On June 1, a U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania issued an opinion in Romanelli v DeWeese, middle district, 3:10-cv-1434. The plaintiff, Carl Romanelli, had sued various Democratic state legislators and legislative staff for using state resources to challenge the 2006 statewide Green Party petition. The opinion acknowledges that the Defendants broke state law, but says that there is no remedy in federal court for the problem. Here is the 18-page opinion.
Its a shame they won’t be paying any money back, because it seems like (at least to me) this is embezzlement of state funds to take out political opponents.
I wonder if they would have gotten away with it if it was the Republicans they were targeting, or vice versa.
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Wake up folks.
The top Donkey/Elephant folks are the ENEMIES of REAL Democracy — i.e. do NOT want any competition against their left/right control freak STATISM.
Lots of lower level party hack robot judges — following the party hack line.
This is SO typical! The dominant parties can get away with just about anything but if an alternative party fails to dot an “i” or cross a “t” then off to the dungeon with them!
The Fed judge can NOT detect that a party petition also may/will involve U.S.A. candidates — i.e. for U.S.A. Rep and U.S.A. Senator ???
More subversion of the Constitution — now almost continuous.