Posted on 02/22/2023 12:44:08 PM PST by Twotone
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a newspaper's challenge on free speech grounds to an Arkansas law requiring state government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, a policy the publication's lawyers called a threat to a constitutionally protected form of collective protest.
The justices turned away an appeal by the Arkansas Times, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, of a lower court's ruling dismissing its lawsuit that claimed that the measure punishes participation in political boycotts based on the viewpoint expressed in violation of the US Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
The Arkansas law, passed in 2017, requires public contracts to include a certification that the contractor is not engaged in a "boycott" of Israel, which includes "actions that are intended to limit commercial relations" with Israel or "Israeli-controlled territories." It applies to contracts worth at least $1,000.
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Good.
Yay.
First off, my local Illuminatti chapter owes me so much of my Jew gold that I’m getting suspicious if we Jews even REALLY have all the gold... But to the point, do my brothers-in-Torah really have so much influence down south? (G-d bless us if we really do have that much power, right!) OR is it perhaps because the Bible says those who bless the Jews shall be blessed (and the opposite) and the good Christians of Arkansas realize that and are fighting against the tide to maintain the G-dly, Civil Society?
The latter, of course.
(and screw you, ACLU)
Good news. I’m just terrified the ACLU would even challenge it.
“OR is it perhaps because the Bible says those who bless the Jews shall be blessed (and the opposite)”
It’s a bit of that, but also, for Christians, Israel existing is kind of a “sign of the times”. We expect some prophecies to be fulfilled and they can’t be fulfilled if that land is filled only with nonbelievers and Mohammedans.
The Arkansas Times is a very elitist, left-leaning free weekly published in the crime-infested schiffhole of Little Rock. Need I say more?
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