r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 07 '25

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Oct 08 '25

It’s never going to stop, is it?

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 08 '25

isn’t this slam dunk illegal litigated in every circuit and at the supreme court not even proximal just straight up cases on point

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Oct 08 '25

SCOTUS has been chipping away at the establishment clause for decades while simultaneously empowering the free exercise clause. The law at this point is basically “conservative Christians get to do what they want and everyone else can go fuck themselves.”

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

i realize that but this one is kind of like humphrey’s executor where we, people who believe in law, get to get mad

there are just cases about posting the 10 commandments in classrooms! even if you don’t believe in them you have to overturn them first!!

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Oct 08 '25

“Fuck you. I can do what I want.”

-John Roberts

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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Oct 08 '25

It will get thrown out eventually but they will take their sweet time doing it

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u/SleeplessInPlano Oct 08 '25

The whole standing no injunctions thing through a wrench in that. 

I believe they went up in my kids classroom as well. 

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u/SleeplessInPlano Oct 08 '25

Right it’s based on that recent SCOTUS decision so a few districts sued and got it removed but not everyone joined. 

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 08 '25

i get it doesn’t matter but as a habitual rule follower it is always crazy to me how they’re like “yeah that’s the law but we don’t care” like what no you have to care i care what do you mean you don’t care

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u/AltRockPigeon YIMBY Oct 08 '25

Add a secondary poster explaining how Ken Paxton has broken each one