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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:00 AM
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Why isn't scott walker in jail? How does he get to violate a court order with no repercussions?
What's going on?

Our legislators get to do whatever the hell they want?
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:06 AM
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1. In the old days these bloodsuckers challenged a court order before violating it
Apparently I'm in the wrong decade

:banghead:
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:09 AM
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2. If wisconsin is like az then he has immunity while in session.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:10 AM
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3. so walker can do whatever he wants with impunity? if he shoots someone in the state house, nothing
happens?

seriously messed up.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:13 AM
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here_is_to_hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:17 AM
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5. oooo........... you are bad!
lulzy!
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:28 AM
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12. ....Well.....
:rofl:
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:20 AM
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8. Does wisconsin have that law? We do, just drove home by two pugs fistacuff'n on the freeway this
week. Only the female pigliCON went to the slammer, the congress freak didn't have to spend the night in the slammer because the legislature was in session.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:27 AM
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11. fast eddie just said court hearings had been conducted all day with regard to violation of ct /o/
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buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:19 AM
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6. As I understand it, the order was issued to Walker's chief of the Department of Administration
If the DOA chief is found to be out of compliance, he could be found in contempt of court. DOA is playing like they have the building open to the public. Obviously, this is a farce, but there would have to be a court case to prove it.
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:21 AM
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9. Ah!
That's interesting
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:30 AM
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13. No they took testimony all day from citizens testifying that they were locked out of the Capital.
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buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:32 AM
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16. Here's another thread with a media report on the court hearing.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x545820
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speltwon Donating Member (699 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 12:14 PM
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22. Also, many orders do not have have summary criminal clauses per se
Iow, some orders (many domestic violence orders an obvious example) have clauses that allow summary arrest for violation. Many others (ex-parte anti-harassment orders being a common example) often don't have such clauses. Petitioners must go to court with evidence of a violation and then a judge can issue either a warrant or a summons, but police have no power to arrest for a mere allegation of a violation.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:19 AM
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7. The court order should apply upward in the chain of command ...
Edited on Thu Mar-03-11 01:29 AM by Bozita
... until the court's order is fulfilled.
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:26 AM
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10. Judge is holding hearing today and tomorrow regarding Capitol, should be ruling tomorrow.
Just heard it on The Ed Show.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:30 AM
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14. thanks.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:30 AM
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15. fast eddie is on it again!
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 02:27 AM
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17. Kick.
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BlueMTexpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 02:51 AM
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18. I thought that it went without saying that the "law" only applies to
Democrats.
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Kablooie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 02:55 AM
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19. He's Republican. He doesn't have to follow laws. That's the law.
Edited on Thu Mar-03-11 02:58 AM by Kablooie
Republicans have bee breaking law over and over and over again and none of them ever suffer any consequences
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marions ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 06:24 AM
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20. good question
I think we all know the answer.

Justice is for other people. Lawmakers don't have to abide by the law.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 06:31 AM
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21. Good question
I saw a response here yesterday that the person who receives the order (a Walker tool)to open the people's house was told to disappear so he could not be served.
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 12:28 PM
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23. Maybe someone will send him a "Sternly worded" letter.
Republicans have learned they can blatantly thumb their noses at the Law.. The Bush* Cabal cemented that fact with their refusals to answer subpoenas. They just thumb their noses and America doesn't even blink..
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alterfurz Donating Member (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 09:01 PM
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24. same M.O. as in Walker's Milwaukee County days...
"Whenever lawyers told him he could not do something, he invariably said, 'Let's do it anyway. By the time it works its way through the courts, we will have achieved our objective and, who knows, we might win.'"
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bluestate10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 09:36 PM
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25. If the decree was issued by a federal judge, US Marshals could enforce
the ruling. But doing so brings up sticky political issues because the US AG would have to issue an arrest order that marshals would be obligated to carry out. For the hot blooded on DU a federal arrest order on Walker likely sounds like a good idea, but such an order would take negatives from Walker and transfer them to democrats. Let Walker drown in the sewer that he has created. Any bill that Walker pass will be reversed once democrats take control of government in Wisconsin, and folks, that day is not far off after the action of Walker and republicans.
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