{"id":5750,"date":"2011-12-18T14:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2011-12-18T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:06:49","slug":"president-new-gingrich-would-arrest-pro-church-state-separation-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/president-new-gingrich-would-arrest-pro-church-state-separation-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"President Newt Gingrich Would Arrest Pro Church-State Separation Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I don&#8217;t want to hear you belly-aching about Obama and telling us all about how you can&#8217;t vote for him because he didn&#8217;t do some thing you for some quite possibly invalid reason you thought he would do despite having only two years without a Republican congress and almost no time without a Fillibuster.  <\/p>\n<p>Any single one of these stooges running for the republicans, including and maybe especially, New Gingrich, could be the next president of the United States if a) enough liberal stay home and b) enough liberals and progressives vote for a third party or do some other stupid thing, ensuring that Obama is not re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich has stated that he would use the Federal Marshall Service to arrest judges who make decisions that he does not agree with.  Consider the following interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>SCHIEFFER<\/strong>: One of the things you say is that if you don\u2019t like what a court has done, that Congress should subpoena the judge and bring him before Congress and hold a Congressional hearing\u2026 how would you enforce that? Would you send the Capitol Police down to arrest him?<\/p>\n<p><strong>GINGRICH<\/strong>: Sure. If you had to. Or you\u2019d instruct the Justice Department to send a U.S. Marshal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/12\/18\/391576\/gingrich-marshal-judges\/\">From Think Progress. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, get all passive aggressive at Obama, maybe you get Gingrich.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I don&#8217;t want to hear you belly-aching about Obama and telling us all about how you can&#8217;t vote for him because he didn&#8217;t do some thing you for some quite possibly invalid reason you thought he would do despite having only two years without a Republican congress and almost no time without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/president-new-gingrich-would-arrest-pro-church-state-separation-judges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Newt Gingrich Would Arrest Pro Church-State Separation Judges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[388,280,284,883,438,346,871,893],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1uK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}