Hittin' The Fan
The "ruling" by the Nevada Supreme Court nullifying a portion of the state constitution -- an amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of the legislature to raise taxes -- is criminal. It's raw judicial tryanny.
And now the shit is hittin' the fan. (To paraphrase George Carlin, what else would you expect to hit the fan in a state where the big game is craps?)
John Fund reports on the fallout:
The decision was so outrageous that on Monday a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Legislature from passing a proposed $1 billion tax increase until a special panel of federal judges heard arguments in the case yesterday. Moves to recall the state Supreme Court justices involved--modeled after the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis in California--have begun in earnest.
And, according to Fund, the splatter from the fan could reach all the way to Washington: come November 2004, pissed-off Nevada voters may direct some of their anger at Senator Harry Reid.
