He's Rick Santorum, Bitch!!
Ever see a Senator shit himself?"You have judicial tyranny here," Santorum told WABC Radio in New York. "Congress passed a law that said that you had to look at this case. He simply thumbed his nose at Congress."
"What the statute that [Whittemore] was dealing with said was that he shall hold a trial de novo," the Pennsylvania Republican explained. " That means he has to hold a new trial. That's what the statute said."
"What he's saying is, 'I don't have to hold a new trial because I've already determined that her rights have been protected,'" Santorum said. "That's nice for him to say that. But that's not what Congress told him to do," he added. "Judges should obey the law. And this judge - in my mind - simply ignored the law."
Put the fuckin' crack pipe down, Rick, long enough to pick up a dictionary!
trial de novo (noun) : a trial in a higher court in which all the issues of fact or law tried in a lower court ... are reconsidered as if no previous trial had taken place.
Then again, maybe that's exactly what Rick and his Christo-fascist Republican comrades did. They looked it up, noticed the "as if no previous trial has taken place" part and said, "Praise Jebus, that's the ticket because we don't like the rulings of the previous trials, anyway! Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! This'll teach them dirty liberal hippies and their activist judges!"
I know it doesn't matter, but the question begs to be asked: which mad dash came first -- the crack pipe or the dictionary?
posted by Sizemore at
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