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The Supreme Court Partially Unblocked Trump's Travel Ban
In an unsigned order issued on the Court’s last day before its summer recess, the justices scheduled oral arguments in the case for when they return in October. They also partially lifted the lower courts’ injunctions against Section 2(c) of President Trump’s executive order, which temporarily suspended visa applications from six Muslim-majority countries, as well as Section 6, which froze the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and halted refugee entry into the United States.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/trump-travel-ban-su...
Supreme Court to take case on baker who refused to sell wedding cake to gay couple
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider next term whether a Denver baker unlawfully discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to sell them a wedding cake.
Lower courts had ruled that Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had violated Colorado’s public accommodations law, which prohibits refusing service to customers based on factors such as race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-to-take...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that taxpayer-funded grants for playgrounds available to nonprofits under a state program could not be denied to a school run by a church.
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/26/534084013/supreme-court-rules-religious-sc...
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: thinthread
let the wailing and teeth
let the wailing and teeth-gnashing begin.
the chair is against the wall
the chair is against the wall
john has a long mustache
john has a long mustache
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Billy Shears
Separation of Church and
Separation of Church and State was the Founder's intent.
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Footnote 3 reads: “This case
I look forward to reading the court transcripts tonight. This decision makes no sense to me and I'm sure there's somethign I'm missing. Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer voted with the majority...
Footnote 3 reads: “This case involves express discrimination based on religious identity with respect to playground resurfacing. We do not address religious uses of funding or other forms of discrimination.”
The strong implication of this footnote is that the justices who joined it aren’t prepared to say that the government can be required to provide direct funding to a church for its worship services or to pay its ministers. Thus, we can intuit that in the minds of the liberals, at least, this decision doesn’t violate a core principle of the establishment clause, namely that the government shouldn’t directly fund religion. In the liberals’ minds, the idea must be that the government is only supporting the nonreligious activity of playground resurfacing.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote separately to say that he couldn’t join Footnote 3 because it’s impossible really to distinguish the actor, a church, from the act -- the nominally secular playground resurfacing. His point was that when churches do things, they do them religiously. Justice Clarence Thomas also wrote separately and refused to join the footnote.
Logically speaking, Gorsuch is mostly right -- which is why the majority opinion is wrong. Money is fungible, and state money that supports playground resurfacing free up funds for paying ministers.
That’s why the distinction between religious and nonreligious functions for churches doesn’t have roots in the history of the establishment clause. And it’s why the framers of the Constitution, especially Madison, who was most committed to religious liberty, would have found the decision incoherent.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-26/supreme-court-weakens...
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The travel makes total sense
The travel decision makes total sense if you actually read the Constitution, and that should be obvious by the fact that it was a unanimous decision. This one was a no brainer all along, once again the 9th Circuit Court upholds its reputation as the most over turned court in the country.
"Money is fungible"
So you're against Planned Parenthood getting federal funds for the same reason, right?
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Planned Parenthood is a
Planned Parenthood is a church? Who knew?
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good thing to cut planned
good thing to cut planned parenthood funding because of the fabulous new health care coming our way by thom's republican colleagues who are looking out for americans........
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Thoms just being
Thom's just being intellectually dishonest.
Again.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
thom, why don't you explain
thom, why don't you explain how cutting health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires will help people?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Briank
It's not about helping people
It's not about helping people, Turts. The "American way" is for people to decide if they want help, and then to piss into the wind hoping it's there.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Thredkilla
Tax cut for the wealthiest
Tax cut for the wealthiest 400 families equals the cost of Medicaid expansion in 4 states. Quote from Joan McCarter, "In fact, the tax cuts that the 400 wealthiest families will get from Trumpcare “roughly equal the federal cost of maintaining the expansion in Nevada, West Virginia, Arkansas, and Alaska combined. That’s literally blood money.”
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/22/1674114/-Trumpcare-tax-cuts-to-...
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Those who own the country
"Those who own the country ought to govern it.”
John Jay
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yeah, "we can't afford it"
yeah, "we can't afford it" here...