"I do not want your lawsuit on a plane, a train. I do not want it on a boat or a goat. You may not refile this lawsuit here or there; you may not refile it ANYWHERE."
Love how they decided it was necessary to teach a former state Governor the basics of the separation of powers under the Constitution. I remember when all that happened, thinking at the time, "He was convicted of corruption in ILLINOIS??? How BAD did he have to be?"
At least Illinois has laws and the gumption to throw them in jail, look at other states and their lack of laws or want to control the fucking crooks(Texas,Florida,etc.)
@@MMA10mm At the risk of "piling on," I was just as shocked as you. However, you didn't go far enough. The most shocking thing about this case is that EVERY member of the state legislature (save one) agreed on this. Or, anything!
Back in 1998, the tax court of Canada referenced the Monty Python dead parrot skit. "They simply refused to accept the parrot was not napping or meditating but was, in reality, extremely dead," the judge wrote.
After rhis smug criminal was pardoned and released he gave an interview that was wholly both shameless and unapologetic. So, with the pending Paris Olympics on my mind I'd rate this political turd (on a 1-10 scale) a 8.65.
A B.C. small claims court in 2020 sided with a guy named Michael Davy, who sued a store owner for selling him a defective parrot with a terminal disease.
0 seconds ago Next to citizens who thought the second amendment meant what the Constitution and the Supreme Court said instead of the voters of Cook county ,Chicago, who control the state .
"I went to law school at a place called Pepperdine in Malibu, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean - a lot of surfing and movie stars and all the rest. I barely knew where that law library was." - Rod Blagojevich
Not a lawyer, but I've read my fair share of legal decisions and, by comparison to what I've read in the past, that decision was speaking on the level of Seuss even before quoting Seuss. "Let me break this down into words of one syllable for you..."
In the 205 year history of Illinois there has been exactly ONE impeachment and conviction in Illinois !?! Given the horrific corruption rampant in that state, I find that statistic shockingly sad.
As a resident of western Indiana near the Illinois border, I see no strong evidence that the state of Illinois is appreciably more corrupt than anywhere else in the United States. They *_did_* actually impeach Rod Blagojevich, after all. If Illinois were truly as corrupt as people seem to think, impeachment never would have even been on the table. I have a strong suspicion that most of Illinois' reputation for corruption stems from the fact that more than three-quarters of Illinois' population live in the Chicago metropolitan area; people who live downstate don't feel adequately represented in the state legislature and complain loudly about it, even though their vote if anything actually counts for more than the average Chicagoan's because the downstate representatives are representing fewer people overall.
Excellent to hear a lawyer and a judge both state that an impeachment and a criminal case are completely different. Each had no bearing on the other. Time will tell if other federal judges agree.
He probably bribed somebody to get that degree. I doubt his days corruption started after his political career was in full swing. I'm sure he learned that graft and corruption are effective before he ever ran for office.
@@tuvoca825there was just another video Steve put out about 6 days ago, called "another state does away w/ mandatory bar exam"! Idk if you saw that one, but it seemed relevant to your question/comment. I haven't seen it yet but I'm gonna watch it next!
Just when you think it is sage to go back in the water, Rod Blagojevich jumps out again - LOL Illinois has deep rooted issues with institutionalized corruption. This guy is the poster child of what not to do. The fact he is suing to get back in the game tells me he has NO remorse for his actions.
As someone who always feels ashamed, even for stuff I didn't do, I almost grudgingly admire these politicians that are exposed to be just plain nasty and they still have the hutzpah to return and act as if nothing happened. Yeah, I know they are literally psychopaths, but it must be nice to live in their delusional world.
If morality is socially constructed, in Illinois he did nothing wrong. Truly, the only thing he did that wasn't socially expected of him was to get caught.
I lived in Illinois when Blagojevich was convicted and headed to prison. I knew, immediately, that he had no remorse. You'd think he had important affairs to put in order for his family while he was going to be locked up for the foreseeable future. But, nah, he was worried about not having access to hair dye, a blow dryer, and his favorite hair brush in prison. The guy is a piece of work.
Blagojevich’s big crime was not being corrupt. His crime was being stupid about it and getting caught in a way that embarrassed the political establishment in Illinois. Which is no less corrupt but they keep it on the downlow with at least a shred of deniability, no matter how implausible. ICYMI - The main offense Gov. Blagojevich was impeached for was trying to sell the appointment to fill Barack Obama’s Senate seat after he became President. Literally asking for cash, and complaining about not getting good offers for the appointment.
There's an unmentioned irony here. Frost mentioned that folk adage *disapprovingly*. The main point of Mending Wall is that traditional but unnecessary divisions are useless or worse. He ends the poem with a sad sigh at the neighbor: "He likes having thought of it so much he says it again."
@@MarcosElMalo2it's a rather common saying regarding self representation, though still not an often heard phrase given that's such a limited use case. Not sure of the origin, but it floats around here and there when relevant.
Another good read is Bradshaw v. Unity Marine, Inc. 147 F.Supp.2d 668. 2001 A.M.C. 2358. “Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words-to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. “
which quote the judge used? Dr. Seuss quotes: 10 I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. 9 Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. 8 You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. - Dr. Seuss 7 Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. - Dr. Seuss 6 A person's a person, no matter how small. - Dr. Seuss 5 Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. - Dr. Seuss 4 You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. - Dr. Seuss 3 The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss 2 Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! - Dr. Seuss 1 Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss
My favorite court opinion was essentially: FDA: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Stop it.” 5th Circuit Court of Appeals: “FDA is not a physician.” “Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond FDA’s statutory authority.” Another ”Stay in your lane,” but directed at the bureaucracy.
