Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys fees.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes her from personal liability for the denial of marriage licenses.
That’s exactly what they are doing. Now they are starting to justify military intervention against cartels in Mexico because they’ve designated them as Terrorists, when there is nothing terroristic about them. They are just Criminal Oligarchs, no different than our president and his friends.
There are several “magic words” that power-mad tyrants love to use to justify every horrible thing they do. “Terrorist.” “Criminal.” “Pedophile.” “Anti-semite” (a relatively new one) and sometimes “rapist.”
We’ve seen them use these buzzwords everywhere over and over, because they work in stoking the fear and disgust and horror in an ill-informed public.
There’s no better feeling for a dictator than having millions of people supporting him as he levels an entire country because he told the citizens that it was a place full of child rapists and nazis. See: every major conflict this century.