Clinton appointee U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon has joined his activist judicial brethren by striking down the law against gay marriage, passed by Nebraska voters. Bataillon found a portion of the law, which stated a ban on civil unions, unconstitutional. Bataillon said that the ban on gay marriage “imposes significant burdens on both the expressive and intimate associational rights and creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs’ right to petition or to participate in the political process.†Note: I have no idea how the ban on gay marriage, as Judge Bataillon stated, “creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs’ right to petition or to participate in the political processâ€ÂÂ. One has to be married to have a right to petition and participate in the political process? Is he saying that single people no longer have any rights? That doesn’t make any sense. When he wrote his ‘ruling’ was Judge Bataillon smoking some funny cigarette?
However, instead of simply striking down the portion of the voted on legislation that also bans the aforementioned civil unions, Judge Bataillon apparently decided to impose his own belief system by dismissing the law in its entirety. In a column I wrote last July, I predicted that any Defense of Marriage laws would be overturned and thrown out by activist judges. Unfortunately, it looks like I was right.
Judge Bataillon has now proudly united himself with the California and Florida Supreme Courts and the Ninth Circuit Court, amongst others, which consistently vote down the laws passed by voters; if these laws do not correspond to the judges’ personal desires. Although there is nothing ‘unconstitutional’ about a ban on gay marriage, growing groups of activist judges are regularly, with their decisions, rewriting state constitutions and the US Constitution.
The question “How does the minority Democrat Party remain in power and wield that power over the majority Republican Party?†has been firmly and unequivocally answered. All that needs to be effected is to use their Dem-appointed judges to impose its will and ideologies on US citizens. Note: This is why it is vital that Originalist judges are appointed to appellate and SCOTUS positions, instead of Activist judges.
Currently, the United States is locked in a battle of Socialism (the Marxist interim step before Communism) vs. Democracy. In 2004, the United States’ electorate voted for Democracy. But, the Dem appointed liberal and leftist activist judicial system is working overtime to ensure that the will of the people is blocked; each and every time these activist judges don’t agree with the decisions citizens make. As the liberal and leftist Dems continue to spew their phrase “every vote countsâ€ÂÂ, what they really mean is “every vote counts as long as you agree with usâ€ÂÂ. We already know what happens if the Dems do not agree with the voters. Whenever possible, they simply have their in-pocket judges throw out our decisions…and our votes. Is this any way to run a country? Sure it is. But, only if that country is ruled by a dictatorship. Unless we the people throw off our cloaks of complacency and rise up to firmly tell our elected officials to stop this headlong plunge into tyranny, this is what we will very soon be forced to endure.
