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hedda_foil

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2. Apparently he believes he's fighting a religious battle not a legal one.
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 11:21 AM
Sep 2020

Barr appears to see himself locked in a historic struggle against literal evil, and he appears to regard the upcoming election as the climactic battle. A Trump loss, Barr recently told a Chicago Tribune columnist, would mean the United States was “irrevocably committed to the socialist path.” He called the election “a clear fork in the road”.

“The attorney general sees himself clearly as fighting culture wars that are to him moral and religious,” Kinkopf said. “And those are deeper I think commitments for him than the commitment to federalism. And so to the extent that the balance of federal and state power gets in the way of achieving what he wants to achieve in the culture wars, he’s willing to cast that aside
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How many of the right wing Catholic justices (including Amy The Handmaid) will agree?
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