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Robert Barnes: "Here is Mayor of my hometown in Chattanooga threatening residents if they attend Easter services inside their own cars. This violates First Amendment rights, which the Mayor, as a lawyer (his granddaddy got power when he represented mobbed-up Teamsters) knows. Time to sue?" (twitter.com)
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– sustainable_saltmine 18 points ago +18 / -0

absolutely time to sue!

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– Please_Clap 4 points ago +4 / -0

Sounds like a slam dunk.

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– Oktheone 0 points ago +1 / -1

The first amendment protects you against the federal government, not state governments.

So you can't use that argument. But you can use the state bill of rights and argue with state courts.

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– Oktheone 0 points ago +1 / -1

Incorporation was never the intent of the 14th amendment, even the drafters if it said that. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are for the federal government.

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– Pres-Trump 0 points ago +2 / -2

Time to not comply I say. We've been too forgiving, time we said a big F U to government telling us not to abide by our constitution.

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