Fulton versus city of philadelphia. Ms. Windham. Mr. Chief justice and may it please theourt, the court below made a simple error. They failed to understand where emplment division versus sth controls and where it doesnt. Ith doesnt control when the government uses the system of individualized exemptions. Orem when it makes other exceptions that underminets rules or when it changes the rules to phibit a religious practice. Philadelphia made all threefe those errors here and the city still cant identify a neutral genelly applicable law even ter six attempts and in our knowledge is its decisions are subjective and individualized. The courts belowtill apply to smith and even said smith would be a dea letter if petitioners prevailed a that demonstrates the confusion and instability smith has csed. Respondents rather than defendansmith asked the court for a newly minted nstitutional standard that is even less protective of religious exercise and that approa has no basis in the text, history
Morning and case number 19123, fulton v. The city of philadelphia. Ms. Windham. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court. The courts below made a simple error. They failed to understand where Employment Division versus smith controls and what doesnt. Smith doesnt control when the government uses a system of individualized exemptions or when it makes other exceptions that undermined its rules or when it changes the rules to prohibit a religious practice. Philadelphia made all three of those errors here. The city still cant identify a neutral, generally applicable attempts. Fter six it now acknowledges its decisions are subjective and individualized. Yet the courts below still applied smith. Even set Smith Wouldve be a dead letter if petitioners prevail. That. That demonstrates the confusion and instability smith has caused. Respondents, rather than defend smith, asked the court for new limited constitutional standard thats even less protective of religious exercise. That approach
Democratic party and the state hispanic legislative caucus are hosting a mock caucus today. Its taking place at 5 pm inside the East Las Vegas community center. This is ahead of the states big voting days democrats caucus on saturday. And republicans next tuesday. By the way weve also learned democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will host town halls at the keep memory alive event center. It runs from 6 to 8 pm on thursday. Denise Valdez South Carolina is at the center of campaign 2016 this week as the crucial first inthesouth primary takes place this saturday. paul joncich republican president ial candidates arent wasting a second racking up miles in the palmetto state trying to reach as many undecided voters as possible. And this time around there are a lot of voters in that undecided column. Craig boswell reports from mount pleasant, South Carolina. Trump walking in donald trump was back on the campaign trail after throwing jabs at a number of his gop rivals. donald trump gop
dominque de biasio, hal smith elementary when i came in, i knew we were a high need region. We are the 5th Largest School district in the nation. We have to fill those classrooms. tony smith, 8 news now right now, there are hundreds of thousand of students, but not enough educators in the classrooms. dominque de biasio, hal smith elementary everybody i talk too, i am like, hey you need a job . We have plenty of them. tony smith, 8 news now in 2015, the clark county School District lost about 16 hundred teachers. dominque de biasio, hal smith elementary we really need good teachers. And we need people, who are going to stay. tony smith, 8 news now recently, the Governors Office gave School Districts the ablitity to offer provisional teaching licenses. michael gentry, interim Human Resources chief for ccsd so, we are starting to see the tracking and i think a certain percentage, maybe the bulk of is thanks to the provisional licensing. michael gentry, interim Human Resources chief for cc
cal potter attorney society has said you know were going to hold these Police Officers accountable. Were gonna allow private attorneys to come in and sue for violations of civil rights. Vanessa Murphy they are claiming this is excessive use of force by police. Since there is no audio, its unclear how this started and what was said between police and tuuamalemelo. A metro report describes him as aggressive and refers to his size. He tells us at the time, he was nearly 380 pounds. And hes 61 when he appears to walk away though. We see this action. ian i feel a tug on my shirt. I just remembered, i turned around, right when i turned around, thats when i seen the officer he just had a, just a full swing, just takes one to my face. cal there is no excuse for that. Vanessa Murphy potter says hes concerned about the tactics used for restraint here. potter in a perfect world, the United States Attorneys Office would pick up this case and prosecute it and indict the Vanessa Murphy tuuamalemalo