More than six years of legal battles between Lakewood’s Masterpiece Cakeshop and the state will end after baker Jack Phillips agreed to drop his lawsuit alleging the Colorado Civil Rights Commission was harassing him for refusing to make LGBTQ-themed cakes, in exchange for the commission halting its own actions against him.
“After careful consideration of the facts, both sides agreed it was not in anyone’s best interest to move forward with these cases,” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a news release Tuesday announcing the agreement. “The larger constitutional issues might well be decided down the road, but these cases will not be the vehicle for resolving them.”
The fact is that the commission lost the case the first time because they showed a blatant disregard for the religious freedom rights of Jack Phillips. Some legal analysts suggested that they could simply go back through the same motions, make the same decision, without using any language that disparaged religious freedom.
But the bigger problem for the commision is how to make a decision while still respecting Phillip's right under the constitution to refuse to perform certain types of services. The entire logic of their first decision was the thought process that LGBTQ have nearly unlimited rights, while Christians have almost no rights. You cannot come to that same conclusion without using the same mindset.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act suggests that only under circumstances where there are no other options can the Government force someone to take actions that are against any strongly held religious beliefs. This particular case does not meet the criteria of "no other options". This is just a commission deciding that RFFA and 1st Amendment protections of religious freedom are no longer politically necessary to acknowledge if you are a liberal in 2019.
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DNC chickenshit chair tom perez just announced he'll not allow fox news to host a democrat presidential debate.
Rat - you are spoiling my fun!
Have that post scheduled for later in the day!
i'm sorry.
:-(
That's alright. I had this post scheduled for 1:30 and cali posted about it @ 12:00 in the previous thread!
The case against Mr. Nadler’s obstruction theory has been made in these pages by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and appellate lawyer and our contributor David Rivkin. Attorney General William Barr also made the case in his 2018 memo to the Justice Department when he was still in private life.
A President can obstruct justice while in office but only if he is committing a per se illegal offense. That is, if he suborns perjury or destroys evidence, or commits “any act deliberately impairing the integrity or availability of evidence,” as Mr. Barr put it. Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton committed such acts in Mr. Barr’s view, but Mr. Trump has not as far as we can see.
On the other hand, a President cannot obstruct justice when he takes actions that are consistent with his Article II powers under the Constitution. That includes in particular firing inferior executive-branch officers such as Mr. Comey. Such acts may be politically stupid, but they aren’t obstruction.
Mr. Trump’s motive in firing Mr. Comey doesn’t matter. If a President commits a legal act but can be accused of a crime because of his motive, then any presidential action can be called into question based on an accusation of motive. This would open a Pandora’s box that would leave any political officer vulnerable to charges of obstruction. That would include an Attorney General who declined to prosecute someone whom Members of Congress wanted him to indict. Congress could essentially rule the executive branch.
Mr. Trump’s comments to Mr. Comey about Mr. Flynn also aren’t obstruction for similar reasons. The President is the chief law enforcement officer and can advise on cases as he wants. Such meddling is unwise and politically dumb, but it isn’t obstruction.
“On their face, the President’s comments to Comey about Flynn seem unobjectionable,” Mr. Barr wrote in his 2018 memo.
“He made the accurate observation that Flynn’s call with the Russian Ambassador was perfectly proper and made the point that Flynn, who had now suffered public humiliation from losing his job, was a good man. Based on this, he expressed the ‘hope’ that Comey could ‘see his way clear’ to let the matter go. The formulation that Comey ‘see his way clear,’ explicitly leaves the decision to Comey. Most normal subordinates would not have found these comments obstructive.”
In any event, nothing was obstructed. Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate what Mr. Nadler calls “the Russian thing,” and Mr. Flynn was prosecuted. As for Mr. Nadler’s attempt to criminalize Mr. Trump’s charges of a “witch hunt,” try selling that to the public.
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Perhaps Mr. Mueller will report new facts that are damning. But it’s notable that Mr. Nadler and other Democrats are now saying they will expand their probes beyond Mr. Mueller’s ambit. They seem to be expecting a factual and political disappointment.
Democrats seem hell-bent on impeaching Mr. Trump, and most of the media will be cheering them on. We’ll wait to see all of the facts they assemble. But the legal bar should be high, the crimes real, and the Constitution protected if they want to “steal,” er, reverse, an election.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nadlers-obstruction-quest-11551833245
Victory over the Socialists.
Intolerance the cornerstone of Socialism.
"DNC chickenshit chair tom perez just announced he'll not allow fox news to host a democrat presidential debate."
We defeated Socialism in WW2 , we will defeated it again in 2020.
It was a victory for freedom in the face of narrow-minded tyrannical government.
That's alright. I had this post scheduled for 1:30 and cali posted about it @ 12:00 in the previous thread!
