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[acroyear]

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Suing Judges:

Suing Judges

Posted on: October 18, 2006 9:42 PM, by Ed Brayton

While conservatives are busy saying, "Attacks on judicial independence? What attacks on judicial independence?", South Dakota has an amendment on the ballot this year allowing people to sue judges for making decisions they don't like. And that's not the half of it. The LA Times reports:

South Dakota's Amendment E would have the most sweeping effect; it has drawn opposition from conservatives and liberals -- including, in a rare show of unanimity, every member of the state Legislature.

Under the amendment judges in the state could lose their jobs or assets if citizens disliked how they sentenced a criminal, resolved a business dispute or settled a divorce. "We want to give power back to the people," said Jake Hanes, a spokesman for the measure.

A special grand jury would evaluate citizen complaints against judges -- and judges would not be presumed innocent. Amendment E explicitly instructs jurors to "liberally" tilt in favor of any citizen with a grievance, and "not to be swayed by artful presentation by the judge."

Gee, what attacks on judicial independence.

My second Godfried "What the FUCK????" of the week and it's not even half over...

Comments

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was a fairly long piece on NPR yesterday morning. Forgot I'd thought to post it:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6288938

One of the quotes was "every single organized group in the state is against it . . . for different reasons."

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

Imagine it passes. Every single state judge in South Dakota resigns the next day to return to private practice, saying "They don't pay me enough for this."

South Dakotans get to find out why we have a legal system in the first place. A decade later, they are invaded and occupied by the North Dakotan national guard in an attempt to restore order. Result: Only one Dakota. Finally.

Vote yes on E!

only one small problem with that theory...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

North Dakota's National Guard are down protecting Texas from invading Mexican illegal immigrants while they build the f'in' wall. (Yes, this the act of a genius completely forgetting that North Dakota has its own border to protect - to keep all them american pharmacuticals from coming back into america at prices cheaper than they are sold to our own people...)

back to the old drawing board...

Re: only one small problem with that theory...

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

Oh, we won't need the whole ND national guard. Y'see, they'll be greeted as liberators. With, um, flowers...and beer...and stuff.

Re: only one small problem with that theory...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

so which half of the continental divide are you going to pull them from?