{"id":826,"date":"2007-03-15T05:35:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T10:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2007-03-15T05:35:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T10:35:26","slug":"the-supreme-court-had-ruled-but-citoyen-dion-doesnt-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Had Ruled &#8230; (but Citoyen Dion doesn&#039;t care)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the highest court in the land makes a ruling, there isn&#8217;t a whole lot that can be done to change that ruling.  The 9 member panel that is often divided on issues makes decisions regularly without a unanimous consensus.  The whole reason for having an odd number of justices on the highest court of the land is to make sure there is not a tie on decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Although a few weeks late, I came across some video which shows Stephane Dion disrespecting the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on the constitutionality of the anti-terror measures which the Liberals voted against extending. (well, all Liberals present except Tom Wappell.)<\/p>\n<p>Dion claims that the divided court means it is a contentious issue.<\/p>\n<p>No Stephane.  A divided court that has ruled means the decision is made and the majority wins.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Citoyen Dion disrespect the Supreme Court by clicking the play button on the video below once.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"329\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/l47BDssPtxk\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/l47BDssPtxk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"400\" height=\"329\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t see the above video play, please try clicking the link below and don&#8217;t forget to rate the video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l47BDssPtxk\" target=\"_Blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l47BDssPtxk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the highest court in the land makes a ruling, there isn&#8217;t a whole lot that can be done to change that ruling. The 9 member panel that is often divided on issues makes decisions regularly without a unanimous consensus. The whole reason for having an odd number of justices on the highest court of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,30,34,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dion-goofups","category-legal-cowchips","category-moonbattery","category-politics-federal","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}