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  1. The #Trump admin has directed funds to #Freedom250 that #Congress appropriated to a different group, #American250, a statutorily bipartisan group required to detail its spending for lawmakers. The White House appears to have set up Freedom250 to “sidestep” those requirements.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState #fraud #TaxpayersMoney

  2. The #Trump admin has directed funds to #Freedom250 that #Congress appropriated to a different group, #American250, a statutorily bipartisan group required to detail its spending for lawmakers. The White House appears to have set up Freedom250 to “sidestep” those requirements.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState #fraud #TaxpayersMoney

  3. The #Trump admin has directed funds to #Freedom250 that #Congress appropriated to a different group, #American250, a statutorily bipartisan group required to detail its spending for lawmakers. The White House appears to have set up Freedom250 to “sidestep” those requirements.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState #fraud #TaxpayersMoney

  4. The #Trump admin has directed funds to #Freedom250 that #Congress appropriated to a different group, #American250, a statutorily bipartisan group required to detail its spending for lawmakers. The White House appears to have set up Freedom250 to “sidestep” those requirements.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState #fraud #TaxpayersMoney

  5. The #Trump admin has directed funds to #Freedom250 that #Congress appropriated to a different group, #American250, a statutorily bipartisan group required to detail its spending for lawmakers. The White House appears to have set up Freedom250 to “sidestep” those requirements.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState #fraud #TaxpayersMoney

  6. ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.

    Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.

    Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState

    #GiftArticle
    wapo.st/4tDbKZZ

  7. ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.

    Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.

    Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState

    #GiftArticle
    wapo.st/4tDbKZZ

  8. ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.

    Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.

    Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState

    #GiftArticle
    wapo.st/4tDbKZZ

  9. ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.

    Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.

    Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState

    #GiftArticle
    wapo.st/4tDbKZZ

  10. ICYMI A prayer festival backed by #Trump took place in DC yesterday.

    Speakers including top #government officials framed the #UnitedStates as a nation founded to be explicitly #Christian [nope]. #Trump delivered a video message reading a #Bible passage aloud.

    Until Trump, it was virtually unheard of for #US ofcls to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of #religious beliefs.

    #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState

    #GiftArticle
    wapo.st/4tDbKZZ

  11. #Texas can require the #TenCommandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool #classrooms, a #US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for #conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more #religion into schools.
    It sets up a potential clash at #SCOTUS over the issue in the future.
    The ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals claimed in the decision that the #law did not violate either the #EstablishmentClause or the #FreeExerciseClause of the #FirstAmendment.

    apnews.com/article/texas-ten-c

  12. #Texas can require the #TenCommandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool #classrooms, a #US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for #conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more #religion into schools.
    It sets up a potential clash at #SCOTUS over the issue in the future.
    The ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals claimed in the decision that the #law did not violate either the #EstablishmentClause or the #FreeExerciseClause of the #FirstAmendment.

    apnews.com/article/texas-ten-c

  13. #Texas can require the #TenCommandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool #classrooms, a #US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for #conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more #religion into schools.
    It sets up a potential clash at #SCOTUS over the issue in the future.
    The ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals claimed in the decision that the #law did not violate either the #EstablishmentClause or the #FreeExerciseClause of the #FirstAmendment.

    apnews.com/article/texas-ten-c

  14. #Texas can require the #TenCommandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool #classrooms, a #US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for #conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more #religion into schools.
    It sets up a potential clash at #SCOTUS over the issue in the future.
    The ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals claimed in the decision that the #law did not violate either the #EstablishmentClause or the #FreeExerciseClause of the #FirstAmendment.

    apnews.com/article/texas-ten-c

  15. #Texas can require the #TenCommandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool #classrooms, a #US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for #conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more #religion into schools.
    It sets up a potential clash at #SCOTUS over the issue in the future.
    The ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals claimed in the decision that the #law did not violate either the #EstablishmentClause or the #FreeExerciseClause of the #FirstAmendment.

    apnews.com/article/texas-ten-c

  16. Since the last day of early voting, I cannot help but think about the #Texas GOP's Proposition 10, which prohibits state courts from applying Sharia law. It passed with a 94.81% vote, but I have two gripes. The first is that it is clearly dog whistle politics. The second is that voting *against* it would support something that is patently at odds with the Establishment Clause. It's a good thing I have long stopped watching Fox News.

    #Amerabia #dogwhistle #EstablishmentClause #GOP #Islamophobia

  17. Since the last day of early voting, I cannot help but think about the #Texas GOP's Proposition 10, which prohibits state courts from applying Sharia law. It passed with a 94.81% vote, but I have two gripes. The first is that it is clearly dog whistle politics. The second is that voting *against* it would support something that is patently at odds with the Establishment Clause. It's a good thing I have long stopped watching Fox News.

    #Amerabia #dogwhistle #EstablishmentClause #GOP #Islamophobia

  18. Since the last day of early voting, I cannot help but think about the #Texas GOP's Proposition 10, which prohibits state courts from applying Sharia law. It passed with a 94.81% vote, but I have two gripes. The first is that it is clearly dog whistle politics. The second is that voting *against* it would support something that is patently at odds with the Establishment Clause. It's a good thing I have long stopped watching Fox News.

    #Amerabia #dogwhistle #EstablishmentClause #GOP #Islamophobia

  19. Since the last day of early voting, I cannot help but think about the #Texas GOP's Proposition 10, which prohibits state courts from applying Sharia law. It passed with a 94.81% vote, but I have two gripes. The first is that it is clearly dog whistle politics. The second is that voting *against* it would support something that is patently at odds with the Establishment Clause. It's a good thing I have long stopped watching Fox News.

    #Amerabia #dogwhistle #EstablishmentClause #GOP #Islamophobia

  20. Since the last day of early voting, I cannot help but think about the #Texas GOP's Proposition 10, which prohibits state courts from applying Sharia law. It passed with a 94.81% vote, but I have two gripes. The first is that it is clearly dog whistle politics. The second is that voting *against* it would support something that is patently at odds with the Establishment Clause. It's a good thing I have long stopped watching Fox News.

    #Amerabia #dogwhistle #EstablishmentClause #GOP #Islamophobia

  21. …Casey was the most important case of the 1991-92 term, but there were other impressive Souter successes. He, Kennedy & O'Connor also came together, again joined by Blackmun & Stevens, in a crucial #EstablishmentClause case, Lee v. Weisman, where they struck down the recital of #religious prayers at #PublicSchool graduation ceremonies.

    #DavidSouter #SCOTUS #law #Constitution #judiciary #JudicialIndependence #ethics

  22. #MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

    Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

    In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

    MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

    #constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism

  23. #MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

    Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

    In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

    MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

    #constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism