That article says he tried to buy his way out by promising to donate $100,000 to a civil rights organization.
I was going to ask how he’d come up with that kind of money, but apparently his salary is a bit over $100K/year, and he also gets an additional $65K/year from his DEA pension.
Wow.
I wonder if that’s true. Tighter borders mean denied opportunities for laborers. Maybe some big donors are OK with tight borders and national labor forces that are relatively captive compared to highly mobile investment money.
Remember that large companies employ workers in many countries, some much smaller and more vulnerable than the USA.
Sure, knock yourself out.
He’s had a number of unsuccessful run-ins with the courts over the years and yet seems to majestically sail on.
I hope he gets locked up in one of his own desert tents on a three day weekend Friday afternoon and the right wing crowd funding can’t bail him out until the next Tuesday. I’m not saying he should be physically threatened by being mixed in with the general population, just physically threatened by being jailed in the hot Arizona sun for three days and fed nothing but the same maggot ridden crap he gives prisoners.
Unfortunately, it’s a federal case, so he’d probably go to a federal jail.
Like, maybe, that one in north-central Illinois, where it gets sub-freezing in the winter and suffocatingly humid in the summer, and the glass on the other side of his barred window is broken away so his climate control is useless?
That would be nice.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) isn’t getting enough attention, so he introduced a bill to strip federal courts of their authority to issue an ruling on a caseinvolving same-sex marriage:
Not sure how he thinks legislation can change the Constitution, but he is the expert. [/sarcasm]
Any?! Not just marriage-related, but any?! That’s gotta be a misprint!
I thought the power that gave “federal courts the jurisdiction to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity under the Constitution” came from historical practice and case law (e.g. Maybury v. Griffith; Ogden v. Nash), not from Article III itself.
I’m not sure this is a stupid idea as I bet Gov. Brownback will be able to blame the increase on Obamacare. More like an evil idea.
Love this from the second article:
[QUOTE=Dipshit Preacher/Repub]
“It is clearly taught by Jesus the Christ himself,” Walberg preached to members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, “for those of us who believe in him — and I understand and I accept the fact that there are those who don’t — but he said render unto Caesar what’s Caesar’s and God what’s God’s, and I think that’s an important consideration for us on this committee tonight.”
[/QUOTE]
Basically, my storybook has this great character I believe in-- I can’t prove he’s real-- but we’re gonna do what he says anyway without any real reason or thought behind it, 'cause religion.
actual text of the relevant section:
[quote=“[Restrain the Judges on Marriage Act 2015 (pdf)]
(https://steveking.house.gov/sites/steveking.house.gov/files/KINGIA_048_xml.pdf)”]12 ‘‘(b) FUNDING.—No Federal funds may be used for
13 any litigation in, or the enforcement of any order or judg-
14 ment by, any court created by an Act of Congress, on any
15 question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity
16 under the Constitution of, any type of marriage, section
17 1738C, or this section.’’.
[/quote]
So, yeah, it is not “any” broad. However, the fundamental idea, that courts can be constrained by Congress through defunding, is troubling and hopefully cannot pass Constitutional muster.
Huh? There isn’t a prison in north central Illinois! Are you thinking of Stateville? That’s way over there.
“And by that I think he meant we should try and mix the two as closely as possible.”
My mistake, I could have sworn I read a thing a few years back about a major federal prison project in the northern hinterlands of Illinois somewhere well west of Rockport. Perhaps the project got quashed.
Jesus would weep.
Well at least this means that the Congressional conservatives who voted for this bill can no longer claim they are pro-life.