The real irony is that preventing access to the human preparation, people headed to the feed store. Actually made a safe drug more prone to dosage errors.
Holy smokes! A judge with common sense, a proper sense of justice, AND a sense of humor!?! HERE'S a candidate for SCOTUS folks. *Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.*
I chuckled when you used the word "smackdown", but my jaw dropped and I got bug-eyed as I listened to you read the excerpts. "Smackdown" is a perfect description, in addition to being a polite way to avoid saying "b!tch slapped".
Can’t believe you can spell his name. I’m from IL and I have spent so much time calling him Bagofshit that I have forgotten how to even spell it anymore. 🤣
The root problem with political office is that those who should be in office would never touch it with a ten foot pole. Their morals would never let them have control over other peoples lives, they also know the toll it takes on good people. This leaves those looking for political positions are those shouldn't have it in the first place. Those who have shifting morals and enjoy having the power over others.
@@MF-ty2zn --Read what the court said. "blago illinois courtlistener" will get you there. --Note where he says "within the meaning of the 14th amendment". Courts often construe the meaning of words to avoid internal conflicts within the Constitution. He says from the getgo on page 2: --"For starters, Blagojevich cannot sue the State of Illinois under section 1983. That statute authorizes a claim against a “person” for violating federal rights. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983. But a state is not a “person,” as the Supreme Court explained decades ago. See Will v. Mich. Dep’t of State Police, 491 U.S. 58, 71 (1989) (“We hold that neither a State nor its officials acting in their official capacities are ‘persons’ under § 1983.”); Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, 520 U.S. 43, 69 (1997) (“We have held . . . that § 1983 actions do not lie against a State.”); Howlett ex rel. Howlett v. Rose, 496 U.S. 356, 365 (1990) (“[A]n entity with Eleventh Amendment immunity is not a ‘person’ within the meaning of § 1983.”). Despite what its name might suggest, the Land of Lincoln isn’t a person."
Regardless of your disagreement with longstanding case law, the judge has also said that plaintiff lacks standing because he has demonstrated no harm to himself.
@@christopherkidwell9817That’s false. The fact that writing in a name on the ballot makes your vote insignificant (you are throwing away your vote) is not the same as an election worker or official literally throwing your ballot away. You’re confusing metaphorical language with literal language. Or perhaps you’re just making stuff up, which is worse.
No wonder Blago filed such an ignorant suit: "I went to law school at a place called Pepperdine in Malibu, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean - a lot of surfing and movie stars and all the rest. I barely knew where that law library was."
That "no criminal consequences of impeachment" is relevant to Trump's argument that there's something wrong with accusing him of stuff without a successful indictment. That, too, assumes criminal consequences for an indictment.
Would love to hear a debate between this judge and the Supreme's that appointed George W. Bush as president. Talk about interfering with state's rights. Of course that decision is made worse by the fact that Bush actually lost. The Supreme's only had the right to demand a full count of all votes in Florida, nothing more.
So you apparently are incapable of, or refuse to, understand that the Supreme Court upheld the power of the Florida Legislature to decide what counted as votes, and not judges, since Gore wanted the judges and the Democrat poll workers in Miami to decide.
You are mistaken. A state is an entity. So is a corporation, but the twisted minds of the Supreme Court decided to give it personhood. Wonder how they are going to handle that one with their abortion debacle. If you conceive of starting a corporation and find its not viable, will you go to jail for getting rid of it?
Blago is looking for a way to get back to work in politics. I think he needs to get comfortable with a new work phrase. "Hi, I'm Rod. May I take your order?" "Would you like to super-size that?"
Exactly now because of the absurdity of this and how much they disdain him specifically they have unequivocally stood firmly on the actual letter of the law and set a precedent which can now be cited. This is going to come back around and it will come back around in a very very BIG case. Am I psychic? Maybe 😂
Published in 1972, "Marvin K.Mooney Will You Please Go Now!" was inspired by Richard Nixon. My father was a huge Nixon fan, and made me read Nixon's autobiography. "I was born in the house my father built" is all I remember. I wrote Nixon a letter in 1971(I was 8) and got a form letter and 8 X 10 photo - how cool.
And perhaps interestingly, the Nixon case cited here did not concern Richard Nixon. That impeachment precedent was set in the case of federal judge Walter Nixon.
This is an amazing opinion! Love it! This guy might not even get hired by Trump. The opinion I used to think was the funniest was written by US District Judge Samuel Kent, chastising some Philadelphia lawyers in Stephanie Smith vs. Colonial Penn Insurance Co. for filing a motion to transfer for the convenience of the lawyers. However, Judge Kent’s opinions became much less funny when he was convicted of sexually abusing two female employees and sentenced to 3 years in prison. He then tried to retire because of a “disability” so he could continue to receive his salary for life, but Congress started impeachment proceedings, inducing the former judge to resign and forfeit his retirement.
I incorporated teaching the U.S. and state constitutions into my teaching, including how impeachment works (it’s a state law where we live), but that doesn’t mean everybody learned it. It’s like 8th grade general science, where some people who pass that course think it’s possible to weigh in milliliters. Then again, I read somewhere than more than half of all college grads can’t do percents- so there you go.
The moment you said the guy's name, the years just dropped away and I could remember all the tv and radio news segments about him. And he wants the right to go back into the mixmaster of politics? Why can't he just pump gas or flip burgers like the rest of us?
