Is this like Nancy Pelosi promoting the idea that "We have to pass the bill in order to learn what is in it?
Or like the Cambridge MA City Council. When confronted with notice that they are violating state laws, the response of the City Council is "Will you shut up?"
WEEKLY ROUNDUP: THE POWER LINES
Recap and analysis of the week in state government
By Jim O’Sullivan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, SEPT. 3, 2010
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“We presume that the Legislature acts with full knowledge of existing laws.” – Justice Margot Botsford, writing for the majority in the Supreme Judicial Court ruling, a 4-2 split decision, to approve the permitting process behind Cape Wind. Whoa there, Judge. Her Honor might want to spend a little time in the House Gallery in the closing hours of formal sessions. Not only are lawmakers, most of them, acting without full knowledge of existing laws, they’re not even acting with half knowledge of the nascent laws in front of them. This is what happens when the three discrete branches of government do not sufficiently familiarize themselves with the other.
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