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Supreme Court Rules 9-0 Boston Violated Constitution To Refuse Christian Flag
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that the city of Boston violated the Constitution when it refused to allow a local organization fly a Christian flag in front of city hall.
āWhile the case had religious overtones, the decision was fundamentally about free speech rights. The court said the city created a public forum, open to all comers when it allowed organizations to use a flagpole in front of City Hall for commemorative events. Denying the same treatment for the Christian flag was a violation of free expression, the court said,ā NBC News reported.
āThe ruling was a victory for a group called Camp Constitution, which says part of its mission is āto enhance understanding of the countryās Judeo-Christian heritage.ā The group wanted to raise a flag bearing a Latin cross during a one-hour event that would include speeches about Bostonās history from local clergy,ā the report added.
NEW: Supreme Court unanimously rules that Boston violated the Constitution by refusing to fly a Christian civic group's flag at city hall while raising the banners of other organizations.
ā Greg Stohr (@GregStohr) May 2, 2022
The city of Boston claimed that allowing a Christian flag to fly on a flagpole often used by community groups is a government endorsement of religion.
Lawyers for Harold Shurtleff, whose 2017 request to fly a Christian flag was denied, cited that in the 12 years before his request, not one of the 284 proposed events was denied by the city.
āāThe flagpole that stands prominently at the cityās seat of government is the means by which the city communicates its own messages,ā Bostonās lawyers told the Supreme Court. The city uses it as a bully pulpit and has not turned it over āto private parties as a forum to pronounce their own messages,āā the outlet reported.
Shockingly enough, the American Civil Liberties Union has come out against banning the flag.
āWhen the government opens its public property for private speakers, it has to treat everybody equally,ā said David Cole, ACLU national legal director. āThis case is really about private citizensā access to government property to express themselves. And that access is critical to our ability to speak to each other, to express our views and the like.ā
The Anti-Defamation League, however, sided with the city.
āThe value to such groups of the āphoto opā of a Nazi flag, the Confederate flag, or some other white supremacist banner flying over Boston City Hall should not be underestimated,ā the group said.
Shurtleff made his request as part of Camp Constitution, which he founded and which has as part of its mission āto enhance understanding of the countryās Judeo-Christian heritage.ā
The flag he wants to fly is a cross in a blue square on a white field.
āItās a public access flagpole,ā Shurtleff told ABC.
āItās kind of ludicrous to think flying a flag on a flagpole for maybe an hour or two will somehow get people to think, āOh my goodness, look at the city of Boston now endorsing the Protestant or the Christian faith.ā
āThe city, for its own speech, does not want to get into the issue of religion,ā said attorney Doug Hallward-Driemeier, who is arguing the case for Boston. āItās said that it didnāt want to fly a flag that was offered as āthe Christian flag,ā because that wasnāt the message that the city itself wanted to communicate.ā
āI donāt know of any white nationalists carrying Christian flags. That may have happened, but I donāt know. But this flag certainly represents Christianity and was designed by a couple of Sunday school teachers. Not exactly white supremacists,ā Shurtleff stated.
āWeāre optimistic that they will rule in our favor and that we will be allowed to raise the flag, although I understand the city will most likely cancel its flag-raising events. So weāll see what happens,ā he added.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court announced it will hear the case of a former Seattle-area football coach who was fired from his job because he refused to stop praying on the field.
When the school district learned that Kennedy was praying with the team, they told him that he could pray separately from the students.Kennedydeclined to change his practice, was put on paid leave, and sued.
Lower courts sided with the school district. Now, the case has made its way to the nationās highest court.
https://conservativebrief.com/rules-4-62484/
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>>337096
On it, what about Russian detained in Bangkok?
>>337108
What picture was posted?
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https://www.fara.gov/docs/5926-Short-Form-20170817-348.pdf
https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=09B71870-0B05-4D45-A4B7-1B5AF0618975&filingTypeID=1
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/50428
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>>2633643
Remember, 'conspiracy' friends, LARPS have access to a full stock of 'original' surveillance photos.
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>>2798106
>Did the Washington Post dedicate resources to conduct an actual POLL re: Qanon?
Here's a better question: Does the WaPo skew all polls?
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The Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax exposed!
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Clinton campaign officialsā claims undercut, āprivilegedā info pitched to reporters: Durham
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she takes the stage to speak at a fundraiser at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) FILE more >
By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Special counsel John Durham has revealed that employees of the research firm Fusion GPS sent journalists hundreds of emails with unverified accusations against President Trump to trigger negative news stories.
Mr. Durham was responding to efforts of people with ties to Hillary Clintonās presidential campaign to keep potentially explosive evidence out of his hands during the upcoming trial of a Clinton campaign lawyer accused of lying to the FBI.
In a court motion filed late Monday, Mr. Durham said the slew of emails undercuts the assertion of Clinton campaign officials that Fusion GPSās research for them should be protected under attorney-client privilege.
The Fusion GPS emails peddled to news outlets, as revealed by Mr. Durham, led to stories including:
ā¢ A Wall Street Journal article about a Trump adviser meeting with a former KGB official close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
ā¢ A Washington Post story about a Trump campaign adviser investing in Russia.