C'mon now. Would YOU hire him to flip a burger YOU were going to eat? Or to pump 10 gallons you paid for, instead of spilling it and then dropping a match?
Trump is also being very blatant about how he does not actually care about the people. When will the Republicans make him face the consequences of refusing border control and refusing aid to the victim of an invasion? You should not have to be a rocket scientist or a three star general to realize that fall of Ukraine will give China the final bit of confidence to invade Taiwan with Russia’s blessings, and there goes the wheat, oil, and semiconductor prices up the roof…
I was in Court once, waiting to have my matter dealt with, Counsel was appearing in the matter before me, he quoted a Dire Straights song, the Judge took up bridge at the quote, so he backed up the quote with the “classic” phrase and was “charged” with Contempt, tried on the spot and convicted. I then specially went to the Appeal that was filed, when it was heard by the Full Court. The Full Court drop kicked the Conviction out the door, citing that it could NOT be a contempt to quote literature to the Court that made a salient point. The use of the “classic” phrase was so embedded in the social language and in the “rough and tumble” of court, no Court could take offence. The Full Court then characterised the Judge as being uneducated and thin skinned!
I am a great big fan of the constitution and our legal system. That was amazing. It was literary. It was fantastically descriptive of the legal issues, and I think every constitutional law class should be forced to read that opinion, but only after they go through the complaint and try to find the most problems with it. thank you. Thank you, Sam I am.
actual I have a medical diagnosis from a doctor. Not some school administrator trying to beef up their disabled ranks to add extra funding like they do in California. By saying half the class has A.D.D
To give you an idea of how bad the impeachment was for the governor, there has been a long line of politicians in IL that have done awful things whom the legislature wouldn't consider for a second about impeaching. For example, the electric company with a monopoly in Chicago got fined hundreds of millions of dollars for giving a bribe to an 'unnamed' representative and no recourse was sought regarding the representative who accepted that bribe even though absolutely everyone in the state knows his identity.
Obama. That is nothing.. In the first few weeks after taking office in the aftermath of the JFK murder, Johnson either pardoned or commuted sentences of pretty much most, if not all, of the 'organized crime' members then in Federal prison... presumably as payment for assistance in the process by which he rose to the Presidency.
I’m actually confused with this case. Because Illinois is so rooted in corruption, I’m actually surprised the legislature turned on one of their own dems. The fact they have continued to stay against him is just as confusing. He fits right in with all the state corruption. 😂😂😂
He’s a threat to all their corruption. They want to destroy America to line their pockets in peace. He got too well known, if they don’t do something, people will start to notice.
It was an internal battle within the party. The Speaker of the House (the true King of Illinois for decades) got pushed out too, a few years after. It was about the back benchers chaffing at being under the thumb of those at the top of the party - that it, wanting to replace them It wasn't The Untouchables, it was Game of Thrones.
While I applauded Blago's conviction, I also applauded Trump's commutation. I agreed that he had been oversentenced, particularly in light of so many other crooks in Illinois' government. (Look how many governors have gone to prison.)
Rod Blagojevich, that is a blast from the past. I grew up in Illinois but live in NH now. I remember when this happens and have kept a cartoon that says: "Illinois where our governor make our license plates" referring to Blagojevich and Ryan.
@@aaronself2411 Except that I didn't. I'm making my comment on different grounds. Of course it's a garbage case and ol' Blago should be even more ashamed than he already is. I'm just asking the question, not making the argument.
"how does he not have standing to bring suit as a voter?" He didn't bring it on his own behalf; he invoked "voters" collectively. I suppose he could have named only his own right to vote; which apparently being a felon, he does not have anyway.
I loved "He Exited Stage Left" @ 2:04 the bonus reference to the Snagglepuss cartoon that started out as a cameo in a Quick Draw McGraw cartoon in 1959. Snagglepuss was always using the phrase "Exit stage left" or "right" and on some occasions up or down. It would have been perfect if they used his other famous line "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" before the Dr Seuss line.
Thank you il.its about time these corrupt people gets held accountable,and then this clown wants to run for office again, when is it enuf and just say NO!!!
My question is, where do we separate the STATE constitutions and the Federal constitution. Not a lawyer here, but these folks seem to invoke one in turn of the other as they desire??? As we have just witnessed, SCOTUS just just sent back a states decision on this basis.
But they still get bought over and over… hmm how is that? Fake PAC’s, intelligence operatives, lobbyist groups. It’s happening but you’ll not be allowed to know that.
After the dust settled in Gore v Bush, a group of Florida newspapers sued, got the Florida ballots that were being disputed, counted them and Bush’s small lead actually increased.
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"I do not want your lawsuit on a plane, a train. I do not want it on a boat or a goat. You may not refile this lawsuit here or there; you may not refile it ANYWHERE."
One has to wonder why Pres Trump pardoned this guy.
@@jtjones4081 I can think of one million reasons.
@@jtjones4081This is the field that some people use for entertainment, however subtle.
@@jtjones4081Not pardoned.
😅😄😉
Love how they decided it was necessary to teach a former state Governor the basics of the separation of powers under the Constitution. I remember when all that happened, thinking at the time, "He was convicted of corruption in ILLINOIS??? How BAD did he have to be?"
Offering Obama’s US Senate seat to the highest bidder bad… 😂
I seem to remember he was like the forth out of five Illinois governors to be convicted of felonies? Selling a Senate seat, that was kind of original.
But the last 3 or 4 had been convicted too.
It's actually a good sign.
At least Illinois has laws and the gumption to throw them in jail, look at other states and their lack of laws or want to control the fucking crooks(Texas,Florida,etc.)
