Haley Barbour Rigs the Court?
This year the Governor tried to adjourn a special session of the legislature (isn't the legislature the one that's supposed to do that? you ask...well so did they). A few members of the house got a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the governor.
This was an issue because if they were out of session, the legislature couldn't stop Barbour's plan to toss 65,000 poor and elderly people off medicaid.
The TRO was overturned by Justice Smith of the supreme court 2 hours later. WELL, its turns out that Barbour met with the Chief Justice (Smith) within those 2 hours before he ruled in favor of the governor. But Barbour claims there was no talk about the ruling and the rest of us with a pulse aren't so sure.
Rep. Jamie Franks is trying to get to the bottom of this:
"The governor told the leadership of the House (at the time) that if we did get a lower court order (preventing Barbour from dissolving the special session,) he would have it overturned in 30 minutes,'' Franks said. "We want to investigate whether he (Smith) should have recused himself from the case.''
Governor Porkchop seems to be trying to put the fix in. read the article and see what you think. I think our Supreme Court is one of thes worst in the nation.
Thursday, June 24, 2004
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It's a wierd posting thing, user name, password, etc. So heisenberg goes anon. The question, are the judges elected there, or appointed for life by the gov, or something else? At least with having to face the electorate, there may be a bit more decorum than having pork chops together before putting the robe back on and then standing and delivering.
they are elected here. The person he met with is now the chief justice and let me just tell you he's pretty bad.
your idea would work if the US Chamber of commerce wasn't targeting MS to create some kinda wild west free for all with our civil rights. i'd say that (per capita) no other state is getting as much money poured in to affect races. it is a depressing state of affairs.
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