Posted on 07/10/2024 11:33:34 AM PDT by simpson96
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A former Tipton County teacher could go to trial more than 20 times for sex crimes involving children.
On Tuesday, a judge set a trial date for Alissa McCommon, but that could be the first of many.
McCommon is facing 23 charges including rape of a child, five counts of aggravated statutory rape and two counts of statutory rape by an authority figure. The judge on Monday set McCommon's first trial for January 7, but in August that judge will decide if that trial will encompass all of McCommon's charges or if the former teacher will come back to court for each separate allegation against her.
Another question unanswered is who will pay for McCommon's defense. In June, her attorney said that they need state funding to perform a through investigation, but prosecutors argued that McCommon has her retirement money along with other finances and that she does not need state assistance. They said taxpayers shouldn't be responsible for the burden of paying for the defense's expert witnesses.
During her count appearance on July 2, her attorney said that they are still working to get more information from the state retirement system about how much her account is worth.
A decision regarding her finances and whether or not McCommon's charger will be severed is expected by the court during her next court date on August 19.
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Not a violation of the establishment clause.
Thank you. A lot of people don't realize that the courts are lying, and that there did indeed exist official state denominations before and after 1787.
The 14th amendment is how this all got screwed up.
John Schmitz.
Yes, thanks!
List her as another dodge on “Match.Com”....
Scotus’ unconstitutional “incorporation” of the Bill of Rights, to apply to states, is how this all got screwed up.
Yikes
They couldn't have done that if the 14th amendment were not so convoluted in its language.
It's a mess.
Read the authoritative 1977 scholarly work on the 14th by Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary, the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
You only have to read the 14th amendment to see that I am correct.
Yes, I know about the incorporation doctrine. But they wouldn't have been able to put forth that idea without the garbage verbiage contained within the Amendment.
Most amendments are straightforward and clear, but the 14th is like reading a badly written book.
You can "interpret" it in ways to give the federal judiciary the power to do anything they feel like doing.
Can you rephrase that so I can understand it?
Sorry - here’s a try:
I see the wall of separation as to keep the Govt out of the business of a ‘state religion’.
But that wall does not keep ‘church people’ from participating in Govt., even to the extent of quoting God, and promoting Biblical based morality.
Some excerpts from on line searching separation of chruch and state and Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists:
... nowhere in the Constitution do the words separation of church and state appear. The idea of church/state separation came from a letter penned by Thomas Jefferson. Again, contrary to the propaganda from the revisionists, Jefferson’s cause was to protect religious liberties from an intrusive government! In no way did Jefferson or any of the other framers of the U.S. Constitution seek to restrict Americans’ religious activities.
Americans live in a constitutional republic rather than a theocracy—.... State-sanctioned churches have historically become puppets of the government.
Another ... misconception is that men and women of faith have no business being involved in politics. But it is hardly a secret that George Washington was an active member of ... his local Episcopal Church. In the early days of the republic, a church met within the Capitol Building —a church attended, of all people, by Thomas Jefferson....Jefferson began attending church services in the House of Representatives. . . . Throughout his administration Jefferson permitted church services in executive branch buildings. The Gospel was also preached in the Supreme Court chambers”
What is badly written?
No one listens to the children. Liberals, of which 99% of teachers are liberals, are child molesting perverts.
I knew a set of 14 year old twins being sexed by the gym teacher. No one wanted to hear anything about it as many students complained. I believe he was eventually caught a few years later and went to jail.
And then he got a divorce from her.
The 14th amendment. Especially the second part. If you read the commentary of Senator Howard and Senator Trumbull, you would know the first part is also badly written.
It was originally based on the Civil Rights act of 1866, but then they really screwed up the verbiage. The 1866 act made a lot more sense, but Senator Trumbull learned there was this thing called "temporary allegiance", and so they bollixed the existing language in favor of what it says now.
You have to go to the debates on the 14th amendment to understand what *THEY* thought they were doing with creating the amendment.
The courts of course, don't bother to understand original intent. They just twist whatever interpretation they want out the words.
What vebiage did they screw up?
I have given you enough information so that you can find out for yourself if you choose to do the work necessary to do it.
In case I am unclear here, I suggest you look up the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and then compare that verbiage to the 14th amendment.
If you wish to do further research, you can look at the commentary of Senator Trumbull and how they changed the verbiage as a consequence of him learning about "temporary allegiance."
I've done all this research years ago, and I am just not interested in spending a lot more time looking this stuff up again and quoting it so you can learn what I have already learned about it.
“Jefferson’s cause was to protect religious liberties from an intrusive government! “
And to protect government from the intrusive powers of an established religion.
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