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The times, they are a-changin’!
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US Supreme Court Sides With Convicted Rapist Against a Teen-Aged Girl
A teen-aged cheerleader in Texas refused to cheer for a player who was convicted of raping her. (He had received a light sentence from the court, and was still allowed to play for the school.) The school dismissed her from the cheer leading squad, so she sued. She lost.
The high school has come up with a figure of $45,000 in “damages” that she owes. And now the US Supreme Court has refused to hear the case, giving its stamp of approval to the rapist and the high school that have caused such flagrant harm to this girl.
This story is difficult to believe. Here are the phone numbers and email addresses of the school officials involved, in case you would like to call and ask for clarification on this story:
Richard Bain Jr., Supt., Silsbee School , rbain@silsbeeisd.org, (409) 980-7800
Eldon Franco, Principal, Silsbee High School, efranco@silsbeeisd.org; (409) 980-7800, ext. 6030.
The fax is 409-980-7897.
Mystery Of The 7,500 Surprise Prosser Votes Solved
Oh, so THAT’s where they were! Of course!
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Repuplican County Clerk Discovers 7,500 New Votes for Prosser
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus “corrected” her area’s vote count with 7,500 extra votes for Prosser. Nickolaus is a former Republican staff member in the Assembly Republican Caucus and has been criticized in the past by the Waukesha County Board for how she handled elections. Hmmm.
Get The Latest Numbers On the Prosser/Kloppenburg Election in Wisconsin
It’s the election for Wisconsin Supreme Court. Prosser is the (R) incumbent. Kloppenburg is the (D) challenger.
Reults as of this moment are:
| REPORTING | 69% | ||
| Joanne Kloppenburg | 532,568 | 50% | |
| David Prosser (inc) | 531,963 | 50% |
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And here’s the AP site with live numbers
Constitutional Kooks: Originalism and History
Guest post by Dr. William Turner.
News reports tell us that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia lectured incoming members of Congress on the Constitution at the invitation of House member Michele Bachman.
Memo to the Members: Both Scalia and Bachman are Constitutional Kooks.
Bachman has said she wants her fellow Minnesotans “armed and dangerous” in response to certain pending federal laws. I guess she missed the Supremacy Clause, Article VI, Clause 2, of the U.S. Constitution, which declares that laws enacted pursuant to the Constitution are “the supreme law of the land.”
But Bachman at least has the excuse of being a politician, and one who has to win reelection every two years as a Member of the House of Representatives (unless she plans unilateral rejection of that clause as well).
Scalia, by contrast, as a Supreme Court Justice, has no excuse.
No American Sharia
There’s a wave of legislative attacks on women’s rights happening right now. The current move by a small group of older males to seize control of the lives and sexuality of all women is gathering force, and the intent is as ugly as that of any Bronze Age patriarch.
OHIO: Republicans are launching five separate bills aimed at restricting access to abortions, including a controversial measure banning the procedure as early as six weeks after conception.” One proposed law would outlaw abortions from the moment a fetus’ heartbeat is detected.
SOUTH DAKOTA: Legislation seeks to redefine the definition of “justifiable homicide” to the defense of an “unborn child.” Abortion-rights advocates immediately described the pending statute as “an invitation to murder abortion providers.”
IOWA: A panel of the state House Human Resources Committee approved language that would criminalize doctors who perform abortions.
FLORIDA: An ordained minister, who is also a Republican lawmaker, has introduced the Florida For Life Act, which seeks to outlaw most abortions.
MONTANA, OKLAHOMA, FLORIDA, TEXAS, IOWA, NORTH DAKOTA: New “personhood” bills define “personhood” at a fetus’s earliest moments – even earlier than the current test set forth by the Supreme Court.
NATIONAL: One bill would prevent women from purchasing insurance that includes abortion coverage in the new insurance exchanges even if they’re using their own money. This kind of restriction could lead to insurance companies dropping abortion coverage entirely. The same bill would also levy a special tax on small businesses and individuals who purchase insurance coverage that includes abortion. Another bill would, incredibly, allow hospitals to turn away a woman seeking an abortion, even if she’ll die without it—a major change from current law.
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