Hey, great minds think alike
Ozone Cortez war on US Energy , especially nuclear is an attack upon the US Navy which is highly dependent on Nuclear powered war ships.
11 years 11 months left as life as we know it according to every major Socialist Democrat running for President.
Cohen Offers Documents in Bid to Show Trump Lawyers Helped With False Testimony https://nyti.ms/2TzPy66
WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen on Wednesday provided new documents to the House Intelligence Committee that he said illustrated changes made at the request of President Trump’s lawyers to a knowingly false written statement that he delivered to Congress in 2017, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Cohen, in what was expected to be his last visit to Capitol Hill, brought multiple drafts of his 2017 statement along with emails with Mr. Trump’s lawyers about its drafting, hoping to back up claims that he made last week at an open hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. In that session, Mr. Cohen testified that there were “changes made, additions” to the original written statement, including about the length of negotiations over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign.
It was not immediately clear how many changes were made by Mr. Trump’s lawyers, including Jay Sekulow, or how drastic those changes were. Two of the people familiar with the documents and Mr. Cohen’s testimony, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the closed-door session, said that at least some of the changes appeared to play down the knowledge of the president’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, about the project.
At the least, the exchange between Mr. Cohen and the president’s lawyers suggests that the lawyers had detailed knowledge of what he was going to tell Congress. Mr. Cohen said last week that though Mr. Trump did not explicitly direct him to lie, he “made clear to me” through his actions that “he wanted me to lie.”
Kim Jong Ung has taken his ass. He's building nuclear rocket missiles bases capable of attacking the United States.
John Bolton Shows the Dangers of a Weak President
Jonathan Bernstein: “Just how weak a president has Donald Trump become? For an illustration, see a terrific Washington Post article on the foreign-policy decision-making process since John Bolton became Trump’s national security adviser. Or, rather, the absence of anything resembling a process…
“When a weak president – or, as with Reagan, a president with significant flaws – doesn’t have a James Baker around, the administration can turn into a free-for-all, with White House staffers and executive-branch personnel pursuing their own preferences, protecting their turf, and generally disrupting the policy process. That seems to be what happened to George W. Bush in the run-up to the Iraq War; whatever his own views, he was ill-served by everyone, from Vice President Dick Cheney on down, who failed to present him with honest options and instead used bureaucratic skills to lock in the choices they wanted. Similarly, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both suffered from foreign-policy inexperience, especially early in their presidencies, and made mistakes as a result.
“For Trump, the problem is worse. Even if he wanted to replace Bolton, there’s only a tiny pool of people who are both qualified for the job and willing to work in this White House. Which is yet another consequence of presidential weakness: He can’t persuade many people to work for him. And if Trump is getting rolled in an area where presidents have unusually strong authority – in their capacity as commanders-in-chief – imagine how he’s faring in other policy areas.”
George Bush is all but admitted the fact that he was taken by a Cheney and convinced to invade Iraq on invalid information. Trump has even less foreign policy experience than Bush, Clinton and Obama. He refuses to read the daily intelligence briefings, and instead watches Fox News and tweets about his feelings and in the case of his decision to withdraw from Syria.
He can’t persuade many people to work for him. His lawyer said that he had silencing Daniels at his discretion. Nine checks were posted today.
Our deficit has been increasing. Our esteemed Trumpeter is ignoring his 10,000 lies in just over two years in office.
Holy shit it's getting bigger.
The President's lawyers altered documents.
*President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen gave the House Intelligence Committee documents that reveal alleged editing to the statement he used to lie to Congress in 2017 about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during presidential election.
*Cohen testified last week in public before another House committee that Trump's then-personal lawyer Jay Sekulow in 2017 had edited the statement before he delivered it to the intelligence committees of both the House and the Senate.
*Cohen pleaded guilty last year to lying to Congress in that statement by falsely claiming the Trump Tower effort was dropped months before Trump locked up the presidential nomination in 2016.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/06/michael-cohen-offers-documents-on-trump-tower-testimony-edits.html
Sorry Rog...
Now is "this" finally the bombshell in question?
Better talk to Robert Mueller about this. Oh wait, he already knows about all of this... and I guess he decided to do what exactly about it?
George Bush is all but admitted the fact that he was taken by a Cheney and convinced to invade Iraq
My Dark Lord and Master...
You can’t speak Spanglish
Taken by a Cheney
Roger doesn't even know the difference between editing a document and altering a document.
Dumbass
Roger just doesn't understand.
Cohen caught lying to Congress again. Confirmed by his Lawyer.
Rebecca Ballhaus
Twitter › rebeccaballhaus
NEWS: Michael Cohen *directed* his attorney last spring to inquire with Trump's lawyers about the possibility of a presidential pardon. Cohen told the Oversight Committee last week: “I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from Mr. Trump
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