@@MMA10mm
At the risk of "piling on," I was just as shocked as you. However, you didn't go far enough.
The most shocking thing about this case is that EVERY member of the state legislature (save one) agreed on this.
Or, anything!
One crook,
Two crook,
Red crook,
Blue crook.
Welcome to Crook County and Illinois!
@@ward7voter111Crook County hell, welcome to Federal Congress !
That certainly goes for every state and blue and red no matter who they are. They’re all crooked.
Both governors Blue crooks in Illinois ….
Mostly blue in Illinois
Back in 1998, the tax court of Canada referenced the Monty Python dead parrot skit. "They simply refused to accept the parrot was not napping or meditating but was, in reality, extremely dead," the judge wrote.
After rhis smug criminal was pardoned and released he gave an interview that was wholly both shameless and unapologetic. So, with the pending Paris Olympics on my mind I'd rate this political turd (on a 1-10 scale) a 8.65.
A B.C. small claims court in 2020 sided with a guy named Michael Davy, who sued a store owner for selling him a defective parrot with a terminal disease.
And that parrot skit was before the "I'm a lumberjack" skit. 😂
That option is no more, it is an ex-opinion, it has ceased to be. It actually was retracted.
@@dwaynepenner2788 It may be ex, but it was said nevertheless. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Got to love a politician that can bring the Repubs AND Dems together in a common cause!
Why not? Both owned by the same money!
Isn’t it crazy that he received a presidential pardon/commutation and let out of prison from Trump?c
He was a "uniter".
The Illinois state motto; “Where our former governors make out license plates.”
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Next to citizens who thought the second amendment meant what the Constitution and the Supreme Court said instead of the voters of Cook county ,Chicago, who control the state .
Govs. Blago and Ryan were actually in prison at the same time (briefly, although not in the same prison).
I call them thing one and thing two.
I think "RNC Chair" is about to take the belt for most incarcerated title.
I wonder what America gonna say when Trump is jailed?
"That impeachment was partisan!"
"Which party did it?"
"ALL of them! See how partisan it is when ALL of them do it? It is double partisan!"
😀
That doesn’t rhyme at all
Is that double-secret partisanship?
@@mikesmovingimages well, TECHNICALLY, it was all of State Congress vs. 1 house member.
Well, those who believe we have a "uniparty" might agree.
"I went to law school at a place called Pepperdine in Malibu, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean - a lot of surfing and movie stars and all the rest. I barely knew where that law library was." - Rod Blagojevich
😯
So cool was part of passing the bar? Duuuuude!
lock him up
lock him up
lock him up
Plot twist: There is no law library. There is only a building that houses books. How could any reasonable person equate the two?
@@KamalasNotLikeUs just every season of Law & Order
A Kentucky Court of Appeals judge once referenced and quoted Yoda in an opinion. He said "Do or do not, there is no try."
Also used in Criminal Minds.
@@markbonner1139that overrated garbage, whoduh thunk it?
Corruption in Illinois? Imagine that. First time for everything.
I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
The only corruption is tge racist racists who are persucuting Tiffany Henyard, The Super Mayor!
hahaha. yeah, 1st.
Louisiana is worse. Actually you can throw in Mississippi & Texas in there also.
Man who knew 🙃
"Exit stage left" is a quote from none other than Snagglepuss. ( Among others, I'm sure. )
nerd
@@BlackJesus8463 Someone has to be able to speak intelligently for the jocks.
@@BlackJesus8463 No, just a child of the 50's & 60's.
I think its from Shakespeare, exit stage left pursued by a bear.
Bugs Bunny for one
Not a lawyer, but I've read my fair share of legal decisions and, by comparison to what I've read in the past, that decision was speaking on the level of Seuss even before quoting Seuss. "Let me break this down into words of one syllable for you..."
In the 205 year history of Illinois there has been exactly ONE impeachment and conviction in Illinois !?! Given the horrific corruption rampant in that state, I find that statistic shockingly sad.
Yes, it's a very telling statistic indeed...
Correlation does not always equal causation. In this case, however, I think the connection is fairly obvious.
the inmates run that nuthouse.
As a resident of western Indiana near the Illinois border, I see no strong evidence that the state of Illinois is appreciably more corrupt than anywhere else in the United States. They *_did_* actually impeach Rod Blagojevich, after all. If Illinois were truly as corrupt as people seem to think, impeachment never would have even been on the table.
I have a strong suspicion that most of Illinois' reputation for corruption stems from the fact that more than three-quarters of Illinois' population live in the Chicago metropolitan area; people who live downstate don't feel adequately represented in the state legislature and complain loudly about it, even though their vote if anything actually counts for more than the average Chicagoan's because the downstate representatives are representing fewer people overall.
It may just be a comment on the level of corruption that it doesn't happen.
Excellent to hear a lawyer and a judge both state that an impeachment and a criminal case are completely different. Each had no bearing on the other. Time will tell if other federal judges agree.
The plaintiff has a law degree too 🥶🤦♂️
What school ? 😂
I hear now they don't even require the bar exam in some places.
Maybe the bar should be an alternative to school ??
@@tuvoca825 Pepperdine
He probably bribed somebody to get that degree. I doubt his days corruption started after his political career was in full swing. I'm sure he learned that graft and corruption are effective before he ever ran for office.
@@tuvoca825there was just another video Steve put out about 6 days ago, called "another state does away w/ mandatory bar exam"! Idk if you saw that one, but it seemed relevant to your question/comment. I haven't seen it yet but I'm gonna watch it next!
