Reflections From a Murky Pond

On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 the US Supreme Court delivered a well-deserved spanking to Obama’s boy, Eric Holder. In an unanimous decision the SCOTUS informed the worthless and murderously criminal Holder – and his overseer at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. – that, despite the Obama Regime’s best efforts, the Constitution is still the highest law in the land and it includes the right of religious freedom.

In the case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC the SCOTUS Justices rendered a blunt 9-0 ruling that the Obama Regime does not have the right or privilege to tell a religious institution who may or may not be in their clergy nor under what terms they onboard or offboard such ministers and/or priests, overruling and reversing the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals’ early decision.

The interest of society in the enforcement of employment discrimination statutes is undoubtedly important. But so too is the interest of religious groups in choosing who will preach their beliefs, teach their faith, and carry out their mission. When a minister who has been fired sues her church alleging that her termination was discriminatory, the First Amendment has struck the balance for us. The church must be free to choose those who will guide it on its way.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed.

It is so ordered.

– Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
Writing for the Court

So, for now, the shades of the Founding Fathers are smiling. The Supreme Court unanimously slapped down the Obama Regime’s attempt to violate the 1st Amendment and Americans’ freedom of religion.

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South Carolina has problem. Eric Holder’s DoJ, through its Civil Rights division, announced that it would block a new South Carolina law that required voters to show a photo ID when casting a vote.

In a letter to South Carolina’s government, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez called the state law—which would require voters to present one of five forms of photo ID at the polls—a violation of Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Overall, he noted, 8.4% of the state’s registered white voters lack photo ID, compared to 10% of nonwhite voters.

Identifying SC’s problem is quite easy. It’s not the law and it’s not the ID requirements. It’s Obama’s boy, Eric Holder’s racism and the Obama Regime’s desperate attempt to change South Carolina’s active electorate into something they perceive as more favorable to Obama and his Liberals.

South Carolina’s Problem Is Holder

8.4% of SC’s White voters vs. 10% of non-White voters lack any of the forms of ID accepted under the law, one of which is provided free of charge – not exactly a gaping chasm, even by the false standards of disproportional effect. Yet Eric Holder and his cronies think it’s worthy of their attack.

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The Obama Regime is nearing the culmination of its push against numerous Swiss banks that have been used by people attempting to shelter their wealth from confiscation by the US federal government.

They’ve already extorted $780 million and the identities of 4,700 account-holders from UBS in 2009. Now they’re close to coercing “cooperation” and reparations from 11 other foreign banks.

You can be assured that, in any other situation, the POTUS and his henchmen in the DOJ forcibly coercing foreign bodies who were operating within the respective laws of their countries to pay the American government 100′s of millions of dollars – probably billions of dollars by the end of this – and divulge confidential information about their clients in violation of the applicable laws of their nations, would be decried by the Liberals and Progressives as examples of “American Imperialism” and the “American Hegemony.”

No such outrage can be reasonably expected from the Leftists when the POTUS and his cabal are ignoring the laws and sovereignty of foreign nations in order to apply American legal jurisdiction in an attempt to seize the assets of alleged tax evaders.

That’s something to remember about America’s domestic enemies; they only get outraged and cry imperialism and/or hegemony when the supposed victims aren’t wealthy and aren’t presumed to be White. It’s all about class warfare and ethnoguiltism with them.

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