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RUSH: This Judge Sumi, the same Wisconsin judge who back in February in the middle of a statewide debate regarding labor unions, collective bargaining, this is the judge that refused the Madison school district's request to send the teachers back to work. They went on strike, the Madison school district, "Judge, will you send these teachers back to work so that the youths of Wisconsin could go through the motions of at least attempting to learn things here, to be taught?" The district asked this judge to impose a temporary restraining order to bar teachers from participating in further work stoppages. It referred to the teachers' protests in the capital as a strike, which are illegal under state law. The judge, Judge Sumi, the county judge, refused to categorize the work stoppage as a strike and said the district could not prove irreparable harm had been caused by the teachers walking out. Oh, okay, so they're not necessary, then. No irreparable harm to the students, to the pupils, the precious children, no irreparable harm by the teachers not showing up and doing their jobs? Fine, I guess the judge says that means they're not needed.
It's sort of like we're gonna lay off half the newsroom. Only nonessential people will be let go. Oh, so half your newsroom you don't need? I wonder how that makes the plagiarists who get laid off feel. Judge Sumi is a district county judge. We looked it up. She's got a very long history of judicial activism, and the complaint here again is that the Senate violated its own rules, open meeting rules. So they don't even need the Democrats to vote. Just give 24-hour notice and vote again. They don't need the Democrats. But the Democrats are back. Let 'em in there if they want. Just give 24 hours' notice. You know, my memory of this is that there was open access for this, access for additional people the meeting was denied, when they filled up. There wasn't any more room for them. Where was this judge when those 14 Democrats were violating the rules of the Wisconsin Senate by hiding out in another state? I wonder what woulda happened if somebody would have brought an action before her. She no doubt would have found in favor of the senators who had fled and were at the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between Wisconsin and Illinois.
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No. Does the state of Wisconsin have to temporarily suspend this law because somebody has told this judge, "You know what, the open meeting law was violated"? No. But the judge has taken it upon herself to assume just based on the lawsuit alone that the way the law was passed makes it invalid. This is judicial activism on parade. Now, let's pretend, just for the sake of this discussion, that the law really is invalid. Let's just pretend. I think that's BS. I think what we've got here is unadulterated, pure liberal activism. The left-wing blogs (I checked 'em at the top of the hour) are ecstatic. They are celebrating this as a triumph of the rule of law. It is the exact off of that. But let's say the law is invalid.
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RUSH: Okay, one more thing about what's going on in Wisconsin, and it is very simple. This judge, Judge Sumi, liberal activist judge, is wrong. From the rules of the Wisconsin Senate: "Senate Rule 93. Special, extended or extraordinary sessions. Unless otherwise provided by the senate for a specific special, extended or extraordinary session, the rules of the senate adopted for the regular session shall, with the following modifications, apply to each special session called by the governor," blah, blah, blah. "No notice of hearing before a committee shall be required ... and no bulletin of committee hearings shall be published," if the Senate is in special session. It was in special session. No notice was required. Right there in Wisconsin Senate Rule number 93. So in layman's terms, Senate Rule 93, state of Wisconsin clearly state no notice has to be given during a special or extraordinary committee hearing.
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