Just when you think it is sage to go back in the water, Rod Blagojevich jumps out again - LOL
Illinois has deep rooted issues with institutionalized corruption.
This guy is the poster child of what not to do.
The fact he is suing to get back in the game tells me he has NO remorse for his actions.
As someone who always feels ashamed, even for stuff I didn't do, I almost grudgingly admire these politicians that are exposed to be just plain nasty and they still have the hutzpah to return and act as if nothing happened. Yeah, I know they are literally psychopaths, but it must be nice to live in their delusional world.
If morality is socially constructed, in Illinois he did nothing wrong. Truly, the only thing he did that wasn't socially expected of him was to get caught.
I lived in Illinois when Blagojevich was convicted and headed to prison. I knew, immediately, that he had no remorse. You'd think he had important affairs to put in order for his family while he was going to be locked up for the foreseeable future. But, nah, he was worried about not having access to hair dye, a blow dryer, and his favorite hair brush in prison. The guy is a piece of work.
Blagojevich’s big crime was not being corrupt. His crime was being stupid about it and getting caught in a way that embarrassed the political establishment in Illinois. Which is no less corrupt but they keep it on the downlow with at least a shred of deniability, no matter how implausible.
ICYMI - The main offense Gov. Blagojevich was impeached for was trying to sell the appointment to fill Barack Obama’s Senate seat after he became President. Literally asking for cash, and complaining about not getting good offers for the appointment.
@@MrJeffcoley1Jobs for your family is the Illinois tradition, envelopes of cash are for idiots.
Also quoted Robert frost. Good fences make good neighbors.
He's correct.
Good neighbors make good fences, he meant.
good catch
Loved the Robert Frost verse!
There's an unmentioned irony here. Frost mentioned that folk adage *disapprovingly*. The main point of Mending Wall is that traditional but unnecessary divisions are useless or worse.
He ends the poem with a sad sigh at the neighbor: "He likes having thought of it so much he says it again."
Who said that judges don't have a sense of humor and are not above seriously dissing someone. Who wants to bet that Bloggo won't try to appeal?
I'll take that bet, if he tried this far, he will try more.
@@yoyoclockEbayWhen he has a reasonable legal basis for his appeal... he should appeal.
@christopherkidwell9817 I disagree, simply because he can appeal regardless if his appeal has merit or not.
"Now comes the defendant, Pro Se"..... "To represent oneself, is to have a fool for a client".
Did you come up with that youself? It’s so insightful.
@@MarcosElMalo2it's a rather common saying regarding self representation, though still not an often heard phrase given that's such a limited use case. Not sure of the origin, but it floats around here and there when relevant.
Lincoln?
Another good read is Bradshaw v. Unity Marine, Inc. 147 F.Supp.2d 668.
2001 A.M.C. 2358. “Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words-to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. “
which quote the judge used?
Dr. Seuss quotes:
10
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
9
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
8
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. - Dr. Seuss
7
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. - Dr. Seuss
6
A person's a person, no matter how small. - Dr. Seuss
5
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. - Dr. Seuss
4
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. - Dr. Seuss
3
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss
2
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! - Dr. Seuss
1
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss
Wonderful 🙂 Thank you
Thanks❤
Blagojevich's legal complaint reads as follows,, "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". :)
My favorite court opinion was essentially: FDA: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Stop it.”
5th Circuit Court of Appeals: “FDA is not a physician.”
“Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond FDA’s statutory authority.”
Another ”Stay in your lane,” but directed at the bureaucracy.
Shame that so many in Congress and in state legislatures seem determined to practice reproductive health care.
The real irony is that preventing access to the human preparation, people headed to the feed store. Actually made a safe drug more prone to dosage errors.
But pushed the safe and effective
@@katiekane5247Although the dose per pound body weight was the same.
@@alli3219If an idea sounds so good it has to be pushed, maybe it's too good to be true.
Holy smokes! A judge with common sense, a proper sense of justice, AND a sense of humor!?!
HERE'S a candidate for SCOTUS folks.
*Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.*
@@Curmudgeon2In a thread from "Men in Black"... We do not have a sense of humor that we are aware of...
@@johannesnoneoftheabove9957👍
The Lorax?
I chuckled when you used the word "smackdown", but my jaw dropped and I got bug-eyed as I listened to you read the excerpts. "Smackdown" is a perfect description, in addition to being a polite way to avoid saying "b!tch slapped".
I am so glad for this opinion. I was very upset when he was pardoned. He deserved to sit in jail and at the least never serve office again.
Blagojevich is the democrat version of trump 😒
Steve said "commuted". My understanding of that is, he is still a convicted felon; he just can sit somewhere else.
@davidh9638 is right. Trump *reduced Blago's sentence;* he did not pardon Blago.
Can’t believe you can spell his name. I’m from IL and I have spent so much time calling him Bagofshit that I have forgotten how to even spell it anymore. 🤣
@@KM-zu9we Google, Google's search spell checking, and copy and paste are how I "spelled" his name correctly in a different comment. 😀
I can't get over the fact. He was selling President Obama's seat.
Hey, it's a flippin' valuable thing.
I agree. So… isn’t it crazy that he received a presidential pardon/commutation and let out of prison from Trump?
Grifters gotta protect their profession.
The root problem with political office is that those who should be in office would never touch it with a ten foot pole. Their morals would never let them have control over other peoples lives, they also know the toll it takes on good people.
This leaves those looking for political positions are those shouldn't have it in the first place. Those who have shifting morals and enjoy having the power over others.
"So you did not see the defendant flee?
You're saying you lied in your testimony?
