👀 The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has just published an article by A3P Sr. Counsel Josh Hammer, Timon Cline, & Yoram Hazony. It calls on SCOTUS to reverse the 1947 Everson case, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to the states & requires a separation of church & state. 1/
Interesting timing...surely a coincidence bsky.app/profile/atru...
Lol! Maybe the sky fairy is real and making sure this abomination can’t connect with his fellow wackos.
So what's the argument against canceling the Ivy League?
just ripping up the Constitution and then pissing all over it!
📌 #EstablishmentClause, #ChurchStateSeparation
We're not the United States if individual states can require adherence to religious orthodoxy, in place of civil and human rights, for those residing or visiting within their territory.
Beyond despicable!!!
How is that original meaning? Do they think free speech isn't protected from state and local government intervention as well? Gun rights??
Religion is mind cancer.
@unroll.skywriter.blue please unroll
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2/ Here’s the link to the article. journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/wp-cont...
3/ As you can see, I’ve been waiting for this article to drop since last year. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
4/ Josh Hammer’s involvement in writing this article strikes me as ominous bc, among other reasons, he’s Senior Counsel at the Article 3 Project which claims to be assisting Trump with judicial nominations. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Mike Davis thirsts for violence and "revenge." www.politico.com/news/magazin... November 6, 2024
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Christian nationalism. Project 2025 style.
6/ 👇 bsky.app/profile/jenn...
7/ More on Josh Hammer. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
8/ NatCon leader Yoram Hazony is one of Hammer’s law review article co-authors. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
9/ Timon Cline also co-authored the article. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
10/ All three of these co-authors—Hammer, Hazony, and Cline—signed NatCon’s Statement of Principles. Please read this excerpt. It’s important. Please also note that Russ Vought, Peter Thiel, and a plethora of Claremont Institute associates signed this Statement. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
How bout "no."
11/ Josh Hammer also happens to be the Senior Editor at Large of Newsweek, which published this article by Russ Vought in 2021. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Ugh!!!!
Wow. How in the world do they justify the current cruelty in the US and Middle East? Mind boggling.
"You must be scared of our imaginary sky fairy or else the world will be destroyed!" So pathetic.
We all knew this is coming. They will gin up a case and get it to the supreme court where it will be reversed. They will be sure to do it during this presidential term.
Theirs is a blatantly unconstitutional argument
My stomach hurts. 😢🤮
These people are unfuckinghinged
Horrible!
This is grotesque. I’ve never felt more humiliated to be a US citizen.
“To the defense of the weak.” The irony is thicker than the earth’s mantle.
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JFC No!
Damn. This is horrid.
😱😱😱mentally challenged
Now the king gets to decide which parts of the Constitution to adhere to.
Hazony is a lousy scholar and one of the many supposed conservative "intellectuals" who is, in reality, a snowflake who can't handle criticism (and, of course, blocked me on twitter).
It’s as though the weird undertow of the US has all surfaced and all the sludge it is bringing with it from the bottom dwellers (megalomaniacs) is floating on the top of the water for the whole world to see. It’s time to clean up this horrific mess that the States now is. They need self reflection
but they are incapable of it. No intervention could possibly help them. It’s time that America’s best and brightest rise above the grotesque sludge and start a major clean up. That would mean mid terms though and the world can’t wait that long.
Separation of church and state is vital. All this is just more control freakism.
This is insane. Secular nationalism needs to be a thing.
79% of American Jews voted for Harris & against Trump -- a historical high. And that number doesn't even include non-religious Jews like me, who don't divulge their ethnicity to anyone in public.
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A shonda
The most important protection is the separation of church & state & if Jews think teaming up w fundie cult Christians is a good idea, they are fools!
whoa
well this a plain error; the New York Supreme Court is a *trial* court, the court of last resort is the Court of Appeal; who's on the staff of this journal?
then on the very page they get it right; what is this, amateur hour?
this paper is such hot garbage, why not include mindless conspiratorialism
US is really going back to dark times. Even darker than experienced before. For obscure reasons. Trump’s storytelling of violence racism and power seduced the fools, was financed by a bunch of billionaires. republicans are willing to accept anything to remain in power. Even the death of democracy.
