Motus Mentis

From an article on today’s ruling by Ingham County Circuit judge Rosemary Aquilina, who has blocked Detroit’s bankruptcy filing:

“It’s cheating, sir, and it’s cheating good people who work,’ the judge told assistant Attorney General Brian Devlin. “It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.’

Aquilina said she would make sure President Obama got a copy of her order.

“I know he’s watching this,’ she said, predicting the president ultimately will have to do something to make sure existing city workers’ pension agreements are honored.

Perhaps there is some valid legal basis for this ruling; I haven’t read the arguments in the case. What leaves me gobsmacked is the suggestion, by a judge in an American courtroom, that “not honoring” Barack Obama — whom the winsome Ms. Aquilina evidently expects to come riding the rescue upon a silver steed, carrying bales of taxpayer dollars with which to insulate Detroit from the consequences of its decades of vile corruption, public-sector extortion, and ruinous folly — is grounds for intrusion by the courts.

To see the august face of Justice, click the link above. Some days I really miss Lawrence Auster.