{"id":53753,"date":"2015-06-10T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53753"},"modified":"2015-06-10T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:45:10","slug":"53753","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53753","title":{"rendered":"Rule Of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge said the President lacks the constitutional power to enact his amnesty scheme, and enjoined it.<br \/>\nThe Federal Court of Appeals held there was little chance the government could prevail on the merits of its case, and upheld the injunction.<br \/>\nThe government chose not to appeal that decision. The injunction stands.<br \/>\nThe President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jun\/8\/obama-derides-judge-who-blocked-amnesty\/\">derides the individual federal judge who issued the injunction<\/a>, failing to mention the Court of Appeals\u2019 finding that the government\u2019s case was a loser.<br \/>\nIn Minnesota, it\u2019s a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct to engage in conduct that\u2019s prejudicial to the administration of justice. I believe Minnesota lawyers have been sanctioned for verbally attacking judges, because that conduct brings the entire judicial system into disrepute. Too bad that level of cordiality doesn\u2019t apply outside our borders.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember when people said Obama&#8217;s purported background as a &#8220;constitutional scholar&#8221; was a stellar qualification for the job? And I responded that the president needs to know no more about the Constitution that a good policeman does \u2013 in other words, &#8220;follow it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Being right all the time is getting tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>No it isn&#8217;t. Just scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A federal judge said the President lacks the constitutional power to enact his amnesty scheme, and enjoined it. The Federal Court of Appeals held there was little chance the government could prevail on the merits of its case, and upheld the injunction. The government chose not to appeal that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53753","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=53753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53763,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53753\/revisions\/53763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}