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If I remember correctly, Thomas has made speechs about how the separation of church and state only applies to the federal government. He believes that states have a right to have a state mandated and supported religion.
I don't believe this is my country anymore.
Das ist ein wichtiger Punkt! Die Trennung von Kirche und Staat ist ein fundamentaler Aspekt der Demokratie. Wie kannst du dich sicherstellen, dass die individuellen Rechte und Freiheiten von Bürgern in den verschiedenen Bundesstaaten geschützt werden?
so if they're out to try to undo incorporation that's potentially vastly bigger than just the Establishment Clause
I consider myself a Christian and this sh*t disgusts me. 🤢
It has nothing to do with the teachings of Christ. They are just appropriating his name for their own purposes, which are pretty much in opposition to his teachings.
EXACTLY!
@jenrubin.bsky.social , @contrariannews.org , @katiephang.bsky.social
This is what happens when you let the one FedSoc editor pick his article of the month. bsky.app/profile/leem...
Have a feeling that Hammer, Cline and Hazony are calling for this case to be overturned so that Christianity can be called America’s “official” religion. Which, in turn, would pave the way for them to declare our country a theocracy. Not happening, dudes.
And exactly why I, as a Jew, can't fathom why rw Jews align with these jackholes. It will not end well for us.
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OMG - this is ominous.
I’ve never seen any historical or present evidence that shows the word is better for religion.
You have to be kidding me? Who are these little Nazi’s??
Jesus
The “ahistorical doctrine of ‘separation of church and state’” they deride:
Sectarian violence will be just down the road. Someone posted a while back about some of these nut jobs wanting to bring back public stoning for adulteresses & punishment for blasphemy. It may have been Ms. Cohn.
A doctor in TN wouldn't treat a pregnant woman because she doesn't have a husband. The VA has been freed to turn away Democrats and unmarried people. It's already here. Weird that three Jews are pushing so hard for a white christofascist country. Short memories, maybe.
Jfc
🤯 This is ominous, and predicated on Dobbs being the precedent. With current SCOTUS, this could prove pivotal.
They absolutely hate Thomas Jefferson's idea.
Taken to its ultimate this effort results in the outlawing of all religion replaced by state sanctioned humanist philosophy. There’ll only be like half a dozen of us left so EZ peasy.
My eyes will cross trying to read that, but wouldn’t the supremacy clause apply? (I fix animals, so forgive any legal ignorance.)
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I don’t care what they try to f’ing jam down my throat, they will never make me believe that the Bible is literal. Ever. I have my own beliefs.
It’s called human autonomy. The religious control freaks and the tech control freaks are out to destroy it. Tell them where they can shove their idiotic ideas!!!
Incredible
Will they publish responses?
Thomas has been making this argument for many years.
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Just going to note that this is how you get Wars of Religion.
Holy shit. You know they're gonna try it.
WTF! The separation of church and state is a cornerstone of our democracy. FFS these people have no shame.
Oh my god
This is legitimately insane stuff.
You do such great work - thank you on behalf of America.
I couldn't read the entire thread bc it was making me a little sick to my stomach. The intimacy between owners and slaves? Women need to be submissive? No f**king way. Thiel & Co want to erase the last few hundred years. We're worried abt facism, their ultimate goal is much worse.
next well be Obergefell, or maybe Brown vs. BoE
The only real problem with Everson was that the majority didn’t go far enough. Black should have lived up to his soaring Establishment Clause rhetoric and ruled against the transportation reimbursement.
I'm going to go scream into the void some more.
Come on Harvard - the last thing we need is for theocratic aholes to be given a respected platform.
