Do they have some special dispensation that allows them to shrug off and ignore unpleasant legal decisions? Well, they think so. Governor Christie of New Jersey is the latest among quite a few.
Christie’s apparent belief that the law only applies to him when he feels like it is shared by many of his fellow conservatives. Indeed, the New Jersey governor is only the latest conservative leader to claim that the courts can be ignored — or even punished — when they hand down decisions that the right doesn’t like.
Think Progress looks at governors in states like Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota and more.
For sheer chutzpah, Newt Gingrich (as usual) walks away with the gold.
Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed punishing the Ninth Circuit court of Appeals for upholding the constitutional separation of church and state by eliminating that court entirely.
