Kennedy v. Bremerton
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Courts
Maine Religious Schools Would Rather Render It Back To Caesar Than Accept Gay Students
“I say unto ye, the money is cool and all, but if it means teaching those yucky kids I made wrong, just ignore it forreal” - Jesus, apparently -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.23.23
* First they came for “CRT” and no one cared. Next, they came for the scientists. [WRAL]
* Climate laws are benefiting Korean firms. [Bloomberg]
* Who needs climate change laws when you have trees? No seriously, that’s a Senate candidate’s platform. [Wa Po]
* How bad was Trump’s FBI and CIA document pirating anyway? Oh…like 300 documents big? [NYT]
* Surprising no one, Bremerton was just the start. [Baptist News]
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Luxury, Lies, And A $10 Million Embezzlement
In a scandal that rocked the business community, a former high-profile executive was sentenced to prison, plus five years of supervised release and restitution. -
Government
Jesus Might Be Omnipresent, But So Is The IRS
I'm about this close to establishing myself as a church to avoid taxes too. I think I'll call my flock Chris-yans.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.30.22
* Employees fired for not praying at work. Good thing we have the Establishment Clau…nevermind. [Newsweek]
* Given this Court, it may be a bad time to be gay in Texas. [The Hill]
* North Carolina’s vigilantes aren’t getting the go-ahead from their police chief. [Fox]
* Not The Onion: After promising to do everything he could to protect a woman’s right to choose, Biden is nominating an anti-abortion judge for life. [Business Insider]
* Bound 2 litigate: Ye West sued over sampling this banger of a house track. Shouts out to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas! [Reuters]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.29.22
* Texas sheriff decides that Dobbs just didn’t happen. [The Guardian]
* The “deeply rooted” rhetoric from the Dobbs opinion is already getting used to attack trans folks. If only America was deeply rooted in equality. [Axios]
* The SCOTUS Dobbs ruling was so bad — *How bad was it?* — that it tanked American soft power. Please clap. [WaPo]
* Reminder: Respect to Dick’s and all, but planning on corporations to save you generally isn’t good praxis. [Commondreams]
* With Bremerton nixing the Establishment Clause, I wonder how the Court will process religious justifications for abortion? [Miami Herald]
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Courts
So Long, Establishment Clause. What Now?
'My genius lies in my nostrils.' - Nietzsche, Ecce Homo -
Supreme Court
The Spectacle Of Stigma
It has become very interesting to see when kneeling at a football game is acceptable behavior.