April 4, 2011

What's that supposed to mean?

I sure hope [Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi] gets what she deserves when all this wraps up.
Local conservative blogger pens threatening April Fools post to self

When the standard according to which a temporary restraining order is granted is the likelihood of success on the merits demonstrated by the party requesting the TRO and the party against whom the TRO is requested admits in court they are likely to be unsuccessful on the merits, then a judge is left with little choice than to grant the TRO.

It's not rocket surgery.

The party requesting the TRO didn't even need to show up.

21 comments:

Cindy K. said...

I know! It's the part that says the law is published by the Legislative Reference Bureau and Doug La Follett gets to print a notice.

It's going to take forever, but I bet I get the last laugh.

[Redacted] said...

What else can we expect from Cindy when she's accused Doug La Follette of having a God complex and insisted that he be recalled simply for obeying Judge Sumi's court order? "Fairly" conservative my ass.

illusory tenant said...

"the part that says the law is published by the Legislative Reference Bureau and Doug La Follette gets to print a notice."

That's the exact opposite of what the law says.

gnarlytrombone said...

but I bet I get the last laugh

I'm in!

Cindy K. said...

First, I want to mention you changed your post after my first comment.

Next, when you say I'm wrong, can you show me? It's not at all the way I've read it, and honestly, I'm not inclined to take your word for it.

illusory tenant said...

"[C]an you show me?"

Already did.

illusory tenant said...

Now you can tell us what this means:

"I sure hope she gets what she deserves when all this wraps up."

[Redacted] said...

I'll save you the wait, Tom. She'll say she hopes Judge Sumi gets voted out of office, and obviously did not mean to imply anything more sinister than that with her deliberately ambiguous invocation of the old "get what you deserve" line. Shame on you for imputing such a malicious intent to her.

illusory tenant said...

But wouldn't the Kilkennys of the world's argument generally go something like this: She's a Dane County judge, what do you expect, she'll be reelected with 110% of the vote. Situational logic, or something.

gnarlytrombone said...

Justice Gableman is gonna take 'er out behind the woodshed and teach her a few things about judicial ethics.

illusory tenant said...

Concluding with, "But this rule is merely aspirational."

[Redacted] said...

Justice Gableman is gonna take 'er out behind the woodshed and teach her a few things about judicial ethics.

And then Justice Prosser will call her a b*tch.

Cindy K. said...

Redacted, you're making up words. However, Sumi is running unopposed tomorrow if I remember correctly, so she'll like get the majority of the votes. (Pretty heavy speculation on my part, huh?)

When this all wraps up, I hope she's really unhappy with the final product and that her reputation is quite diminished. Is that more clear for you?

(This is where you start calling names and stuff. I know! You can invoke Hitler! That always works.)

illusory tenant said...

I hope she's really unhappy with the final product ...

If you're referring to a reversal by the Supreme Court, it would depend on the grounds stated for reversal, whether she was "unhappy." However Judge Sumi is a professional and as such understands how to accept and live with adverse judgments.

and that her reputation is quite diminished.

How terribly kind of you. Anyway, reputation among the ill-informed wingnuttery carries a weight whose quantification approaches zero. On the other hand, many of us who have actually read the law and the relevant cases have been watching the hearings and hold Judge Sumi in very high regard indeed.

[Redacted] said...

What words am I making up, Cindy? If that's what you meant to say, then say that. To borrow from Wittgenstein's introduction to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, "[w]hat can be said at all can be said clearly."

I have no idea what you mean by invoking Hitler and calling names, other than my making a humorous reference to Justice Prosser's intemperate language toward the Chief Justice. Perhaps someone else will violate Godwin's Law, but it will not be me.

If you want to live in your imaginary world were those of us on the other side of the issues have nothing other than name-calling and Reductio ad Hitlerum, that is your prerogative. But until such time as you want to engage and not, for example, reflexively cry "Recall!" when the Secretary of State does what a court ordered him to do, I will continue to use humor to mock your unseriousness on this issue and the intrinsic irony of your blog's name.

illusory tenant said...

Oh, and Heinrich Himmler, also.

gnarlytrombone said...

many of us who have actually read the law and the relevant cases have been watching the hearings

Many of us on the lower rungs of the intellectual ladder have also watched. And with a little help from our friends, we've learned that the law is much more interesting than the black-and-white, Manichean melodrama playing out in many *cough* people's heads.

illusory tenant said...

It's a fascinating case and Judge Sumi is handling it as well as anyone could have. And she's been patient, thoughtful, and gracious (even though she hasn't carefully explained everything to Rick Esenberg).

gnarlytrombone said...

she's been patient, thoughtful, and gracious

Amen. If this ill-tempered librul were behind the bench, DAG Steven P. Means would be waxing my car for 18 months.

Cindy K. said...

If I remember correctly, I claimed a laugh or two...

illusory tenant said...

What's funny?