Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Won’t Fight Gay Marriage Lawsuit
By TRIP GABRIEL
Published: July 11, 2013
Ms. Kane, a Democrat, traveled from Harrisburg, where the suit was filed in Federal District Court on Tuesday, to make her announcement at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. She quoted from Pennsylvania’s Constitution forbidding discrimination “against any person” and said that “disparate treatment” based on race, religion and ethnic origin were no longer tolerated, and “it is now the time here in Pennsylvania to end another wave of discrimination.”
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union with 23 plaintiffs, including 10 gay and lesbian couples, two teenage children of one couple and a widow who lost her partner of 29 years, cites a ruling last month by the Supreme Court striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
It was the first of a wave of lawsuits that activists are planning to file to expand the number of states allowing same-sex marriage, including in Virginia and North Carolina.
Attorneys general in Illinois and California have previously declined to defend their states in similar cases. In Pennsylvania, the general counsel’s office of Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, was seen as likely to pick up the defense.
Ms. Kane, who was elected attorney general last year and has been mentioned as a possible future candidate for governor, struck a political note in her brief announcement to an audience that cheered and applauded her decision.
“I looked at it this way, the governor’s going to be O.K.,” she said. She wondered, she added, who would represent “the Daves and Robbies, who represents the Emilys and Amys?”
“As attorney general,” she said, “I choose you.”
She's just saving you some money, dude. It's an unwinnable case.
ReplyDeleteSome state is going to waste a lot of money fighting this all the way to the Supreme Court, and losing. Might as well let it be Utah, or Idaho, or one of those other remote, alfalfa states.
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DeleteWhatever you say, Counselor.
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The House Republicans passed a farm bill, today - a farm bill with NO Nutritional Programs (school lunches, food stamps, etc.)
ReplyDeleteWhy is it my problem that some fat ass can’t be bothered to pack a lunch for her own kids? Should we pay someone to make home visits to change diapers and cook dinner while they are at it?
ReplyDeleteBUT, they DID substantially Increase payments to farmers.
ReplyDeleteFederal Nutrition Programs comprise, roughly, one-half of One percent of National GDP.
Delete1/2 of 1%
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To feed poor kids
DeleteIt's time to take the Republican Party's belt, and shoestrings; and put it on suicide watch.
DeleteIt was a silly symbolic vote by the House Republicans, and a mistake, if it is remembered. There will be no farm bill at all without the assistance programs. Maybe a continuing resolution gets passed and things remain the same until after next year's elections.
DeleteI am expecting the USA will soon be shipping emergency wheat supplies to Egypt, where the food supply is dwindling.
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>>>>WHEAT SUPPLIES
DeleteTwo and a half years of political turmoil has left Egypt on the brink of economic collapse, scaring away tourists and investors, shriveling hard currency reserves and threatening its ability to import food and fuel for its 84 million people.
Speaking to Reuters in a tent at a vigil by thousands of Mursi supporters, the ousted president's supply minister, Bassem Ouda, revealed that government stocks held just 500,000 tonnes of imported wheat.
Egypt, the world's biggest buyer, usually imports about 10 million tonnes of wheat a year, half of which is given out by the state in the form of subsidized bread sold for less than 1 U.S. cent a loaf.
The imported wheat stock figure, previously a closely guarded secret, means Egypt will need to urgently start spending a $12 billion financial aid lifeline it has been given in the past two days by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, rich Gulf states that welcomed Mursi's downfall.
Egypt had not bought any imported wheat since February, its longest absence from the market in years, until the eve of Mursi's downfall when it bought 180,000 tonnes.
State grain buying agency GASC said on Thursday it was unlikely to buy any more soon due to the increase in prices and availability of stocks in Egypt.
"I am confident we have enough stocks and hence it is unlikely we buy from the international market soon, especially with the current increase in prices," vice chairman Mamdouh Abdel Fattah told Reuters.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report that Egypt risked serious food security problems if insecurity and a shortage of foreign currency hindered imports.
"I think the aim of the Arab countries is to make sure Egypt doesn't fail with respect to food security and financial commitments with the international banking system, so I would think they will push to get the aid through quickly," said Kisan Gunjal, economist and food emergency Officer at the FAO<<<<
Egypt welcomes U.S. remarks on Mursi; food stocks dwindle
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/11/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE95Q0NO20130711
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire:
DeleteMercury News: (That Right Wing Bastion, Silicon Valley, CA)
"Each day in the 100 days leading up to Election Day, MercuryNews.com and Face the Facts USA will be partnering to bring you one exhaustively researched and vetted, non-partisan fact about a major issue facing our nation.
Food stamp costs are mushrooming.
More than 46 million Americans - about one in seven - rely on food stamps, the equivalent of the entire populations of Texas and New York.
The program now consumes 2 percent of the federal budget, or $78 billion in fiscal 2011. That's about the cost of the auto industry bailout. "
That's food stamps alone, I believe.
Delete...not to include school breakfast and lunch programs, I presume?
for "poor (morbidly obese) kids"
Just learned something interesting about the Zimmerman Trial from the lawyers and judge on the Hannity Show.
