Massachusetts GOP Seeking Injunction To Stop Senate Appointment

[Gothmog]

The Mass Gop has evidently sued to stop the appointment of new Mass Senator http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/massachusetts-gop-seeking-injunction-to-stop-senate-appointment.php?ref=fpblg

The Massachusetts Republican Party has gone to court in an attempt to stop the appointment of Paul Kirk to the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.

The issue here, the GOP claims, is that Gov. Deval Patrick did not have the constitutional authority to declare the bill empowering him to make an appointment to be an emergency law, thus having it take effect immediately. (For more background on this issue, check out this interview I did a few days ago with a GOP state Senator.)

[onehandle]

1. The party of NO. nt

[robinlynne]

2. of course they have.

[tridim]

3. So, it's "NO" once again. Big fucking surprise.

Wither GOP.

[Gothmog]

4. Here is another article on this lawsuit

http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1199781&pos=breaking

The Massachusetts Republican Party has filed an injunction in a Boston court seeking to block former Democratic Party chairman Paul Kirk from becoming the interim replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Lawmakers this week passed legislation giving Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim replacement, but laws approved in Massachusetts usually take 90 days to go into effect. Patrick signed an emergency letter that he says allows the law to become effective immediately.

Republicans allege in their court filing that Patrick did not have the constitutional authority to do that.

But State Secretary William Galvin said today the power to make the immediate appointment is "very clearly available" to Patrick.

Kirk, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, is set to be sworn Friday.

[Cha]

5. The gops are such scared widdle rabbits..

:scared::scared::scared:

[Joanne98]

6. Fuckers!

[Forkboy]

7. I guess I should have seen that coming.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

8. I do not understand

The GOP did nothing to hold up Al Franken:freak:

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. And they wonder why they're nothing but laughingstocks in this state.

Nice job, GOP. Your wilderness just got bigger.

[Gothmog]

10. Hearing tomorrow at 8:00 AM

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/60177-mass-gop-files-injunction-to-stop-appointment

UPDATE: A copy of the injunction indicates it was filed in Superior Court in Suffolk County at 10:51 a.m. The plaintiff is the state GOP, and Patrick is listed as the defendant.

State GOP spokeswoman Tarah Donoghue says "the goal of this injunction is that the law be followed, and now this is in the hands of the courts.

"To summarize, the injunction states that the Governor does not have the Constitutional authority in this situation to require that the law be immediately effective."

UPDATE 2: The state GOP reports a hearing on the injunction will be held at 8 a.m. Friday., which is before Kirk is scheduled to be sworn in at 3:15 p.m.