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November 15, 2011

Ho Judge Shopping Pays Off

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Have robes. Will suck.

Judge Lucy Billings, who signed Occupy Wall Street order, is an ACLU veteran  - NY Daily News
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings signed an early-morning order temporarily barring cops from keeping protesters and tents out of Zuccotti Park. But within hours, she was off the case as court administrators prepared to randomly choose a new judge and excluded Billings name from the list of candidates. Billings biography notes that before she became a judge in 1997, she spent 25 years as a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. "I have devoted my career to public service, especially the disadvantaged in desperate circumstances," she wrote in a 2007 pre-election statement.

Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 15, 2011 9:00 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Apparently pooping in the street, and spreading communicable disease is a civil right. Who knew?

Posted by: stuart at November 15, 2011 9:30 AM

Bill,

On the other hand.....

You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. - Albert Einstein

Just sayin.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at November 15, 2011 11:19 AM

Billy Boy

in 1A, freedom of "assembly" does not mean "permanent residence, along with full dispensation from civil laws"

M'kay Einstein ?

Posted by: Anonymous at November 15, 2011 11:44 AM

Sure Bill, it says right there in the Bill of Rights, 'trespassing is just dandy...and by all means, shit where thou chooseth'.

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at November 15, 2011 1:40 PM

He's Bill Jones, and he approves of this message.

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at November 15, 2011 3:06 PM

Bill:

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written by men who believed in shooting at unruly mobs.

There have been no amendments to the effect that this basic sense of respect for law and order has been rescinded.

Posted by: Don Rodrigo at November 15, 2011 3:15 PM

Billy Boy

you believe, obviously. Good on you, Moonbeam.

Fine ... when we show up to camp out out on your PRIVATE PROPERTY just keep the mantra goin baby !

Repeat this mantra Billy Boy ...

OWA TANA SIAM

Posted by: OhioDuyde at November 15, 2011 4:17 PM

Billy, don't ever disagree with the gang mentality of a conservative blog, they start acting exactly like the gang mentality of a liberal blog.

Posted by: Biff at November 15, 2011 5:54 PM

Biff,

Bam. Pow.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at November 15, 2011 7:25 PM

Sorry the Bill of Rights doesn't cover destruction of property and violating squatting laws.

They have the right to peaceable assembly and speech, but not to camp in an area indefinitely in violation of city law. The judge wasn't just wrong but deliberately so in order to support a leftist cause.

The later court got it right: you can assemble and protest all you want. You just can't "occupy" an area and squat on it. No tents, no sleeping for weeks in an area.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 15, 2011 7:59 PM

Biff:
Yeah. Whatever the shortcomings of the Occupiers (and there are many), the conservative blogosphere has not exactly covered itself in glory during this episode.

Posted by: rickl at November 15, 2011 8:16 PM

Peaceable assembly does not mean infringing on the rights of others to conduct their lawful business, or to violate sanitation laws, or to create a public nuisance. Every TEA Party demonstration I have attended had a permit that limited the time we could demonstrate with a reminder not to obstruct traffic or create a public nuisance. We left the site cleaner than we found it. That is what peaceable assembly is about. When demonstrators step on the rights of others they are no longer assembling peaceably.

Posted by: Jimmy J. at November 15, 2011 9:23 PM

"the conservative blogosphere has not exactly covered itself in glory during this episode."

Say wha--? What the hell have we done? For myself, I apologize for washing regularly and shitting in private, because apparently filth is the new black when it comes to proper political protest tactics. I guess that means I'm "not covered in glory." Well, at least I'm not covered in something else.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at November 15, 2011 9:39 PM

Why is Truman Capote wearing a wig in that picture?

Posted by: Mumblix Grumph at November 15, 2011 11:11 PM

Mumblix, it's called transmogrification. That's what happens when one pursues Proggy causes.

Posted by: Peccable at November 16, 2011 3:52 AM

Biff, you're on to 'us'.
Perhaps you should coin a term, something novel...
Hmmm...Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?
Yeah, that would be it, wouldn't it?
So now you can go back to being an apologist for those who rape, act out violently, shit in public, spread disease and vermin, trespass, etc, all in the name of...whatever it is that they're claiming to be doing.
For 'us'.

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at November 16, 2011 9:06 AM

Uncle Jefe, you forgot the bozo who wanted to firebomb Macy's. That's all about sustainable peace through violence.

Posted by: Peccable at November 16, 2011 9:31 AM

Thank you, Peccable.
I also forgot the guy who shot at the White House with an AK-47.
Damn conservative Tea Partiers...

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at November 16, 2011 11:51 AM

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