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...You surely don't claim that everyone who appears before a "rouge" judge has the means or the wherewithal to mount effective appeals do you?...
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A rouge judge? Do we have another spelling disagreement here? To answer your question, no, I would not make that claim and it's even worse than that. Sometimes appeals are unavailable no matter how much money the litigants have.
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Wouldn't such a law simply statutorily prevent judges who abide by their fidelity to their oaths to office from straying into versions of law without Constitutional basis?
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For one thing, we will need judges to enforce Newt's new law, so what would he accomplish? For another, I think it's a solution searching for a problem. It's not as if we have judges applying Sharia law all over the place. There was one judge, in New Jersey I think, who seemed to do it, but he got reversed on appeal.
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Is there a reason other than "we don’t need it"? If there was such a law what would be its negative consequence?
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Who knows what unintended consequences such an unnecessary law might have once creative lawyers get hold of it.
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I don’t know if you are aware of the NJ judge whose ruling was overturned on appeal is the poster boy for the no Sharia in our courts cause. I can’t find a fairly factual report on the original case or the appellate ruling at the moment, but there are a million opinions about it!
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That's the one. I typed the previous part of the comment before I got to this. That judge seemed to have a major brain freeze, although I don't know the details.
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When the public see’s and hears of cases like that and cases where Muslim taxi drivers are discriminating based on their religious principles without consequence, combined with the seemingly obtrusive and even belligerent Muslim expansion in area’s across the country, as has been the case throughout much of western Europe, no one should be surprised that perceptions play out as politics.
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That's true, but Newt should know better, IMHO.