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Jerry442

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5. Everybody knew that the Hobby Lobby case...

Reply to rug (Original post)

Fri Mar 25, 2016, 08:47 AM

Mar 2016

...would open the gates to a flood of absurd legal claims like this. I'm pretty sure that Kennedy, Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia knew it too. If they were too dense to know it already, Ginsburg told them. They just wanted to toss a goody to their tribe.

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Can Religious Groups Ignore All Laws They Don�t Like? [View all] rug Mar 2016 OP

So, by the lights of the complaintent JackInGreen Mar 2016 #1

Only on Samhain. rug Mar 2016 #2

No Lughnasa feast on trespassers? JackInGreen Mar 2016 #3

For one hour. rug Mar 2016 #4

Everybody knew that the Hobby Lobby case... Jerry442 Mar 2016 #5

It implies a semi-feudal right of ownership of the employee's health muriel_volestrangler Mar 2016 #6

It's more an enshrinement of capitalism than feudalism. rug Mar 2016 #8

No. ..........................nt 2naSalit Mar 2016 #7

they never dare go the full way MisterP Mar 2016 #9

There is a resemblance. rug Mar 2016 #10

Any individual or group may ignore any law they don't like. TygrBright Mar 2016 #11

If I have not said it before, let me now say, I enjoy your adverbs. rug Mar 2016 #12

Thank you kindly! n/t TygrBright Mar 2016 #13