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  1. #Louisiana's #TenCommandments Statute: With #Litigation Updates from #Arkansas and #Texas

    University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-40
    8 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2025
    Carl H. Esbeck
    University of Missouri School of Law

    #Legislators in conservative states are drawn to a belief that the #10Commandments [“10/Cs”] underscore #American’s moral, jurisprudential, and historical heritage.

    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

    #separationofchurchandstate #SOCAS

  2. Tibet, not Xizang

    Right now, Free Tibet is working hard on this campaign to determine the best path forward in challenging China’s global influence and informing institutions about the history and importance of Tibet.

    freetibet.org/take-action/join

    #FreedomForTibet #tibet #freetibet.org #journalism #academics #institutions #legislators

  3. The attacks on #legislators - primarily #democratic - a result of #Trump and his #MAGA #THUGS will end when #Republicans are no longer in control of #SCOTUS #Congress and #WhiteHouse! There's only one real fix, #VoteBluein2026!

  4. Wife of #VanceBoelter who killed #MelissaHortman #Democratic #Minnesota state #representative and her husband Mark Hortman - also shot dog, and children were in the house, was wearing a mask and impersonating police officer, early Sat morning - was stopped along with relatives, in #MN with #Gun, #Cash, and #Passports - Assassin still on the run. #Boelter targeted #legislators who are #abortion rights supporters

  5. ending w/him accusing #legislators of seeking to “obtain a most extensive #power over the Minds of the rest of Mankind.” 4yrs later, a #mob angered by unfair taxes…hanged Gov Colden in #effigy, smashed…his coaches, & threw the bits of wood into a huge bonfire….

    Where did these intense feelings about #judicial #independence come from? A few colonists knew the work of the British political #philosopher #JohnLocke or the French essayist #Montesquieu, esp their writings on … #SeparationOfPowers,

  6. #TX Sends Millions to Crisis #Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No 1 Knows if It Works. Yr aft yr while #RoeVWade was law of and, Texas #legislators passed measures limiting access to abortion — who could have one, how and where. And with the same cadence, they added millions of dollars to a program designed to discourage people from #terminating #pregnancies. #WomensHealthcare #legalresearch #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #courts #legislation #pregnancy propublica.org/article/texas-f

  7. #TX Sends Millions to Crisis #Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No 1 Knows if It Works. Yr aft yr while #RoeVWade was law of and, Texas #legislators passed measures limiting access to abortion — who could have one, how and where. And with the same cadence, they added millions of dollars to a program designed to discourage people from #terminating #pregnancies. #WomensHealthcare #legalresearch #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #courts #legislation #pregnancy propublica.org/article/texas-f

  8. #TX Sends Millions to Crisis #Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No 1 Knows if It Works. Yr aft yr while #RoeVWade was law of and, Texas #legislators passed measures limiting access to abortion — who could have one, how and where. And with the same cadence, they added millions of dollars to a program designed to discourage people from #terminating #pregnancies. #WomensHealthcare #legalresearch #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #courts #legislation #pregnancy propublica.org/article/texas-f

  9. #TX Sends Millions to Crisis #Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No 1 Knows if It Works. Yr aft yr while #RoeVWade was law of and, Texas #legislators passed measures limiting access to abortion — who could have one, how and where. And with the same cadence, they added millions of dollars to a program designed to discourage people from #terminating #pregnancies. #WomensHealthcare #legalresearch #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #courts #legislation #pregnancy propublica.org/article/texas-f

  10. @KarunaX
    If #Taiwan 🇳🇫 is a "province of #China 🇨🇳," why can I use #Facebook without a #VPN? Why don't I have #RMB in my pocket? Why do #Taiwanese elect their own #president and #legislators? Why can I post things that are critical of #Chinese #dictator #Xi_Jinping (#習近平) without fear of imprisonment, torture, or death? Is the #US 🇺🇸 "part of the #UK 🇬🇧" because most people "speak the same language"? Useful idiot… 🤦🏽‍♂️
    #獨立台灣
    #有用的白痴

  11. Historically viewed as a fringe belief system, #Christian #nationalism has become a considerable force in American politics, particularly as it relates to the current Republican Party.

    A new survey from Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution revealed
    👉more than 50% of Republicans believe the country should aspire to become a devoutly Christian nation by ascribing to the fundamentals of Christian nationalism, or, at a minimum, identifying with such beliefs.