Sorry for the tangent Jenny but it seems appropriate here It is my understanding that everything which is law exists because at some point some individual or some society learned a lesson which they felt should be codified From that understanding, these people are trying to undo decades of lessons
Yea they want to bring about the new dark rages where lords rule over fiefdoms in Christian monarchies -at least when we are looking
They basically want to CONTROL people… and like some other countries they are using religion as a vehicle to do just that.
During trump1 he traveled w a Secy of Trade, I think it was, who commented on how well behaved crowds were, may be in Egypt. It was bc of suppression & oppression of all dissent. He ogled it with lust as did trump. Wished we could be like that. Now we are; almost.
Last time around he wanted us to be like the people in North Korea. And idiots actually voted for him again- incredible dipshittery- never seen anything like it
I saw that. He has commented several times on wanting that type of freakish conformity. It’s like something out of a sci fi movie. He’s fricken bizarre!!!
The only conformity he’s getting is people raising their signs about him in the air shouting NO KINGS!!!
Unfortunately he’s in a cocoon of conformity down to lip enhancement & drug abuse.
So creepy. The maralago look. Beyond bizarre. And notice that when he gets into a room with normal men, he is incapable of communicating effectively? His cult ways only go so far in life.
"Mar-A-Lago Face" puts me in the mind of the myth of Procrustes and his iron bed. You will be chopped and stretched to a specific standard before you are allowed to pass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrus...
Sleeping rites with newly Wed woman by the lords,
What’s that song from that Disney movie- Vagina Dentata?
I, uhm, doubt it?
They're being satirical
oN tHe inTeRNeT??!!
I don’t agree with you that your idea applies to everything. However, I do agree with you that it applies to most things, and trashing centuries of work toward a fair and just social contract is utterly bizarre and unforgivable.
Yeah I would 100% agree with your assessment, I kept it short for brevity and keep it to 1 post; my claim was very much "on balance"
Wow...in a month of disturbing news, you've managed to deliver the most disturbing. Court appointees with a theocracy agenda -- that doesn't seem to be on Dems' radar as they treat confirmations like so many more rubber stamps. There needs to be a big stink, a big fight over Trump's appointments.
…what 😳….😵💫
Fuck Harvard.
How does Harvard produce these nut jobs?
I think some of them are groomed before joining/infiltrating the Harvard and other Ivy League schools.
I am reminded of Naomi Klein’s shock doctrine and the “Chicago boys”
The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy is basically the publication of Harvard’s Federalist Society chapter, not to be confused with Harvard Law Review
Thank you for that clarification.
I am a historian, not a lawyer, but why do advocates of broad personal liberties not rely more on the 9th amendment- "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" - to counter this claim:
JFC. could these people just go live their lives and let us live ours?
@unroll.skywriter.blue
Harvard can go fuck itself.
Certainly explains the pseudo-intellectual basis for Mahmoud v Taylor.
Welp. I guess we do expect the Spanish Inquisition
Christo-fascism is alive and well. FUCK THE PATRIARCHY.
Oh, hell no!
Great thread! Truly frightening stuff. American Taliban is real.
Busy busy busy! So much evil fuckery, I was immediately exhausted & struck with an animating rage. This is, of course, the result of decades of strategic planning. More work, more resistance. Also, of course, this is emanating from Harvard!
Yes - how is supposedly liberal Harvard contributing so much to all of this fu*kery?
The journal is apparently run by an independent student group & is tied to the Federalist Society - Harvard is being attacked from within
Wow - unbelievable. These people are down right scary!
Harvard enrolls its students at will and can expel them. If full-throated theocracy isn't a reason to do so then Harvard has chosen.
Harvard isn't solely a liberal bastion. There is a deeply arrogant skein of elitism & a haughty crypto-white supremacist strain in its intellectual substrate.
Apparently so! Just did a quick search of Harvard alumni in or associated with Trump. I'm kind of stunned. Found this in the Crimson itself: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