ReplyDeleteThe original prosecutor was fired because he/she refused to prosecute. They hired somebody who would.
FARCE
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ReplyDeleteThe Saudi Royal princess accused of keeping a Kenyan woman as a domestic slave posted bail of $5 million on Thursday night and is expected to be freed later in the evening.
Meshael Alayban, who is married to the grandson of the King of Saudi Arabia, appeared in an Orange County court in the morning dressed in a blue jumpsuit and answered the judge from behind grilled bars.
Uttering 'yes, your honor' several times during her time in the Santa Ana courtroom, Alayban, 42, was aided by an Arabic-speaking interpreter during the proceedings.
Alayban, 42, faces one felony count of human trafficking charges and up to 12 years in prison - she has not entered a plea yet - her arraignment is on July 29th...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2361396/Saudi-princess-accused-human-trafficking-freed-5-million-bail-humiliating-court-appearance-BARS--told-wear-GPS-tracking-device.html#ixzz2Ynt96yGb
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DeleteThere were four other girls being held in the same circumstances.
The DA says she could get up to 12 years in jail for human trafficking.
She's married to the grandson of the King of Saudi Arabia.
What do you think the chances of her spending more time in jail than it takes to pay the $5 million bail?
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Zero.
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Justice! - heh
ReplyDelete>>>Former Senatorial candidate Richard Rivette also expressed his shock at the judge’s behavior.
“This judge is an idiot. I spent five years investigating high profile capital cases defending people from the death penalty, and worked for the Federal judiciary as an independent investigator on other cases. No judge ever inquires as to whether a defendant will testify until the entire defense case is presented. If the defense rests and does not call the defendant then the judge knows there will be no testimony. If the defense calls the defendant then that’s when the judge finds out. They have to get through the entire case first. To see if it is valid after prosecution cross-examines their witnesses and experts as to whether a defendant SHOULD testify, which is decided in private not in public, and NOT on the record. By doing this, the judge has undermined a portion of Zimmerman’s credibility. He looks like he is waffling and this is normal judge/defendant questioning, which it is NOT,” said Rivette.<<<
Judge In Zimmerman Case Pressured by Obama Administration?
Bizarre outburst against Zimmerman suggests prejudice
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
July 11, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/judge-in-zimmerman-case-pressured-by-obama-administration/
>>>Speculation is raging that the judge in the George Zimmerman case could have been put under pressure by the Obama administration after she staged a bizarre outburst during which she interrogated Zimmerman while repeatedly silencing his lawyers.<<<
The fix is in. Or at least attempted.
>>>Now some are asking the question – did Nelson’s aggressive outburst represent an attempt to prejudice the jury against Zimmerman?
Given the likelihood that Zimmerman will be acquitted, has Judge Nelson been put under pressure by the federal government to aggressively advocate for the prosecution, just as Supreme Court Justice John Roberts was apparently pressured to vote to uphold Obamacare?<<<
Obama is nothing but a cheap thug.
Your court reporter,
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If he does get convicted of something this will be in the appeal.
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A cheap thug surrounded by cheap thugs.
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This country is really starting to suck.
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I was at the Senior Center today and failed a Health and Safety course that was put on for us old fogies. One of the questions was:
ReplyDelete'In the event of a fire, what steps would you take?'
'Fucking big ones was apparently the wrong answer.'
Thank you, Sam, for breaking my foul mood.
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire:
ReplyDeleteMercury News: (That Right Wing Bastion, Silicon Valley, CA)
"Each day in the 100 days leading up to Election Day, MercuryNews.com and Face the Facts USA will be partnering to bring you one exhaustively researched and vetted, non-partisan fact about a major issue facing our nation.
Food stamp costs are mushrooming.
More than 46 million Americans - about one in seven - rely on food stamps, the equivalent of the entire populations of Texas and New York.
The program now consumes 2 percent of the federal budget, or $78 billion in fiscal 2011. That's about the cost of the auto industry bailout. "
When a "fact" cite is needed, Rufie reaches into his fat ass and pulls out whatever is convenient.
ReplyDeleteI haven't believed a RufieFact for years.
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Another disappearing post syndrome, I will try again.
ReplyDeleteThe original prosecutor who would not take to trial is fired through political pressure, and is replaced by this clown of a man who would.
The 'judge' is politically pressured.
The 'Justice' department funds Justice for Trayvon events.
Obama says Trayvon is just like his son if he had a son. (This I can believe)
No President should ever interject himself into any court case.
And if Z should walk, the ObamaFlashMobs will immediately be out.
And you won't hear the President complaining.
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ReplyDelete"Speculation is raging..."
Who is doing this speculating?
"Now some are asking the question..."
Really? Who is asking these questions?
Well if you go deep enough to find out it's guys like BenJabo1Machal who drop informed comments like
Don't blame Nelson, she's following orders from Washington
Or the other nitwit that suggested the first three bullets in the upcoming race riot should be for Nelson and the First Daughters.
This is the kind of bull you paste here nightly, court reporter.
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Nay, the judge was entirely wrong. She was either pressured or not fit to be on the bench.
DeleteAlong with the lawyers any person with a brain would be asking these questions which is why you don't.
I did't read the comments.