    Christian nationalism is the assumption the United States is a Christian nation, and that the nation’s laws should be deeply rooted in Christian values.
    Such a mindset has long been prevalent in #white #evangelical spheres, but has rapidly gained considerable traction within the #mainstream #Republican party.

    Committed Christian nationalists represent only 10 percent of the population, according to a 2023 PRRI/Brookings Christian Nationalism Survey.
    Despite such a distinct minority, Christian nationalists have been successful in garnering additional influence by aggressively integrating themselves into a more sizable Christian electorate and declaring themselves as ordinary men and women.

    Not surprisingly, support for Christian nationalism is heavily correlated to political ideology.
    Americans who reside in #culturally #conservative red states are much more likely to espouse Christian nationalist beliefs or be more inclined to harbor Christian nationalistic sympathies.
    🔸More than half of Republicans also hold Christian nationalist beliefs, compared with a 🔸quarter of independents and just 🔸16% of Democrats.

    💥If Christian nationalism were successful in becoming the norm, it would abolish our current Constitution and further fragment our democracy.💥

    Incidentally, it was the thrice-married serial adulterer and wayward (at least by traditional religious standards) former President Donald #Trump who courted right-wing Christians. According to one analysis, Trump’s #judicial #appointees were almost universally Christian, and a majority had some kind of affiliation with a religious group such as a church or other religious foundation.

    Trump also appointed three of the six U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
    Unable to garner the support of the majority of Americans for dictating American culture, 🔹Christian nationalists have mounted a legal-political crusade against all who refuse to embrace their religious worldview.

    🔥The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority has steadily eroded the separation of church and state embedded in the Constitution.🔥

    Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, these theocrats have successfully put their disdain and disregard for the life of the pregnant into law in one right-wing Republican-dominated state after another. But this is just the warm-up act.

    Speaker of the House #Mike #Johnson and his fellow crusaders would like to inject their religious doctrine into the veins of every political aspect of federal law and public policy in an effort to establish religious hegemony.

    Conservative #governors and #legislators have arrogantly, brazenly, and shamelessly invoked God and religion as the legislative purpose behind such draconian measures.

    ♦️If we value the freedom to worship in our own way, such arrogant and disingenuous proselytizing must be combated.♦️

    themoderatevoice.com/the-creep

  12. A recent #Teneo fundraising email laid out how the group can bring its members' influence together in service of a cause.

    To “confront” what he dubbed “woke capitalism,” Jonathan #Bunch, a longtime Leo deputy and now Teneo board member, wrote that the group had brought together a coalition of Teneans “working with (or serving as) state #attorneys #general, state #financial #officers, state #legislators, #journalists, media #executives and best-in-class public affairs #professionals” to launch investigations, hold hearings, pull state investment funds and publish op-eds and news stories in response to so-called environmental, social and governance, or ESG, policies at the corporate level.

    “Our members were in the rooms where it happened,” Bunch wrote.

    Another project underway, #Baehr explained in a 2020 presentation, was a “#surreptitious and #exciting” effort to map key institutions in major cities — private #schools, #countryclubs, #newspapers, #Rotary and so on — and find ways to get Teneo members inside those institutions and help members connect with each other.

    The initiative has begun by mapping Atlanta and several cities in Texas

  13. Bernie Kerik Pitched Mark Meadows on ‘$5 to $8’ Million Plan To Reverse Trump 2020 Loss

    Per an email surfaced in a defamation lawsuit brought against Rudy #Giuliani, #Kerik wrote to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark #Meadows in a Dec. 28, 2020 missive that he would need “between $5 to $8M” to put a plan into action that would #pressure #state #legislators into throwing their electors behind Trump.

    It was one feature of a broader effort to co-opt state legislatures into a scheme that would have seen them try to send slates of #fake #electors to Washington on #January6.

    A “strategic communications plan” attached to Kerik’s email indicated he would need millions of dollars to work alongside Giuliani to “pressure” state lawmakers into cooperating.

    talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrake

  14. “Like most #offenders, the man — not a #dragqueen, a physician providing #GenderAffirming #Healthcare, or a #transgender #teenager — who abused me faced no consequences for his actions. With the inaction of these (#RepublicanParty) #legislators, he is afforded #protection under the law — protection that #survivors deserve, not #abusers.”