Why is this case in front of me?
You're going to prison."
The state is not a person, yet a corporation is a person. Go figure.😮
Within the meaning of the 14th amendment, Sates are not "born in", nor "subject to the jurisdiction" of the united States.
People formed the corporations therefore, it's double dipping.
@@MF-ty2zn --Read what the court said. "blago illinois courtlistener" will get you there.
--Note where he says "within the meaning of the 14th amendment". Courts often construe the meaning of words to avoid internal conflicts within the Constitution. He says from the getgo on page 2:
--"For starters, Blagojevich cannot sue the State of Illinois under section 1983. That statute authorizes a claim against a “person” for violating federal rights. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983. But a state is not a “person,” as the Supreme Court explained decades ago. See Will v. Mich. Dep’t of State Police, 491 U.S. 58, 71 (1989) (“We hold that neither a State nor its officials acting in their official capacities are ‘persons’ under § 1983.”); Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, 520 U.S. 43, 69 (1997) (“We have held . . . that § 1983 actions do not lie against a State.”); Howlett ex rel. Howlett v. Rose, 496 U.S. 356, 365 (1990) (“[A]n entity with Eleventh Amendment immunity is not a ‘person’ within the meaning of § 1983.”). Despite what its name might
suggest, the Land of Lincoln isn’t a person."
"The state is not a person, yet a corporation is a person."
Yes. That is why "corp" (corpus; body) is part of the name corporation.
Regardless of your disagreement with longstanding case law, the judge has also said that plaintiff lacks standing because he has demonstrated no harm to himself.
This opinion, in and of itself, is a great lesson on the Constitution and separation of powers
The "Right" to vote for him is still there...a voter can WRITE HIM IN on the ballot...thus casting a vote for him if they so choose.
No, it isn't... numerous times 'write-ins' are just thrown in the trash and if you have a writing disability... need I say more?
@@christopherkidwell9817 Sigh. 🙄
100% correct. In fact, the first amendment right to vote for Rod Blagojevich extends to all voters in any state in any election.
@@christopherkidwell9817That’s false. The fact that writing in a name on the ballot makes your vote insignificant (you are throwing away your vote) is not the same as an election worker or official literally throwing your ballot away.
You’re confusing metaphorical language with literal language. Or perhaps you’re just making stuff up, which is worse.
Write him all you want. He still can't serve.
What kind of person would pardon a blatantly obvious criminal like this? (looks it up) Oh. Right.
It’s rare that a federal judge gives Illinois anything to smile about. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day!
No wonder Blago filed such an ignorant suit: "I went to law school at a place called Pepperdine in Malibu, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean - a lot of surfing and movie stars and all the rest. I barely knew where that law library was."
Pepperdine is a private very expensive university. I don’t know about the law school but this guy is smart just a narcissist like trump .
Of course he got pardoned...from one criminal to another.
He wasn't pardoned, try to keep up.
That "no criminal consequences of impeachment" is relevant to Trump's argument that there's something wrong with accusing him of stuff without a successful indictment. That, too, assumes criminal consequences for an indictment.
"there's something wrong with accusing him of stuff without a successful indictment. "
Yes; that would be libel and/or slander.
Would love to hear a debate between this judge and the Supreme's that appointed George W. Bush as president. Talk about interfering with state's rights. Of course that decision is made worse by the fact that Bush actually lost. The Supreme's only had the right to demand a full count of all votes in Florida, nothing more.
So you apparently are incapable of, or refuse to, understand that the Supreme Court upheld the power of the Florida Legislature to decide what counted as votes, and not judges, since Gore wanted the judges and the Democrat poll workers in Miami to decide.
If a state isn't a person, it doesn't also enjoy sovereign immunity. They cannot eat their cake, and have it too.
wat
EXACTLY. 👍🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏿
You are mistaken. A state is an entity. So is a corporation, but the twisted minds of the Supreme Court decided to give it personhood. Wonder how they are going to handle that one with their abortion debacle. If you conceive of starting a corporation and find its not viable, will you go to jail for getting rid of it?
Wait! Illinois had a crooked politician? I'm shocked! SHOCKED, I say!
Blagojevich is the democrat version of Trump🤪
Most politicians are crooks.
@@duran9664you mean Biden
"I won't allow another scam. I won't allow it, Rod-I-Am."
He was trying to sell Obama's seat to the highest bidder.
Did Rod go to Trumph U school of grifting?
@@davidsmith385 -- that's the bizarre part. Rod's a Democrat. Why would Trump want to pardon him?
I sure hope Dr. Seuss got a citation for those quotes.
Steve Lehto reading me Dr.Suess, quoting The Court. 😊
That's why I moved out of Illinois in 2000 and drove 82 miles to work
Blago is looking for a way to get back to work in politics. I think he needs to get comfortable with a new work phrase. "Hi, I'm Rod. May I take your order?" "Would you like to super-size that?"
Or he should learn to code.
I have a feeling this case may show up in future law school curricula.
Nothing new here.
Yet it very much seems that courts stay in their own lane only when they choose to. They freely choose where their lanes run.
Exactly now because of the absurdity of this and how much they disdain him specifically they have unequivocally stood firmly on the actual letter of the law and set a precedent which can now be cited. This is going to come back around and it will come back around in a very very BIG case. Am I psychic? Maybe 😂
I love your channel. You cover interesting cases and explain things so they are understood.
Great story...Thank you for sharing and the nuances of the law and constitution. Great story...