Your court reporter,
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DeleteNo, you didn't read the comments. You just put up whatever the blog wrote without question. Half of what they wrote in the infowars post was in reference to the comments attached to the National Journal article.
And you post it, no questions asked.
>>>Now some are asking the question – did Nelson’s aggressive outburst represent an attempt to prejudice the jury against Zimmerman?
I saw the exchange on the local news tonight. It might have been a stupid question, but it wasn't asked in front of the jury, so it would be hard to prejudice them.
There are 15,000 homicides a year in the US and you come here daily with this bull about the trial of one flaming fucktard. Zimmerman may not be guilty of 2nd degree murder or even manslaughter but he is guilty of felony asshole. None of this would have even happened if this wannabee cop hadn't pushed the issue and had waited for the 'actual' cops to arrive.
Only a complete idiot would try to make a hero out of this jerk.
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Fuck you.
DeleteI have never said Z was a hero. What I have said is there was not enough evidence to even bring him to trial.
And I am saying he was brought to trial due to political pressure.
You are out of your league on this subject, Quirk.
I simply know more about it than you.
It stinks to high heaven.
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DeleteSure, you know more about it than I do.
I don't waste my time watching it while on the other hand you sit around all day consumed with this thing like trailer trash sitting around in his double-wide watching the soap opera of some dick who went out of his way to find trouble and did.
You, and the millions of others wasting their time watching this thing are pathetic.
Casey Anthony redux.
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Food Stamp Recipients up 140 percent since 1990.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/06/08/number-of-the-week-140-increase-in-food-stamp-use-since-1990/
The Ag Department is advertising to recruit new Food Stamp Recipients.
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"The Saudi Royal princess accused of keeping a Kenyan woman as a domestic slave posted bail of $5 million on Thursday night and is expected to be freed later in the evening."
ReplyDeleteWe all got Our Problems:
"Dymphna was born in Ireland during the 7th century. Dymphna's father Damon, a petty king of Oriel, was pagan, but her mother was a devout Christian. When Dymphna was 14 years old, her mother died. Damon had loved his wife deeply, and in the aftermath of her death his mental health sharply deteriorated.
(Ain't that the truth?)
When at length he decided to remarry, Damon sought to find a woman who resembled his deceased wife.
When no such woman could be found, Damon began to desire his daughter, because of the strong resemblance she bore to her mother. When Dymphna learned of her father's intentions she fled his court along with her confessor Father Gerebernus and two trusted servants. Together they sailed towards the continent, eventually landing in Belgium, where they took refuge in the town of Gheel.
One tradition states that once settled in Gheel, St. Dymphna built a hospice for the poor and sick of the region. Ironically, however, it was through the use of her wealth that her father would eventually ascertain her whereabouts, as some of the coins used enabled her father to trace them to Belgium.[2] Damon sent his agents to pursue his daughter and her companions. When their hiding place was discovered, Damon traveled to Gheel to recover his daughter. Damon ordered his soldiers to kill Father Gerebernus and tried to force Dymphna to return with him to Ireland, but she resisted. Furious, Damon drew his sword and struck off his daughter's head. She was 15 years old when she died.[3] After Dymphna and Gerebernus were martyred, the residents of Gheel buried them in a nearby cave. Years later, they decided to move the remains to a more suitable location. According to tradition, when workmen entered the cave to retrieve the two bodies they found that the bones of Dymphna and Gerebernus had been miraculously interred in two stone sarcophagi,[4] one of which bore a red tile with the inscription "DYMPHNA."
...luckily for her, I have no daughter.
Anybody got a spare stone sarcophagi?
ReplyDelete>>>Toward the end of his closing statement on Thursday, Florida Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda posted a slide on a screen in a fifth-floor Seminole County courtroom.
ReplyDelete"Which Owner would be more inclined to yell for help?" read the banner on the top of the slide. The slide was divided in two. On the left was a photo of George Zimmerman's Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun, and on the right was a can of Arizona Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail. Beneath the photo of the gun was the question, "Who followed?" Under the can was the question, "Who ran?"
So absurd was de la Rionda's presentation, and the whole case for that matter, that the can was turned sideways so the label could not be read. Throughout the trial, prosecutors have called the drink "iced tea" lest the word "watermelon" be said in court. "F***ing" was okay. De la Rionda said it more times than the average rapper, but "watermelon," apparently because of its racial connotations, was not.
Hiding the word "watermelon" was the least of de la Rionda's dishonesties. This one slide had several built in. As to who ran, Martin had four minutes to run the 100 or so yards to the house he was visiting. When he attacked Zimmerman, he was still 70 or so yards from that townhouse. Do the math.
Then, too, from the day the State took over the case, prosecutors knew that Zimmerman was the one screaming for help. All evidence supported that save for the dubious identification by Martin's mother. If the State's jobs were to sow the seeds of reasonable doubt, one could forgive them this deception, but that's not the State's job. That's the defense's.<<<<
July 12, 2013
Why the Zimmerman Prosecutors Should Be Disbarred
By Jack Cashill
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/why_the_zimmerman_prosecutors_should_be_disbarred.html#ixzz2YklGaqaG
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