Shakes here...
Displeased with the new bankruptcy law, Judge Frank Monroe of Austin has issued a ruling including a scathing critique which, apparently, has set the legal world “abuzz.”
In his ruling, Monroe said the new federal bankruptcy law is full of traps for consumers, calling some of its provisions “inane,” “absurd” and incomprehensible to “any rational human being.”
He stopped just short of accusing Congress of being bought and paid for, dryly noting, “Apparently, it is not the individual consumers of this country that make the donations to the members of Congress that allow them to be elected and re-elected and re-elected and re-elected.”
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“Can any rational human being make a cogent argument that this makes any sense at all?” he wrote.
Monroe's opinion inspired Austin lawyer Randy Howry, president of the Austin Bar Association, to send it to all 3,700 members. He praised Monroe's order as “a reminder to us all that as lawyers and judges, we are the protectors of our democracy. . . . We must not sit idly by as our constitutional rights are being shredded.”
Code blue! Code blue! Somebody convene Judicial Sunday IV! We've got activist judges on our hands!
I know that Bush likes to say that the judiciary should interpret the law, not make it, so if they're interpreting laws as “inane,” “absurd” and incomprehensible to “any rational human being,” maybe the lawmakers need to head back to the drawing board.
(Hat tip Jedmunds.)
