Officers Association, and several San Francisco gun owners filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings in their legal challenge to San Francisco’s “locked-storage” law, as well as the City’s prohibition on the sale of “hollow-point” ammunition and all ammunition that does not “serve a sporting purpose.”
The lawsuit, Jackson v. City and County of San Francisco, was filed as a test case in May of 2009, before the McDonald v. Chicago decision in 2010, and in the wake of the 9th Circuit’s May 2, 2011 confirmation in Nordyke v. King that the Second Amendment is “incorporated”, i.e., that it protects against infringements by state and local governments.
The motion [available here] asserts that the City has not raised a viable defense, and asks the Court to issue an injunction preventing enforcement and to declare the ordinances unconstitutional. At minimum, the motion will serve to narrow the issues, and to prevent the City from misdirecting the litigation with irrelevant distractions.
The Jackson case was strategically designed to, potentially, be the first case to address the “standard of review” applicable to Second Amendment challenges. The case is legally “cleaner” than many of the Second Amendment cases currently being litigated, as it does not raise issues about public carry, “sensitive places” where a firearm may or may not be possessed, or other issues that might make it easier for a court to water down Second Amendment protections.
Liberals are Targeting John Roberts…
Posted: 22 May 2012 in Axis of Idiots, Buyers' Remorse, Comarade Obama, Democrats, Healthcare, Obama, Politics, SCOAMF, Supreme CourtTags: Comrade Obama, Healthcare, SCOAMF, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The libtards are beside themselves over Obamacare. They know this shit will get shot down, so they do anything and everything that they can think of to intimidate the SCOTUS. Intimidation, it’s their signature move.
Here’s a well written article on the issue.
Targeting John Roberts
The left tries to intimidate the High Court on ObamaCare.
You can tell the Supreme Court is getting closer to its historic ObamaCare ruling because the left is making one last attempt to intimidate the Justices. The latest effort includes taunting Chief Justice John Roberts that if the Court overturns any of the law, he’ll forever be defined as a partisan “activist.”
Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy recently took the extraordinary step of publicly lobbying the Chief Justice after oral argument but before its ruling. “I trust that he will be a Chief Justice for all of us and that he has a strong institutional sense of the proper role of the judicial branch,” the Democrat declared on the Senate floor. “The conservative activism of recent years has not been good for the Court.”
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