{"id":8976,"date":"2011-03-21T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:30:57","slug":"judicial-activist-blocks-wisconsin%e2%80%99s-union-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8976\/judicial-activist-blocks-wisconsin%e2%80%99s-union-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Activist Blocks Wisconsin\u2019s Union Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If at first liberals don\u2019t succeed, they <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/mar\/18\/nation\/la-na-wisconsin-unions-20110319\" target=\"_blank\">plead their case to a friendly judge<\/a>.\u00a0 Last Friday, a Wisconsin judge granted a temporary restraining order to block publication of the state\u2019s recently passed union law.\u00a0 (State law requires the Secretary of State to publish the contents of the law to the public in order for the law to be valid.)<\/p>\n<p>The law\u2019s opponents claim Wisconsin Republicans violated the state\u2019s open meetings law by negotiating the substance of the bill outside the normal committee hearing process.\u00a0 The judge says all Republicans have to do is re-pass the bill with adequate notice (i.e. 24 hours instead of 2).<\/p>\n<p>Where were these process-conscience Democrats when their federal counterparts rammed through ObamaCare while violating almost every legislative procedure?\u00a0 Where was the outrage when the Reid-Pelosi gang used the budget reconciliation process and \u2018deem-and-pass\u2019 to thwart deliberation?\u00a0 At least Wisconsin Republicans gave their absentee opponents a heads-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If at first liberals don\u2019t succeed, they plead their case to a friendly judge.\u00a0 Last Friday, a Wisconsin judge granted a temporary restraining order to block publication of the state\u2019s recently passed union law.\u00a0 (State law requires the Secretary of State to publish the contents of the law to the public in order for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,84,1561,77,764,2501,739,111,35,761,334,2412,1500],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-democrat-party","tag-harry-reid","tag-judicial-activism","tag-legislative-process","tag-liberal","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-obamacare","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-republican-party","tag-scott-walker","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8980,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}