Published in 1972, "Marvin K.Mooney Will You Please Go Now!" was inspired by Richard Nixon. My father was a huge Nixon fan, and made me read Nixon's autobiography. "I was born in the house my father built" is all I remember. I wrote Nixon a letter in 1971(I was 8) and got a form letter and 8 X 10 photo - how cool.
And perhaps interestingly, the Nixon case cited here did not concern Richard Nixon. That impeachment precedent was set in the case of federal judge Walter Nixon.
Still can hear my mother's voice from reading that same book to my 3yr boy - who's 29 now! RIP mom...
He should be just thankful he got an undeserved pardon but then again look who pardoned him, lying crooks tend to stick together.
No I wasn't a Democrat that pardoned him
@@DavidMiller-yc5ol I know; it was a common & crook that pardoned him. What your point?
This is an amazing opinion! Love it! This guy might not even get hired by Trump.
The opinion I used to think was the funniest was written by US District Judge Samuel Kent, chastising some Philadelphia lawyers in Stephanie Smith vs. Colonial Penn Insurance Co. for filing a motion to transfer for the convenience of the lawyers.
However, Judge Kent’s opinions became much less funny when he was convicted of sexually abusing two female employees and sentenced to 3 years in prison. He then tried to retire because of a “disability” so he could continue to receive his salary for life, but Congress started impeachment proceedings, inducing the former judge to resign and forfeit his retirement.
Steve I am hugely surprised about what you said about what impeachment is and isn't. I might have to buy that book now. Thank you.
I incorporated teaching the U.S. and state constitutions into my teaching, including how impeachment works (it’s a state law where we live), but that doesn’t mean everybody learned it. It’s like 8th grade general science, where some people who pass that course think it’s possible to weigh in milliliters. Then again, I read somewhere than more than half of all college grads can’t do percents- so there you go.
Pardons need to be seriously examined.
I don't know how, but it needs to change. Those are handed out like favors, not used to right wrongs.
The moment you said the guy's name, the years just dropped away and I could remember all the tv and radio news segments about him. And he wants the right to go back into the mixmaster of politics? Why can't he just pump gas or flip burgers like the rest of us?
C'mon now. Would YOU hire him to flip a burger YOU were going to eat? Or to pump 10 gallons you paid for, instead of spilling it and then dropping a match?
Point taken.
Ben’s on the Cobra. Almost threw in the TOWEL because it took so long for the post to drop.
Now there's humility, came in 2nd but "almost threw in the towel"...😉😂
Mornin' Bill
@@Bobs-Wrigles5555 I know, & it didn’t drop for you until tomorrow!
G’nite Bob.
Just remember it’s not that the IL Democrats were against what Blago did, it was he was too blatant about it and he was embarrassing them.
Blagojevich is the democrat version of Trump🤪
Trump is also being very blatant about how he does not actually care about the people. When will the Republicans make him face the consequences of refusing border control and refusing aid to the victim of an invasion? You should not have to be a rocket scientist or a three star general to realize that fall of Ukraine will give China the final bit of confidence to invade Taiwan with Russia’s blessings, and there goes the wheat, oil, and semiconductor prices up the roof…
A state is not a person... Unless it wants to be. For me, not for thee.
To be clear, I'm not siding with Blagojevic, just saying that that's a poor argument.
I was in Court once, waiting to have my matter dealt with, Counsel was appearing in the matter before me, he quoted a Dire Straights song, the Judge took up bridge at the quote, so he backed up the quote with the “classic” phrase and was “charged” with Contempt, tried on the spot and convicted. I then specially went to the Appeal that was filed, when it was heard by the Full Court. The Full Court drop kicked the Conviction out the door, citing that it could NOT be a contempt to quote literature to the Court that made a salient point. The use of the “classic” phrase was so embedded in the social language and in the “rough and tumble” of court, no Court could take offence. The Full Court then characterised the Judge as being uneducated and thin skinned!
I am a great big fan of the constitution and our legal system. That was amazing. It was literary. It was fantastically descriptive of the legal issues, and I think every constitutional law class should be forced to read that opinion, but only after they go through the complaint and try to find the most problems with it. thank you. Thank you, Sam I am.
Was he planning on running to be the mayor of Dolton ?
Dolton...not Dalton
@@davidbryant3532 thank you a little dyslexic moment on my part. Which is nothing because once I got frustrated and couldn't spell upon.
@Lee-yc1if thats not dyslexia...🤣
Dolton is such a mess with that Mayor
actual I have a medical diagnosis from a doctor. Not some school administrator trying to beef up their disabled ranks to add extra funding like they do in California. By saying half the class has A.D.D
To give you an idea of how bad the impeachment was for the governor, there has been a long line of politicians in IL that have done awful things whom the legislature wouldn't consider for a second about impeaching. For example, the electric company with a monopoly in Chicago got fined hundreds of millions of dollars for giving a bribe to an 'unnamed' representative and no recourse was sought regarding the representative who accepted that bribe even though absolutely everyone in the state knows his identity.
Well-read and discussed. Thank you for the hilarity.
Love the honesty and love of Constitution.
Police Academy 's need to teach the Constitution and its bill of rights .
The ATF also
And the rest of the alphabet soup agencies
(edit: misspelling)
Ben surfing the new Blue Cobra, Steve's LHS
So we still need driver's licenses?
@@wmrieker As long as Ben is there, YEP
@@wmriekerDepends on if the traffic cop wants Ben badly enough.
You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here…
SemiSonic...😉
Who on Earth would commute the prison sentence of such a corrupt, vile, unrepentant criminal!!?
Oh. Him.
