Thank you, Bill Barr: Under him, the DOJ took religious freedom seriously Print this article
Attorney General William Barr
will leave the Trump administration on Dec. 23. The president liked him, at least up until the end. Democrats never did.
There are no polls that I could find, but Barr s insistence that houses of worship be treated fairly during the pandemic gives religious people, and anyone else who takes the free exercise clause seriously, a reason to give Barr a thumbs-up. Under Barr, the Department of Justice boosted legal efforts aimed at protecting religion amid coronavirus restrictions, and the Supreme Court has vindicated those efforts in recent weeks.
Thomas More Society Applauds Order Against Governor Murphy’s COVID Prompted Discrimination
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(December 15, 2020 – Washington, DC) Today, the United States Supreme Court handed down what attorneys from the Thomas More Society are calling “a huge victory for religious freedom.” The case, pitting a New Jersey Catholic priest and Orthodox Jewish rabbi against Governor Philip Murphy’s COVID-19-related executive orders restricting houses of worship to 25% of capacity while secular businesses and schools are at 100% capacity.
The high court granted the writ of certiorari before judgment on appeal in the Third Circuit and vacated the original judgment of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denying an injunction against the restrictions to Reverend Kevin Robinson and Rabbi Yisrael Knopfler who preside over small houses of wo
Mon Dec 14, 2020 President Donald Trump’s truly historic accomplishment of getting three Supreme Court justices confirmed so far hasn’t been enough to guarantee his election grievances get the high-profile official judicial airing they so richly deserve. The justices are sworn to be impartial in the execution of their duty, but they are not blind. They got the message when Democrats threatened to pack the Supreme Court FDR-style. They saw the shock troops of the radical Left, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, burn down cities and lash out violently at Trump supporters. The justices are human, after all. “The Left is much better at making your life miserable when you anger them,” Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, told this writer previously.
La. Attorney General pledges support for La. musician Lauren Daigle Lauren Daigle accepts the artist of the year award during the Dove Awards on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) (Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS) By Nicole Mumphrey | December 14, 2020 at 1:51 PM CST - Updated December 14 at 4:52 PM
BATON ROUGE (WVUE) -Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry offered his support for Christian musician Lauren Daigle while voicing concern over recent actions taken by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
In a letter to Daigle, Landry ‘expressed shock and dismay over Mayor Cantrell attempting to have the Louisiana native removed from the lineup of the New Orleans “New Year’s Rockin Eve” Celebration.’
President Donald Trump’s truly historic accomplishment of getting three Supreme Court justices confirmed so far hasn’t been enough to guarantee his election grievances get the high-profile official judicial airing they so richly deserve.
The justices are sworn to be impartial in the execution of their duty, but they are not blind. They got the message when Democrats threatened to pack the Supreme Court FDR-style. They saw the shock troops of the radical Left, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, burn down cities and lash out violently at Trump supporters.
The justices are human, after all.
More than a third of Americans believe the election was stolen from President Trump