“a fabulous precedent… and long overdue” Spot On.
And while we are at it, can we please place the “emergency manger” concept in the garbage where it belongs. I don’t care how may partisan judges have ruled in it’s favor, it is an invalid and illegal device for an elected government.
It is like reading the pathetic legal trash from John Yoo telling us that the Executive Branch may act unrestricted without counter balance from the Legislative and Judicial Branches.
It is pure illegality, plain and simple.
While the financial obligations of a government may become insolvent, the elected government may not be abdicated or replaced by any other method than election.
Further a government may not, and can not, decline to perform the duties as chartered in their constitutions.
Once the government exists outside the constitution’s of the states, these crimes naturally come into existence. A government acting outside it’s constitution is by definition illegal, hence the spawning of such subsequent crimes.
Yes…Like knowingly poisoning the progeny of the citizenry.
I don’t remember an election for Flint emergency manager Darnell Earley.
And I surely don’t remember the citizenry voting for lead in their children’s water.
Arrest Gov Snyder, and Mr Earley and Bring Them to Trial.
Let the Jury of their Flint Peers Speak.