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Raffi Melkonian
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Sep 29, 2022
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The Fifth Circuit reverses and grants judgment *for* a judge who does a prayer ceremony in his courtroom before hearing cases.
Judge Jolly dissents in relevant part. His description of what the scene in Court is like is below. 1/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pmSsfAo4bwvIVjNaC3kIzBBqUzGQfl_6/view?usp=sharing
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5:27 PM · Sep 29, 2022
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I wonder if it would have gone differently in that circuit with 3 (or at least 2) different judges.
unweird
(2,535 posts)Words fail me
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)progree
(10,901 posts)dalton99a
(81,455 posts)underpants
(182,776 posts)Would that be okay?
bamagal62
(3,255 posts)Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)That also implies they are not deserving of justice within that court.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)What century?
What constitution?
spanone
(135,827 posts)Grins
(7,214 posts)(Gallop Poll.)
As to the reason why - its shit like this!
And Roberts KNOWS it.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)PuraVidaDreamin
(4,100 posts)Gawd help us!
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)UTUSN
(70,683 posts)HAB911
(8,888 posts)kick
MissMillie
(38,553 posts)or while they're sitting in their cars.
Making a public spectacle of prayer is something the Bible speaks out against.
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Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Pulling out and discarding cornerstones to our national identity and laws is akin to treason. If our judiciary cannot be expected to uphold bedrock concepts in our laws, we're not what we were formed to be.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Any more evidence needed to prove we're now in that proverbial hand- basket?
LiberalFighter
(50,895 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,678 posts)They all have to be put on record trashing the 1st amendment.