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longship

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4. They cite the Lemon test for first amendment religion violation.

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2017, 11:56 PM

Feb 2017

That the law has to have a secular purpose.

Drumpf's words showed the lie to that when he and other administration folks called it a Muslim ban and indicated that they would be preferential to christians.

In other words, there was no secular purpose to this EO.

R&K

Here:
Lemon Test

Note that this alone would be fatal to the Constitutionality of this EO.

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Here's the Appeals Court ruling (pdf). Amazing and scathing! [View all] uppityperson Feb 2017 OP

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They cite the Lemon test for first amendment religion violation. longship Feb 2017 #4

Bookmarking to read tomorrow NastyRiffraff Feb 2017 #5