Obama. That is nothing.. In the first few weeks after taking office in the aftermath of the JFK murder, Johnson either pardoned or commuted sentences of pretty much most, if not all, of the 'organized crime' members then in Federal prison... presumably as payment for assistance in the process by which he rose to the Presidency.
At least it was a commutation and not a pardon. Had he been pardoned, that whole "cannot hold office" thing would no longer apply to him.
@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 wrong.
I’m actually confused with this case. Because Illinois is so rooted in corruption, I’m actually surprised the legislature turned on one of their own dems. The fact they have continued to stay against him is just as confusing. He fits right in with all the state corruption. 😂😂😂
He’s a threat to all their corruption. They want to destroy America to line their pockets in peace. He got too well known, if they don’t do something, people will start to notice.
It was an internal battle within the party. The Speaker of the House (the true King of Illinois for decades) got pushed out too, a few years after.
It was about the back benchers chaffing at being under the thumb of those at the top of the party - that it, wanting to replace them
It wasn't The Untouchables, it was Game of Thrones.
@jeffreyscott4997 Madigan only for forced out a few years ago.
And that's why.... Trump gave him a pardon... ;(
If one listens to what Trump said, he didn't address his guilt, he said that Blagojevich had been overly sentenced.
100% correct
While I applauded Blago's conviction, I also applauded Trump's commutation. I agreed that he had been oversentenced, particularly in light of so many other crooks in Illinois' government. (Look how many governors have gone to prison.)
This is the most FUN legal opinion I have heard in years!!
Thank you for your post and clarification of the legal aspects.
This is a great education on the status of state rights vs federal rights.
When was the last time an Illinois public office was held by someone who wasn't a criminal?
Rod Blagojevich, that is a blast from the past. I grew up in Illinois but live in NH now. I remember when this happens and have kept a cartoon that says: "Illinois where our governor make our license plates" referring to Blagojevich and Ryan.
Don't forget Kerner and Walker (although Walker's conviction for bank fraud resulted from actions after his term as governor ended).
Unless Blagojevic has had his right to vote revoked, how does he not have standing to bring suit as a voter?
It's like you missed the entire video explaining why.
@@aaronself2411 Except that I didn't. I'm making my comment on different grounds. Of course it's a garbage case and ol' Blago should be even more ashamed than he already is. I'm just asking the question, not making the argument.
"how does he not have standing to bring suit as a voter?"
He didn't bring it on his own behalf; he invoked "voters" collectively. I suppose he could have named only his own right to vote; which apparently being a felon, he does not have anyway.
@@sabinrawr Because you can't use OTHER voters as your basis, ESPECIALLY when that individual lacks the right to vote, due to a felony conviction.
@@thomasmaughan4798 At the same time, that's exactly what Class Actions are.
I loved "He Exited Stage Left" @ 2:04 the bonus reference to the Snagglepuss cartoon that started out as a cameo in a Quick Draw McGraw cartoon in 1959. Snagglepuss was always using the phrase "Exit stage left" or "right" and on some occasions up or down. It would have been perfect if they used his other famous line "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" before the Dr Seuss line.
Every time I hear Blagojevich, I hear an echo of Jon Stewart yelling "BLUHGOYAAVITCH" 😂
Bro, go ya b....😂
Blagojevich and NIXON are a good example of don't do business on the phone !
You can add tRump in.
😂❤ the cord from the microphone above the Chrysler turbine looks like the trunks open LOL where is the Tucker Oh my God😮😢
So the criminal president let out the criminal governor
Sort of. He's let out but not pardoned.
People would reelect him if they could. They put Marion Barry back in office.
No! We would not! Speak for yourself, only. Thank you.
Thank you il.its about time these corrupt people gets held accountable,and then this clown wants to run for office again, when is it enuf and just say NO!!!
Ben keeping the Sun off the Cobra.
Didn't know this was still going on
One fish 🐠
Two fish 🐟🐟
Dump the red fish 👎
VOTE BLUE FISH !!!!
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Benny is doing double duty, today he is being a convertible top along with being moola.
My question is, where do we separate the STATE constitutions and the Federal constitution. Not a lawyer here, but these folks seem to invoke one in turn of the other as they desire??? As we have just witnessed, SCOTUS just just sent back a states decision on this basis.
First Taylor Swift, now Dr. Seuss. Steve Lehto in a footnote. Lots of influential people being cited in recent days.
Thank you, Steve, for this!
Any crimes against federal officials should be tried in federal court for the same reasons as interstate trade is tried in federal court.
No.
Not if they committed a state crime.
There is a reason for 2/3rds majorities in both houses. We want impeachment to be available but not for easy and light reasons.
Can’t sell seats in the house or senate 😂
It was an appointment to fill a vacancy.
But they still get bought over and over… hmm how is that? Fake PAC’s, intelligence operatives, lobbyist groups. It’s happening but you’ll not be allowed to know that.
Had this judge been on SCOTUS when Gore v Bush, we'd never have that Dubya Presidency.
After the dust settled in Gore v Bush, a group of Florida newspapers sued, got the Florida ballots that were being disputed, counted them and Bush’s small lead actually increased.
Hope u all and Steve of course have a nice Sunday...😊, the former dancing with the star contestant......
Hi Steve. Sometimes I really enjoy a video you post. This was one of those times! Love your good humor.
Go for president couldn’t be any worse than what we have.
The judges in trumps many cases need to see/hear this….”trump, just GO”
"Oh the places you'll go. Illinois Legislature, Impeachment trials, prison, Federal court, State Court. But now it's time for you to go away."
Ben is on the Cobra