Adopt a Judge
I'd like to adopt this judge. Maybe there'd be a place for her on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
In a surprise move, a judge on Friday rejected Madonna's request to adopt a second child from Malawi and said it would set a dangerous precedent to bend rules requiring that prospective parents live here for some period.We now know what to call a judge who follows the law and refuses to bend rules. Besides rare. A Malawi.
The country's child welfare minister had come out Thursday in support of the pop superstar's application to adopt 3-year-old Chifundo "Mercy" James.Shouldn't a filthy rich bit of show-biz slime who is eagerly becoming a single parent be allowed to pluck any child from anywhere in the world and make that child her own?
But in a lengthy ruling Friday, Judge Esme Chombo sided with critics who have said exceptions should not be made for the star who has set up a major development project for this impoverished, AIDS-stricken southern African country.Madonna must be putting her team of high paid Malawi legal experts through some fierce aerobics today. How could this happen? Who didn't get what?
Madonna can appeal Friday's decision to Malawi's Supreme Court. There was no immediate comment from Madonna or her spokeswoman in New York.How could she comment? She's on the phone to the Supreme Court!
Chombo said other foreigners had adopted children from Malawi, but the only case in which residency rules had been waived was to allow Madonna to take David Banda out of the country in 2006 before that adoption was finalized in 2008.By comparison, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is lacking a sense of the law. In a 5-1 ruling, the wizards of court ordered gay marriage rights decided that cops, when approaching a known drug dealer in a high crime area who is engaged in what appears to be a drug deal at 4am, have no right to frisk that dealer to make sure he's not carrying a weapon.
The state's highest court ordered police yesterday to stop pat-frisking suspected drug dealers for weapons unless they have specific information the person is armed or has a history of violence, in a decision that one judge said will put officers at risk.It would stike me that a known drug dealer making a 4am drug deal on the city streets would be pre-qualified to be at high risk of carrying a weapon - if he plans on staying alive.
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said that he wants Boston police officers to protect themselves and that he is prepared to lose some cases if a judge rules drugs were found after an illegal pat frisk.As much as they hate guns, liberals somehow grow tolerance of second amendment rights if you have to walk near a perp's fourth amendment rights to grab them.
"I don't want officers out there risking their lives by not pat frisking defendants in these circumstances." he said. "If we have to lose an occasional case . . . then I guess that's what's going to happen."In Malawi they might agree with the DA. Not in Boston. But then again, a court in Boston would never deny Madonna's right to any black baby she chooses.
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