{"id":191107,"date":"2009-09-24T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/24\/massachusetts-senate-update\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:02:00","slug":"massachusetts-senate-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/24\/massachusetts-senate-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Senate Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Republican Party<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/60177-mass-gop-files-injunction-to-stop-appointment\"> just filed for an injunction<\/a> against Paul Kirk&#8217;s appointment to the US Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is that under the state constitution, laws do not take effect for 90 days unless they are declared &#8220;emergency laws,&#8221; as Governor Patrick has.<\/p>\n<p>No clue as to the finer constitutional points here.<\/p>\n<p>[<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">update<\/span>]<br \/>The judge has <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/09\/massachusetts-gop-challenge-to-senate-appointment-to-get-hearing----but-no-ex-parte-restraining-orde.php\">not granted an ex parte restraining order<\/a>, which would immedieatly stay the restraining order, which implies the court expects arguments and motions to be done well before the formal Friday appointment and\/or that the Republicans have little or no case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Republican Party just filed for an injunction against Paul Kirk&#8217;s appointment to the US Senate. The issue is that under the state constitution, laws do not take effect for 90 days unless they are declared &#8220;emergency laws,&#8221; as Governor Patrick has. No clue as to the finer constitutional points here. [update]The judge has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}