Roy Moore 3rd rail?

Pertinacious Tom

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Amati said:
Uncooperative Tom said:
You might want to change that to Thomas, since Scalia didn't join that part of his opinion in Greece v Galloway

I'm a fan of Thomas' opinions on various subjects but not that one. Mainly because Pennsylvania.

We had state religions in the founding era.
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Nope- here’s Scalia:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1014.ZD.html

read the whole thing-
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Interesting admonition. I've never started to read one without finishing. Though it took quite a while with the Citizens United mess.

Scalia doesn't go as far as Thomas, which is probably why he didn't join the opinion I noted.

Thus, while I have no quarrel with the Court's general proposition that the Establishment Clause "guarantees that government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in religion or its exercise," ante, at 8, I see no warrant for expanding the concept of coercion beyond acts backed by threat of penalty — a brand of coercion that, happily, is readily discernible to those of us who have made a career of reading the disciples of Blackstone rather than of Freud.
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Contrast with the article I linked:

According to Thomas (and this is not new—he’s taken this position before), the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause applies only to the U.S. Congress (“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”)—meaning it applies only to the federal government. Pointing to the fact that some states did have established religions at the time the Constitution was ratified, and that some did not disestablish their religions until decades later (Massachusetts did not disestablish its state religion until 1833), Thomas—with clever wordplay—says the First Amendment is “simply agnostic on the subject of state establishments.” Thomas notes that it’s possible the Establishment Clause took on a different meaning through Reconstruction and the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in the 1860s. But he says the historical evidence for such an argument is “mixed,” and he’s not convinced.
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I'm convinced by the mixed evidence that didn't convince Thomas. So was Scalia, or he would have joined part 1 of Thomas' opinion.

Just saying, if you're going to pick on a Justice over this issue, pick on Thomas. His views are more extreme and he's still alive and on the court.

 
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Uncooperative Tom said:
Interesting admonition. I've never started to read one without finishing. Though it took quite a while with the Citizens United mess.

Scalia doesn't go as far as Thomas, which is probably why he didn't join the opinion I noted.

Contrast with the article I linked:

I'm convinced by the mixed evidence that didn't convince Thomas. So was Scalia, or he would have joined part 1 of Thomas' opinion.

Just saying, if you're going to pick on a Justice over this issue, pick on Thomas. His views are more extreme and he's still alive and on the court.
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For some reason :rolleyes: , Scalia (even dead), not Thomas, gets the Reaganesque worship out here in Northern Idaho land when talk turns to Trump Bolshevism.

Some of the local guys I’ve been ‘exposed to’ would probably suggest you move North to get South and set your pointy intellectual head right, guns or no......

(Sorry about the admonition, just awkward writing on my part - the good stuff was kind of buried towards the end of the opinion....)

 
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Trump Group Sends 12-Year-Old Girl to Interview Roy Moore Ahead of Alabama Election


Source: Newsweek

"A political group backing President Donald Trump has sent a 12-year-old girl to interview embattled Alabama Republican Senate contender Roy Moore. 

The America First Project published a video Sunday that showed Millie March—who rose to fame at the age of 11 during the 2016 election due to her support for Donald Trump—interviewing Moore as part of his campaign for election in Alabama."
 
 http://www.newsweek.com/after-roy-moore-accused-sexual-assault-pro-trump-group-sends-12-year-old-743798
 
No word if cameras caught Roy Moore inviting her to help herself to candy in his bedroom.
 
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