Joel Rosenberg is currently sitting in jail for violating a court order signed by Hennepin County Chief Judge Jim Swenson that declared that guns were not allowed in “courtrooms” in Henco…<\/p>\n
…notwithstanding that he was not arrested in a “courthouse” – he was arrested at the office of the Chief of Police, which wasn’t even listed on Judge Swenson’s court order.\u00a0 No matter – Judge Swenson had declared some <\/em>county buildings to be “courthouses”.\u00a0 And Henco judge Janet Poston is apparently closing ranks with a cop who apparently embarassed himself by arresting Rosenberg for behaving entirely legally – all apparently entirely by judicial fiat.<\/p>\n So I got to wondering; how else can a county judge pre-empt state law with a stroke of the pen?<\/p>\n And after exhaustive research, here they are:\u00a0 The Top Ten Laws-By-Proclamation From Henco Judge Swenson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 10. All Hennepin County residents not wearing aluminum foil pants shall be subject to tasing and confiscation of property, at the sole discretion of Judge Poston.<\/p>\n 9. Judges shall not be referred to as “your honor”, but as “your serene majesty”.<\/p>\n 8. All betting spreads are doubled for judges, police, fire, and county administrative employees, and other county workers as defined by a Hennepin County judge.<\/p>\n 7. No tabs are to be picked up by Hennepin County judges.<\/p>\n 6. The United States Constitution and Minnesota state law are both considered to be\u00a0 firearms, for purposes of “Courthouse” carry restrictions.<\/p>\n 5. So is “satirizing Judge Swenson’s alleged penchant for authoritarian overreach”.<\/p>\n 4. Manny’s Steak House is now legally considered to be “Judge Swenson’s chambers”.<\/p>\n 3. Britney Spears is totally hotter than Christina Aguilera.<\/p>\n 2. All of Hennepin County is actually an elementary school<\/em>; nobody can possess a firearm within 1,000 yards of Hennepin County.<\/p>\n 1. The law is pretty much whatever Judge Swenson says it is; if you don’t believe it, bend over and INSERT VIOLENT VERB and in the INSERT AWKWARD BIT OF ANATOMY.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Whew.\u00a0 Seems pretty draconian to me.\u00a0 But we’d best not complain; they’re all legal and stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joel Rosenberg is currently sitting in jail for violating a court order signed by Hennepin County Chief Judge Jim Swenson that declared that guns were not allowed in “courtrooms” in Henco… …notwithstanding that he was not arrested in a “courthouse” – he was arrested at the office of the Chief of Police, which wasn’t even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16105,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097\/revisions\/16105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}