Posted on 03/13/2017 12:29:28 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Thomas More Law Center filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Tennessee General Assembly and the State of Tennessee in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on Monday challenging the federal refugee resettlement program for violating the state’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit places Tennessee at the center of the national debate concerning the operation of the federal refugee resettlement program.
President Trump will be holding a rally in Nashville on Wednesday to garner public support for his agenda. His revised Executive Order 13780 temporarily halting the federal refugee resettlement program and temporarily banning travel from six Middle Eastern countries goes into effect on Thursday.
As a national non-profit public interest law firm, the Thomas More Law Center, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan will represent Tennessee without charge.
In April 2016, the Tennessee General Assembly passed SJR 467 by overwhelming majorities authorizing the filing of a lawsuit to address the federal government’s commandeering of state funds to continue the refugee resettlement program in Tennessee. In 2007, the state of Tennessee officially withdrew from the federal program but the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement unilaterally designated Catholic Charities of Tennessee to force continued use of state funds to resettle refugees in the state.
The federal government is prohibited from forcing states to support federal programs with state revenues. This issue of federal funding for the new, soon-to-be created federal program, was addressed by the late Senator Ted Kennedy, the chief sponsor of the Refugee Act of 1980, the enabling legislation, on the Senate floor prior to its passage:
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Sure hope Sessions goes to court on this one, and folds on behalf of the Federal Government.
What aren’t we sending all the Jihadi’s to West Hollywood and San Francisco?? They Want Them Here, so let them have them.
My Aunt moved from Antioch to Hendersonville to get away from the Somalis that have flooded her old neighborhood. She said that they are getting a full welfare ride.
Here is a great way to end to program.
Mandate that they are all going to be dropped in San Francisco and mandate that they can’t be re-located.
I’ve heard about The Thomas More Law Center, but didn’t know much about it. After checking them out. I’m just surprised to find out they are based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“Renowned as a national nonprofit public interest law firm, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The mission of the Thomas More Law Center is to: Preserve America’s Judeo-Christian heritage; Defend the religious freedom of Christians; Restore time-honored moral and family values; Protect the sanctity of human life; Promote a strong national defense and a free and sovereign United States of America. The Law Center accomplishes its mission through litigation, education, and related activities. The Law Center does not charge for its legal services, and relies on tax-deductible donations from concerned patriotic Americans and charitable foundations.”
May YHVH be with Tenn. in this rightful demand!
Seriously? When have the pigs in DC ever cared about a state's Constitutional sovereignty?
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