Federal Judge stops congress from defunding planned parenthood...this is an act of congress...this shit only from the left!!

[bb1961]

New: Judge Stops Congress From Defunding Planned Parenthood, Outrage and Confusion Follow

In a stunning decision, a federal judge has provided relief to Planned Parenthood and stopped Congress from defunding the abortion giant.

Judge Indira Talwani of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a requested temporary restraining order on Monday. In doing so, she ordered the executive branch not to carry out the section of the recently passed congressional reconciliation package that stops funding Planned Parenthood and its member organizations.

Speaking as a layman, this seems patently insane to me. We aren't talking about an executive order where the base-level authority to take an action is being contested. This was passed by Congress and is currently the law of the land. How can a judge order the executive branch to violate a law passed by Congress without finding the law itself legally deficient in some way?

But it's not just non-lawyers like me who are scoffing at this. Those with years of professional legal experience are thoroughly confused as to how this judge managed to arrive at her conclusion.

As noted, the judge did not provide any reasoning for why she decided Planned Parenthood deserved relief in this situation. Typically, a TRO would accompany a memorandum and opinion expressing the belief that the plaintiff has a likely chance to succeed on the merits of a specific argument in later proceedings. That means we can only speculate as to what the logic here is, if any even exists, and there's a non-zero chance none does.

Some have suggested this is about viewpoint discrimination, but that seems ludicrous on its face. If politicians can't get elected by voters and pass laws to defund things they disagree with, then essentially nothing contentious can ever be defunded.

Heck, even some people who hate Donald Trump and support Planned Parenthood think this is crazy.

While one can hope this is overturned on appeal, and I'd guess it will be, every time a judge does something like this, it takes another bite out of the credibility of the judiciary. If nefarious parties can simply stall their way to overriding elected officials with specious legal reasoning, then why even have elections?

[txdot-guy]

The judge simply stayed the government while the lawsuit works its way through the court. The judge isn’t acting in a biased manner and he hasn’t made a ruling on the matter.

Until then everyone should reserve their judgment.

[Yssup Rider]

Impossible for many on here to do, txdot.

Please source your post, bb, because I know you didn’t write it.

“Only from the left” …. That part you wrote.

[farmstud60]

Originally Posted by txdot-guy

The judge simply stayed the government while the lawsuit works its way through the court. The judge isn’t acting in a biased manner and he hasn’t made a ruling on the matter.

Until then everyone should reserve their judgment.

But you are totally wrong, she gave no reason for ruling. It was not written like a normal Judicial ruling. That is from Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on Newsmax TV this morning.

[Yssup Rider]

A solid source.

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[rooster]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

A solid source.

Hahahahahahahahahah

Could we see it, please?

The wording of the original post seemingly quotes one, but doesn't link to it.

And I am too disinterested by the blatant partisan tone of it to try to find it myself. It seems to be "shit only from the right."

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