A decent person would be ashamed of themselves.
(Hint: he's not)
A decent person would be ashamed of themselves.
(Hint: he's not)
Of course it's a Republican. Really scraping the bottom of the culture war barrel now.
Congress has no oversight of state prosecutors. Jordan is using his position of power and trust to pervert the course of justice. This is blatant obstruction of justice.
“We obviously disagree with the Supreme Court’s ruling. But more importantly, we are deeply disturbed by the chilling impact this decision will have to crush dissent,” said Senate Republican Leader Tim Knopp (R-Bend), another state senator who is ineligible for re-election.
You're still entitled to dissent. You're being fired for missing 40+ days of work.
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Yeah, I'm going to suggest that this oligarch keep his mouth shut, ere the revolution eats him alive.
Hartley was essentially admitting that Satanists (and Muslims and other non-Christian groups) would theoretically have access to the funds. However, if the state had a really good reason not to give it to them, there was a way to restrict the funds from going to those groups. You don’t have to be a lawyer to realize that a group being considered a “fringe” religion would never pass strict scrutiny.
N.B. "Strict scrutiny" is a standard applied by courts, not legislatures, when reviewing a law for infringements of constitutional rights. It's the highest standard of scrutiny, and when applied almost always ends with the law being struck down.
In other words, she's saying that a law that excludes "fringe" religions would almost certainly be struck down.
Which one to shatter my delusions of an alien mental hospital?
The irony is that you're the one failing to bring anything of substance to the discussion. For example, comments consisting solely of insults.
I'll let you get in the last word.
The irony is almost palpable.
It’s amazing that you spent so much energy debating an entirely irrelevant point
Can you believe I even read the lawsuit?! Crazy, I know!
But "charged"? Come on. That's clearly trying to obfuscate that it's a private lawsuit.
Full blown de jure chattel slavery? Yes, I would be surprised.
Slavery didn't end because people realized it was bad. They always knew that. It ended because of the industrial revolution.