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The controversy over a Trump judge’s oddly partisan “religious liberty” opinion, explained
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 14, 2020 08:06am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Ian Millhiser |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 14, 2020 01:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Judge Justin Walker, a very recent 38-year-old Trump appointee to a federal court in Kentucky, begins his opinion in On Fire Christian Center v. Fischer — a case brought by a Christian minister that claims the center was preventing from hosting an Easter service — as if he is the only thing protecting civilization from a cartoonishly evil tyrant.
“On Holy Thursday, an American mayor criminalized the communal celebration of Easter,” Walker begins. adding that “that sentence is one that this Court never expected to see outside the pages of a dystopian novel, or perhaps the pages of The Onion.”
Not long after Walker tossed this grenade into a brewing culture war, serious doubts emerged that the attack on Easter that the judge warned of actually ever existed. At the very least, it is fairly clear that Walker did not take some basic steps to ensure that the facts of this case are what Walker claimed that they are. |
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