International Falls man challenges Minnesota Supreme Court incumbent
October 30, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Lorie S. Gildea campaigns on her record of Minnesota chief justice, telling voters she helped get more court funding and that she makes decisions based on the law, not her feelings. Challenger Dan Griffith of International Falls does not criticize Gildea, but blasts how she got into office: by governor appointment instead of a public vote. Continue Reading
A Chief Justice that says wait and I’ll tell you what is going on later has no place on the bench.
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Bob, that is the whole idea of a “fair and impartial” judiciary, which I would assume you would want yourself if you or your family were ever accused of committing a crime or sued civilly. By your comment you are saying that you would want to know how judges personally feel on issues before that judge were to even hear the evidence in a case. That is scary. Dan Griffith would be an awful Supreme Court Justice, which is probably the reason why he is, election after election after election, never voted on, or the reason a selection committee has never picked him.
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Um, an judge should not have preconceived conclusions. Rather, they need to apply the law the the facts in each case before coming to a conclusion. What Bob suggests in frightening.
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D & BT don’t put words I did not print into my writing, I did not bring any other individual into this discussion. I am saying a Judge as which this Gildea is has come out in the last month with two rulings within MN with ZERO reasoning. So just what the lleh is the big secret? One can NOT interpret law with no interpretation.
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Bob said:
” One can NOT interpret law with no interpretation.”
Just because it hasn’t been published/released yet doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
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A comment was removed from this thread because it contained an entire article written by someone else, with no attribution and no link back to the original source.
Please don’t do that, folks.
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I apologize greatly. That was me….I am still learning the gadgetry of this computer thing, and I thought I had “cut” out and pasted part of the article, along with the author and details. My error. But either way, Mr. Griffith campaigned heavily in 2008 on his “relationship with Christ”, which all sounds well, but not when he also continues on to say he will judge each case according to the Bible.
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No worries! Feel free to repost an excerpt with a link.
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I want a judge who is going to judge according to the Bible. Actually, we all will have such a Judge someday, as the Bible says that Jesus Himself will judge the world when He returns (Romans 2:12-16, 2 Timothy 4:1, Acts 10:34-43, 2 Corinthians 5:10, John 5:22-27). When He does “…every knee shall bow…” (Romans 14:11). Jesus will be the one true, perfect, and righteous Judge of all mankind for all of history. As the Bible is God’s written Word for us and is inerrant, this is the highest possible standard one can use and the only one that will ultimately matter for eternity. Much of the world wants to ignore the fact that there will be a judgment some day…but it is true. Our very system of government was founded upon many Biblical principles.
Jesus is also our ultimate defense attorney. If one has repented of sin and placed his or her faith in Jesus as the Bible says, he or she shall be saved (Mark 16:16, Acts 2:21, Acts 2:38, Romans 5:9-10) and know they will be on their way to Heaven. He has already paid the penalty for the believer’s sins. I’m glad I made that choice.
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You make my case for me, jla. Thank you for being such a supreme example of what DOES NOT belong in our impartial judicial system.
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I always see those big yellow Griffith signs in front of all the right wing nut job houses. That’s enough for me to not vote for him.
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The following is from a 2008 article detailing an actual INTERVIEW with Mr. Dan Griffith:
Judicial races: Meet Dan Griffith, stealth religious right candidate for the Minnesota Court of Appeals
By Andy Birkey ( MN News Independent)
Friday, October 17, 2008Quote from article: “Griffith attends Evangelical Covenant Church in International Falls, and his faith is part of his judgment. “I believe in God. I think every judge should,” he says on his campaign Web site. “Then they will not think they have become God once they get into office. I believe that God is real and that ultimately we will be accountable to Him when we die and that should affect how we treat others on earth. That may be why John Jay, our First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court said, ‘We should elect of all people Christians.’”
Griffith also disagreed with court decisions that banned the Ten Commandments from public schools and disagreed with decisions that made oral sex between consenting adults legal in Minnesota. He agrees with court decisions that allow religious landlords to deny housing to unmarried couples and agrees with decisions that outlawed same-sex marriage in Minnesota
Now, notice he has pulled back his religious talk this election period. But the above, is what he truly believes. Actually, as a Christian, that does sound good, I suppose…..but what about if I was NOT a christian? Is this not a religion-free judicial system?
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My apologies for something contained in the previous posting. I had no idea my grandson was reading over my shoulder. I thought he’d walked away after he’d been helping me “cut and paste”. Apparently the teenagers find the Oral Sex statement rather humorous. Apparently you cannot talk during sex? oh, gosh, he’s loathe to explain, and rather red in the face. oh, well.
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Katherine said:
“disagreed with decisions that made oral sex between consenting adults legal in Minnesota.”
LMAO….well that should definitely lose him the male vote but, it might bring a few women to his side.
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