Posted on 12/02/2013 10:26:58 AM PST by george76
The Supreme Court has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to respond to the Home School Legal Defense Association’s (HSLDA) petition on behalf of the Romeike family, a German family who sought legal asylum in the United States to escape persecution because homeschooling is largely prohibited in their home country... the order is a hopeful sign that the High Court will hear the case.
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the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had denied asylum to the Romeikes following the Obama administration’s appeal of an earlier decision by a U.S. immigration judge who had granted them political asylum.
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled to the United States in 2008 with their family after being threatened with thousands of dollars in fines and possible jail time in Germany because they choose to homeschool their children.
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The Obama administration’s definition of tolerance is not the same as the founders’ idea of religious liberty,” said Farris. “It’s actually totally opposite.”
“The basic question here,” he added, “is are we going to stand for religious liberty, or not?”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Constitution...who needs a stinkin’ Constitution.....?
Was Roberts out sick for the ruling and unable to support obamma?
The incredible racism and hatred of this "administration" is beyond belief.
5.56mm
Not to worry. We got Obama’s Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Omar instead.
What does the Constitution have to do with this case? The U.S. Constitution does not apply to the laws of Germany. This is purely a question of interpreting the U.S. immigration statutes-- specifically, whether the German government's denial of the right to homeschool constitutes "religious persecution" entitling the parents to political asylum in the U.S.
No mandamus, but the DOJ won't ignore it.
When a party asks the Supreme Court to hear an appeal from a lower court, the other side is not required to respond, and very often doesn't-- the Court grants less than 1% of the requests to hear cases, so many parties save money by just ignoring the petition. But if the responding party doesn't file anything and the Court is thinking of granting the case, the Court will "invite" the responding party to file a late response. There is no requirement to do so [despite what the article says, this isn't technically an "order"], but everyone always does, because if they don't, the Court is likely to grant the petition.
Might as well take advantage of our leverage now.
When the bastard’s judicial appointees get railroaded through the Senate, thanks to the Fuhrer’s new ukase regarding simple majority, he will pack the federal bench with other Marxists.
Be careful what you wish for. If the Government loses this case, then anyone in the world can gain the right to live in the U.S. simply by claiming that their home country denied them the right to homeschool. Prepare for a flood of new immigrants.
Those are probably the kind of immigrants we need. Let’s take a look at this family in five years and see if they are dependent on welfare. My guess is they will not be and will be contributors to society, job creators, and conservative voters. We could use about 20 million more. Efforts to educate the public about conservatism is failing. Short of that, conservatives will completely lose this nation unless we can increase the percentage of conservatives by population growth (having more children than the opposition) or importing them.
I'm not talking about this family. I'm talking about the tens of thousands of people from other countries who will now have a new loophole to jump to the head of the legal immigration line.
Asylum is something we’ve always practiced. I’m not sure how this would set any new precedent. This family did homeschool for a long time before encountering legal problems. Do you think we will have that many people making the same claim that make it here from a country like Germany where homeschooling is being redistricted?
I think the immigration problem is almost entirely due to Mexicans being able to cross the border without any consequence but with lots of incentives to do so.
I’m much more worried about the practice of giving asylum to homosexuals that are fleeing a country where this behavior is not tolerated. As far as homeschoolers go, I think nine times out of ten we would benefit from welcoming them here.
***Let’s take a look at this family in five years and see if they are dependent on welfare.
I’m not talking about this family. I’m talking about the tens of thousands of people from other countries who will now have a new loophole to jump to the head of the legal immigration line. ******
you’re comments are the same worries i think would seem obvious. What about radical Muslims living in Germany that wanted to home school.
There, fixed it.
Don't need to know about the sin that shall not be named.
There's a reason for this: the 'official' conservative
party really isn't conservative… unless you take conservative to mean keeping things the way they are
. So, in effect, many rightly see 'conservative' as hypocritical and/or ineffectual — when was the last time the conservative party
pushed for repealing onerous gun-laws, repealing/reforming taxes*, ensuring governmental accountability**, illegalizing abortion***, and really any other platform-plank.
* The Bush "Tax Cuts" weren't the good reductions they were painted as; they were effectively selective enforcement of tax-law disguised as a 'gift' to taxpayers when what was/is needed is tax reform.
** Fast & Furious, PRISM, IRS targeting, Benghazi, [etc] have had adverse consequences for whom?
*** 2012 offers a good example: the Republican party added a no exceptions
to the abortion-plank, even while endorsing Mr. "of course I support abortions in the cases of rape, incest, or the mother's health****" Romney.
**** The mother's health
is really the code phrase for convenience
; the courts recognize "social health" as a valid reason.
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