ā¢ New York Times and Reuters articles about the FBI investigating a secret communications setup between Mr. Trump and Russiaās Alfa Bank.
Republicans seized on Mr. Durhamās revelations. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said the special counsel is exposing the Clinton campaignās āpolitical dirty tricks.ā
Republicans seized on Mr. Durhamās revelations. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said the special counsel is exposing the Clinton campaignās āpolitical dirty tricks.ā
āWeāve known for quite some time what happened here. And what the Durham indictments are just proving is how not only complicit but the Clinton campaign did this. They literally did this,ā Mr. Johnson told The Washington Times.
āWhat the Clinton campaign did in terms of political dirty tricks, we are still putting up with the repercussions. Would Vladimir Putin have invaded Ukraine if Trump was still in office? Thatās an interesting question,ā he said.
Top Clinton campaign officials John Podesta, Robby Mook and Marc Elias have maintained that Fusion GPS provided legal work that should be rendered off-limits to Mr. Durhamās investigation into the origins of the FBIās Trump-Russia collusion probe.
They argued in affidavits that Fusion GPSās work was intended to provide legal advice to avoid liability for defamation or libel.
None of the three campaign officials who signed affidavits responded to requests for comment from The Washington Times. A spokesperson for Mrs. Clinton did not return a request for comment.
If the material is privileged, Mr. Durham said, then Fusion GPS would have exercised caution before peddling unverified research to reporters.
āIf rendering such advice was truly the intended purpose of Fusion GPSās retention, one would also expect the investigative firm to seek permission and/or guidance from [the Clinton campaign] or its counsel before sharing such derogatory materials with the media or otherwise placing them into the public domain,ā Mr. Durham wrote in court filings.
āIn other words, if the purpose of Fusion GPSās retention was ā as Mr. Elias implies ā to determine the bounds of what could (and could not) be said publicly without committing libel or defamation, then the record would reflect genuine efforts to remain within those bounds. And it would do so confidentially,ā he said.
The dispute over Fusion GPSās activities is whether Mr. Durham can use the information in his case against Michael Sussmann, a Clinton campaign lawyer charged with making false statements to the FBI.
Mr. Sussmann is accused of telling a top FBI lawyer that he was not representing a client when he gave the bureau purported evidence linking Mr. Trump to Alfa Bank in 2016.
The accusations were later proved false, but only after they had been splashed across the front pages of major newspapers citing anonymous sources familiar with the FBI probe.
Mr. Sussmann, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled to go to trial next month in a court battle that could reveal more details about the Clinton campaignās efforts to tie Mr. Trump to Russia.
On Tuesday, tech executive Rodney Joffe asked a federal judge to stop Mr. Durham from using as evidence in Mr. Sussmannās trial four emails he sent to an investigative firm in 2016.
Mr. Joffe said the emails are protected by attorney-client privilege because Mr. Sussmann, his attorney, was copied on them.
Prosecutors have not charged Mr. Joffe with a crime, but Mr. Durham has said he, Mr. Sussmann and the Clinton campaign formed a ājoint ventureā to spread damaging and false information about Mr. Trumpās links to Russia.
Mr. Durham said the emails are evidence āin furtherance of collaborating and promotingā the Russian bank accusations, not facilitating legal advice.
Although the special counsel filed some of Fusion GPSās communications with reporters under seal, he did detail some emails in his filing Monday.
Mr. Durham noted that no lawyers are copied on the emails and no one asked for legal advice. Even if the information were privileged, he said, that protection was waived when Fusion GPS distributed it to the press.
In the emails, Fusion GPS employees amplified the findings of former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled and disseminated an anti-Trump dossier filed with unverified and salacious accusations about Mr. Trumpās links to Russia.
Some reporters responded with skepticism as Fusion GPS peddled the stories.
A July 2016 email from Fusion GPS to a Wall Street Journal reporter touts Mr. Steeleās accusations. āA Trump adviser meeting with a former KGB official close to Putin. ā¦ would be huge news,ā the filing says.
On July 29, 2016, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson emailed a Washington Post reporter claiming that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had investments in Russia.
The reporter wrote back that he checked with Moscow sources who said the stories were ābullāāā and āimpossible.ā Mr. Simpson wrote back, āNo worries, I donāt expect lots of people to believe it. It is, indeed, hard to believe.ā
On Oct. 31, 2016, Mr. Simpson sent emails to The New York Times and Reuters pushing the Alfa Bank accusations and claims that the U.S. government was investigating. The email was sent on the same day that Slate and The Times published articles about the purported link between Mr. Trump and Alfa Bank.
āBig story on the trump Alfa server moving early pm [Off the record] [United States Government] absolutely investigating. Campaign will light up I imagine,ā Mr. Simpson wrote, according to the court filing.
ā¢ Kerry Picket contributed to this report.
ā¢ Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/26/durham-gps-fusion-employees-emailed-reporters-unve/
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>On Tuesday, tech executive Rodney Joffe asked a federal judge to stop Mr. Durham from using as evidence in Mr. Sussmannās trial four emails he sent to an investigative firm in 2016.
You are busted Joffe and we all know you are a vile creature. I want to see you in jail for the term of your natural life, then I want to see your soul wiped from existence.