Ongoing discussion of SCOTUS cases (1 Viewer)

[MT15]

With the increased scrutiny due to recent revelations in the press I thought maybe we can use a SCOTUS thread. We can discuss the impending Senate investigation and the legislation proposed today by Murkowski and King in the Senate that will formalize ethical guidelines.

We can also use this thread to highlight cases that possibly don’t deserve their own thread, like the following.

I saw this case today, and I cannot believe the US Government is allowed to do this. Unreasonable search and seizure? The examples he gives in the rest of the thread are just sickening:

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

After ratification of the bill of rights it was routine for the federal government to to fund religious schools, orphanages, and hospitals up to the end of the 19th century. There was a hundred years of federally funded Christian Indian Schools.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” was included in the first amendment to protect the nine states that had official state religions.

Funding religious schools isn’t establishing a religion.

Once again, we are back to the glory days of the 19th century! The time of this nation's genocidal, slave trading and robber baron beginnings!

 

[Optimus Prime]

It's baffling that SCOTUS is even hearing this case. I can't wait until someone wants to open Elijah Muhammad, Nation of Islam Charter School and have the public fund the school.

Something tells me it won’t go the same way

 

[MT15]

After ratification of the bill of rights it was routine for the federal government to to fund religious schools, orphanages, and hospitals up to the end of the 19th century. There was a hundred years of federally funded Christian Indian Schools.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” was included in the first amendment to protect the nine states that had official state religions.

Funding religious schools isn’t establishing a religion.

I don’t think Christian Indian schools are the flex you seem to think they are.

I don’t want my money going to any religious schools. It violates a valuable core practice that has served us well for over a hundred years. Religious orders can fund their own schools. They don’t need my tax dollars.

It’s ridiculous. It forces me to support a religion.