Posted on 10/03/2016 1:00:24 PM PDT by jazusamo
States that refuse to help resettle Syrian refugees are guilty of illegal discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, delivering a judicial rebuke to GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, who as Indiana’s governor had tried to halt Syrian resettlement.
Judge Richard Posner, writing for the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, said there’s no evidence that Syrians are more dangerous, and he said even if they are, allowing Indiana to refuse to resettle them would only foist the problem onto neighboring states.
“Federal law does not allow a governor to deport to other states immigrants he deems dangerous,” Judge Posner wrote, saying the governor should instead report his fears to federal bureaucrats for redress.
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Yes! Yes! Yes! TRUMP has *try*!
The R candidates have not bothered with America First, since Reagan. They have all flown at 30,000 feet, on the wings of Wall Street donors, and missed the landing every single time.
The good candidates were systematically crushed financially, by the UniParty candidates.
Illegals are now more important than the states and the natives that inhabit them - Americans!
This is an order that should be defied.
“Now let them enforce it.”
Been reading FR for little over a year know and while I didn’t want to join up in a election cycle at first I figured I’d dip my toes into the water.
Hoping I’m formatting this right.
So it was a 3-0 decision and the judges were:
Richard Posner, Judge Frank Easterbrook, both of whom were nominated by Reagan.
And then Diane Sykes, who is on Trump’s short list of potential SCOTUS nominees.
Two of the three are quite conservative as far as I can tell and from everything I’ve seen the left hates Sykes.
So what caused this particular appeals court to drop this bomb on Pence the day before he has a debate?
You can read the 6 page ruling here and they did not hold back.
http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2016/D10-03/C:16-1509:J:Posner:aut:T:fnOp:N:1838881:S:0
Good job handing Kaine ammo for the debate tomorrow.
One state is supposed to allow its citizens to be harmed just so that other states can allow the federal govt to be irresponsible???
No, this decision is utterly asinine, each state should do its best for its citizens, period.
Other states can LEARN from the wise example of states which best protect their own citizens.
after all of this, Iran deal, DOJ corruption, syrian refugees, etc....there are STILL Never Trumpers out there?? Can't be, at this stage of the game a nevertrumper is a Hillary voter, period..
Are there still any real nevertrumpers?
I’ll remember that Congress did nothing to thwart any of this.
My hope is in the Lord, not any politician. This is partly because the politician we get will be one that is elected by the electorate. Have you SEEN the american electorate.
We are in for a world of hurt. And the nation righteously deserves it.
People will find a way to warp and twist around any political formulation that is of man’s will.
People have to look again for what is God’s will in order to get a sane government; and if they do, almost any constitution will do.
I think we would want, given a choice limited to the two, to back the weak with mostly good ideas (GOP) as opposed to the robustly contrary (Dems).
But, with the very point of view that you’ve mentioned, to put the ultimate trust in the Lord. All others are stewards to be exhorted (if there is some hope) or rejected (if they are militant in opposition).
The recognition of Jesus (or at least Jehovah) as Savior needs to sweep the scene of those who are weak. Just because they may have sinned (and all have) doesn’t mean they cannot begin to embark upon an improving walk. This means taking the value of the Cross sacrifice seriously. Jesus didn’t do it to be put on stained glass or in a museum, but that it should be used in living right where we are.
We never needed to “righteously deserve” anything. That was the fallacious thinking that the Serpent sold to mankind in the Garden. We’d own the entire subject matter of good and evil.
That was a ludicrous fail. The human soul was finite and embracing it would be impossible, let alone how wicked it is to try when God never intended that paradigm to reign. Punishments will come raining down upon us as long as we persist in embracing that mindset — that we get only what we can earn. The moment we seek the grace gift giving Savior, the spiritual climate will begin to change.
We never needed to “righteously deserve” anything.
In a democracy you not only get the government you want. You get the government you deserve.
From the religious point of view, yeah, we are pretty much in agreement. One of the silver linings of this election is that it has caused me to put my faith in God, not any candidate. They are far too weak to get us out of this mess.
I agree. I’ll add that the smart Jews in 1930’s Germany were the ones that caught a boat to England while they still could.
In the terms of a sub-philosophy that is how a “democracy” can be seen... but even then it’s going to be a fail. We might get a slow punishment or a quick punishment that way, but a punishment we will get. Until we start looking past it to the Lord.
Some of our modern laments, and our efforts in response to them, may need to be revisited. We lamented that the schools stopped teaching faith. But we might benefit to realize that this meant we were depending on figurative Caesar. Anyone who understands fads among kids would know that if, somehow, kids were hot for the Lord before they ever went to school, figurative crow bars would not suffice to defeat it.
Being in the spiritual/historical position they were in, they weren’t in a place exactly to evangelize. Getting out was the wisest move in the circumstance.
Christians DO have more options, and God in heaven shakes His head looking at how they are so often overlooked.
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