Gunpowder Chronicle posted on January 10, 2008 3:36 PM | Rating:
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Well, the GOP effort to undo the spectaular disaster of the Special Session was a flop, as I always expected it would be. As Judge Stanfield ruled, invalidating the legislation just was not the remedy called for in the Constitution for a procedural violation.
But all was not lost.
Once again, the legislature (and most importantly, the legislative leadership) received a stinging rebuke from a Judge.
From the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter:
In his ruling, Stanfield chastised Democrats in the legislature for apparent funny business to hide the procedural error. He noted "an egregious lack of judgment" on the part of ruling Democrats. But Stanfield disagreed with GOP claims that the error invalidated the tax hikes.
"Although the court is inclined to agree with the plaintiffs regarding the reprehensible nature in which the Legislature conducted itself, the remedy they seek in redress is too drastic a notion to accept," Stanfield wrote.
"Egregious lack of judgement", "rephrehensible nature in which the Legislature conducted itself": those are very strong terms for a Judge to use in describing Senate President Man Perm and Mickey Mouse Leadership Busch. Pretty accurate, too.
This is what passes for courageous leadership in the State of Maryland these days. If you can't get what you want, just violate the Constitution. Reprehensible, indeed.