Posted on 05/25/2020 7:16:13 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
They said it. I didn't.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that Democratic California Gavin Newsom's ban on in-person church services during the coronavirus pandemic can stand.
The lawsuit, filed by South Bay United Pentecostal Church in San Diego, prevents that church from reopening, according to the Los Angeles Times
The "constitutional standards that would normally govern our review of a Free Exercise claim should not be applied," wrote the two judges in the majority opinion.
"We're dealing here with a highly contagious and often fatal disease for which there presently is no known cure. In the words of Justice Robert Jackson, if a '(c)ourt does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact,'" according to the opinion.
The ruling came from Judges Jacqueline Nguyen and Barry Silverman, Nguyen is an Obama appointee and Silverman, a Clinton appointee. The 9th Circuit has a longstanding terrible reputation, but this is a new low.
About the only thing Nguyen and Silverman didn't do is reference crying fire in a theater. Perhaps these two lefty scholars can point us to where the First Amendment states, "except in an emergency".
Are they proposing the suspension of the Bill of Rights until there's a cure. Which may never happen.
Bizarrely, the Democrat judges are quoting a minority dissent arguing that speech could be censored if it was inflammatory. Jackson was arguing that the authorities should have the right to stop Nazi supporters from saying racist things in public because it would lead to disorder and then America would go the way of Nazi Germany. Jackson was a great man, but wrong in this case. That he's being quoted by the majority in this ruling is troubling at best considering the original implications.
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Did the court shut down the Church of Home Depot and the Church of Wal Mart, too?
I didn’t think so.
Do I hear bag pipes playing in the DOJ???
I pray for something much loader than a bagpipe.
“...or the day Biden is elected President”
0.0003%
It will go as far as the people allow.
Not yet, but he is getting very close on the full court, this was a three judge panel.
No. The sad notes of Taps from a distant bugle.
They’re working on it - believe it.
“”We’re dealing here with a highly contagious and often fatal disease for which there presently is no known cure.”
Not a word of which is true.>>> yes it is. it’s called democrat/commie.
Often fatal if you’re in a NY nursing home.
“We’re dealing here with a highly contagious and often fatal disease for which there presently is no known cure.”
Well sure, remember when they made homosexual sex illegal and closed the gay bars because of AIDS, until they found a cure.
Wait a minute…
Absolutely Correct!
Fact also,
Few will
Stand Up for the
Constitution or
Demand their Churches
Be Opened!
.
Rebellion to Tyrants
Is Obedience to God!
.
Benjamin Franklin.
That’s right...the Second Amendment protects the First Amendment.
A bad Hay Fever Season
and That’s the Reasoning
Next Year.
.
Spit
This is definitely going to the Supreme Court, one way or another. There are so many cases all over the country that eventually it will end up there.
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