Posted on 02/09/2006 3:52:59 PM PST by newzjunkey
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld New York City's policy on school holiday displays, which allows symbols of Jewish and Muslim holidays but prohibits Christian nativity scenes. Santa Claus, reindeer and Christmas trees are permitted.
The 2-1 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court judge, who said allowing secular symbols neither advanced nor inhibited religion.
The appeals court said no objective observer would believe the city wanted to communicate to its million-plus students "any official endorsement of Judaism and Islam or any dismissal of Christianity." Instead, the court said, the purpose was to use holidays to encourage respect for diverse cultural traditions.
Dissenting Judge Chester Straub objected that the policy "utilizes religious symbols of certain religions, but bans the religious symbols of another."
The original case was filed by Andrea Skoros, a Roman Catholic mother of two sons who attended public schools, who said the policy promotes Judaism and Islam while conveying disapproval of Christianity. Her purpose was not to bar Jewish and Muslim symbols but to have schools add Nativity scenes.
Skoros' lawyer plans to ask the full 2nd Circuit to review the case or, if that fails, to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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[The Judges have spoken. Now it's time for the people to totally ignore their ruling, and the Executive branch to refuse to enforce it.]
The President of the United States should not be in the habit of breaking the law.
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What law would the President be breaking?
Hypothetically, if Constitutional law is being violated in an area where the Executive branch has jurisdiction, and the President refuses to enforce the law then that would be illegal.
Having said that, if the law as it's being interpreted, is not what the people want, then there is a legitimate process to rectify that.
Having laws on the books that are routinely ignored for political reasons is never a good thing. U.S. immigration policy is a good illustration of this.
"Plus judge Straub, although beeing Clinton appointee, is on the right side not for the first time."
I thought an interesting take on all this judge stuff was Olympia Snow's (I think!) statement on why she was going to vote to confirm Alito. In part she said (I paraphrase) that experience shows that attempting to devine how any given person might rule in some future case was a completely futile effort, so one had to look to other things in making one's decision.
I had to have some respect for RINO Snow on that count.
Or let's put it this way, thank Goodness Clinton put somebody with a brain on the court!
I understand the rectification process and agree that laws "on the books," by congressional legisilation should be enforced.
But a President refusing to enforce a court decision is not unprecedented as I think you would agree.
[...a President refusing to enforce a court decision is not unprecedented as I think you would agree.]
I agree.
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I agree with Andy Jackson, who said he swore to uphold the Constitution as he understood it, not as someone else interpreted it for him.
(If the people, who are the ultimate source of power in this country, don't like it, they can throw out the justices or throw out the President. But the court cannot throw out a president, nor the president throw out a justice.)
And that song really does encourage me as well.
The decision, albeit without reading it, appears ludicrous on its face from the snippet. LOL.
Somebody needs to sue theses a$$wipes for a violation of US Code Title 18 Section 242...Deprivation of rights under color of law!
Guys - educate yourself about the history of Islam and then ask yourself - Could such a thing come from God?
Have you seen this yet?
FYI.
The judiciary DO NOT MAKE LAWS. It is high time CONgress started doing their job and stop this nonsense.
Ditto that
Nope.
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