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The Supreme Court will be busy this year:
1. Two women, one Jewish and the other atheist, filed a lawsuit claiming that the practice of the Town Board of Greece, N.Y., to start its meetings with a Christian prayer, amounted to government endorsement of a single faith.
The Supreme Court will take up the case of the Town of Greece v. Galloway, concerning use of public prayers before town meetings and whether it violates the Constitution.
"I don't think you should have to endure religious indoctrination in order to participate in your own town government," says Linda Stephens, one of the challengers. [Edit EB: There were two women: one was a jewess and the other an atheist..." Have you ever heard a better opening to a joke?]
But Town Supervisor John Auberger says the practice has long been upheld by the courts. "We have a rich tradition, back to our founding fathers, of opening legislative meetings with a prayer." [Edit EB: Tradition is all important. We do it this way becasue we have always done it this way and if we hadn't done it this way, we would not be here to do it this way. Tradition trumps everything. When are we getting back to slavery? My meat-packing plant is almost running at a loss!]
2. The justices will also hear a challenge to a statewide ban imposed by voters in Michigan on affirmative action in university admissions. In 2006, 58 percent of Michigan voters approved an amendment to the state constitution, specifying that colleges in the state "shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin."[Edit EB: Seriously... I don't like this Michigan fool's Paradise. It gives certain people the idea that they are equal, when we can look around and see that they are lacking in so many areas. Imagine you are head of the NSA - Would you fail to "distinguish" against an Injun half-breed, black, female from North Korea and thus leave America open to instant nuclear attack by Al-Qaida?]
3. The court will plunge this term back into the issue of money in politics. Republicans are challenging the limits on the amount of money any person can contribute, in total, to all federal political candidates or party committees put together.
While individual contributors can give no more than $2,600 to any single candidate in each election, a separate provision of the law sets an individual's limit at $48,600 for total contributions to all federal candidates in a two-year period.
"This is about free speech for every American. We should be able to donate to as many as candidates as we choose," says Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon, whose lawsuit is at the heart of the challenge.[Edit EB: I interviewed Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon in depth. He is a True Chrsitian(tm) He answered everything clearly and without hesitation and correctly. Everyone should listen to Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon, everything he says is right and we are grateful for the huge donation to Landover.]
But defenders of the limits say they help prevent corruption. "If you take away the aggregate limits in this case, you will establish a system of legalized bribery like we used to have before the Watergate scandals," says Fred Wertheimer, a longtime proponent of federal regulation of contributions.[Edit EB: So, it has come to this, has it? The censorship by malcontent Socialist (who sounds Jewish) of an innocent man whose only crime is to provide employment and donate to Landover.]
4. The justices have also agreed to hear their first abortion case in seven years, a challenge to an Oklahoma law that limits the use of drugs prescribed for early-term medical abortions. The state denies that the law -- passed in 2011 but prevented by lower courts from going into effect -- was intended to ban medical abortions. But opponents of the law say that would be its effect.[Edit EB: Oklahoma used to be a great state but you see what happens? They create the most liberal of laws, pandering to fornicators and "opponents" (probably porn-barons) want to kill of every fetus! This is the Domino Effect - give them an inch and they'll take a mile! I say stand fast to the Bible! No abortion unless someone has made your wife pregnant!]
1. Two women, one Jewish and the other atheist, filed a lawsuit claiming that the practice of the Town Board of Greece, N.Y., to start its meetings with a Christian prayer, amounted to government endorsement of a single faith.
The Supreme Court will take up the case of the Town of Greece v. Galloway, concerning use of public prayers before town meetings and whether it violates the Constitution.
"I don't think you should have to endure religious indoctrination in order to participate in your own town government," says Linda Stephens, one of the challengers. [Edit EB: There were two women: one was a jewess and the other an atheist..." Have you ever heard a better opening to a joke?]
But Town Supervisor John Auberger says the practice has long been upheld by the courts. "We have a rich tradition, back to our founding fathers, of opening legislative meetings with a prayer." [Edit EB: Tradition is all important. We do it this way becasue we have always done it this way and if we hadn't done it this way, we would not be here to do it this way. Tradition trumps everything. When are we getting back to slavery? My meat-packing plant is almost running at a loss!]
2. The justices will also hear a challenge to a statewide ban imposed by voters in Michigan on affirmative action in university admissions. In 2006, 58 percent of Michigan voters approved an amendment to the state constitution, specifying that colleges in the state "shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin."[Edit EB: Seriously... I don't like this Michigan fool's Paradise. It gives certain people the idea that they are equal, when we can look around and see that they are lacking in so many areas. Imagine you are head of the NSA - Would you fail to "distinguish" against an Injun half-breed, black, female from North Korea and thus leave America open to instant nuclear attack by Al-Qaida?]
3. The court will plunge this term back into the issue of money in politics. Republicans are challenging the limits on the amount of money any person can contribute, in total, to all federal political candidates or party committees put together.
While individual contributors can give no more than $2,600 to any single candidate in each election, a separate provision of the law sets an individual's limit at $48,600 for total contributions to all federal candidates in a two-year period.
"This is about free speech for every American. We should be able to donate to as many as candidates as we choose," says Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon, whose lawsuit is at the heart of the challenge.[Edit EB: I interviewed Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon in depth. He is a True Chrsitian(tm) He answered everything clearly and without hesitation and correctly. Everyone should listen to Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon, everything he says is right and we are grateful for the huge donation to Landover.]
But defenders of the limits say they help prevent corruption. "If you take away the aggregate limits in this case, you will establish a system of legalized bribery like we used to have before the Watergate scandals," says Fred Wertheimer, a longtime proponent of federal regulation of contributions.[Edit EB: So, it has come to this, has it? The censorship by malcontent Socialist (who sounds Jewish) of an innocent man whose only crime is to provide employment and donate to Landover.]
4. The justices have also agreed to hear their first abortion case in seven years, a challenge to an Oklahoma law that limits the use of drugs prescribed for early-term medical abortions. The state denies that the law -- passed in 2011 but prevented by lower courts from going into effect -- was intended to ban medical abortions. But opponents of the law say that would be its effect.[Edit EB: Oklahoma used to be a great state but you see what happens? They create the most liberal of laws, pandering to fornicators and "opponents" (probably porn-barons) want to kill of every fetus! This is the Domino Effect - give them an inch and they'll take a mile! I say stand fast to the Bible! No abortion unless someone has made your wife pregnant!]
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