Court Opinion

ID: 9413436
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-01 23:06:38.673625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:44:50.524259
License: Public Domain

WIENER, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. In so doing I join the dissent of Chief Judge Politz in the belief that we judge best when we judge least, particularly in controversial matters of high public interest to the several states. If forced to take a position on the merits of this, the second en banc consideration of the case, I would regrettably find it impossible to concur in the reasoning of Judge Higginbotham’s majority opinion or Judge Jones’ concurring opinion. For me those writings simply do not “hang together.” I would therefore reach the same conclusion as does Judge King in her dissent — and for most if not all of the same reasons.