[Epoch Times] California officials have agreed to pay $800,000 in prevailing-party attorneys' fees to a popular Christian megachurch in Los Angeles after state and federal courts in California issued permanent injunctions barring government officials there from ever again imposing discriminatory restrictions on houses of worship.
In the United States, unsuccessful litigants only rarely have to pay their opponents' legal fees, even when their cases are weak.
The Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm, represented Grace Community Church (GCC) and Pastor John MacArthur in legal proceedings that began in March 2020 when California and local governments initiated a sweeping response to combat COVID-19. Government officials repeatedly tried to shut down in-person church attendance after the pandemic began.
On Aug. 31, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles voted to approve the settlement with GCC and MacArthur. Under the agreement, the county will pay $400,000, and an additional $400,000 will be paid by the state of California as compensation for the attorneys' fees incurred by GCC and MacArthur.
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Bhut, bhut, muh 'separation of church and state!" Yeah googoo. When we separate the state from the cuhurch of marxism, the church of COVID, the church of trannyism, etc, give me a call.
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Very glad to see this. The first amendment apparently does still mean something after all.
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[Human Events] In a move possibly triggered by news and social media pressures, Chase Bank has walked back its cancelation of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s credit card.
As previously reported by Human Events News, Flynn, former Trump National Security Adviser and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency during the Obama administration, shared to Telegram a letter from Chase Bank notifying him that his credit cards will be cancelled.
"After careful consideration, we decided to close your credit cards on September 18, 2021 because continuing the relationship creates possible reputational risk to our company," the update read.
"Chase Bank has gone full-blown woke!" Flynn posted.
Chase claims the letter was sent by mistake. The account holder was Flynn’s wife, Lori, the Daily Mail reports.
"We’ve contacted our customer to let her know that we made an error," a spokesperson for the bank said. "And we apologized for any inconvenience this caused."
Flynn addressed the situation again on Telegram Monday, per Yahoo News.
"I pray Chase Bank and all their cancel culture partners think twice about what they are doing to destroy the fabric of our constitution," he wrote. "Trust me, the heart and soul of America will NEVER be broken. We the people will prevail."
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Yeah. Just like the "accidental" social media bans and so forth. It's all signaling. Like an attorney withdrawing a question upon sustainment of an objection. The principle is, "you can't un-ring a bell..."
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Hummmm!
Canceling bank business services based on a persons Political beliefs or the businesses. But NOT based on credit worthiness reeks of LAWSUIT.
Could that be the reason Chase, put it in reverse?
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Under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987, territorial sea, land and airspace of New Zealand became nuclear-free zones.
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..how's that working now for Taiwan? It's sort of easy when you hide behind mommy's skirt, but sort of different when it appears that skirt is likely not to be there when you need it.
[KATU] The Portland City Council will consider an emergency resolution next week to consider a ban on goods and services from Texas, amid controversy over abortion rights. In other news, I intend to beat up the meanest linebacker in the NFL if he doesn't start playing better.
They’re giving up gasoline? Toyotas? Texas Instruments calculators? That’ll be interesting.
In a statement released on Friday, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said the council will take up the emergency resolution on September 8 with the intent "to ban the city's future procurement of goods and services from, and city employee business travel to, the state of Texas." If the ban is approved, the mayor said it would remain in effect until the state "withdraws it unconstitutional ban on abortion or until it is overturned in court." One problem I see here, Ted, is that Texas could buy Portland as an impulse item. Texas: "I'll take two beef jerkys, a Snickers Bar, and the City of Portland." Cashier: "Sir, are you sure you want to do that? We've had a lot of complaints."
The controversial Texas law, that is now in effect, bans abortions as early as six weeks. It was signed into law back in May by Gov. Greg Abbott, but has received its fair share of criticism from women's rights advocates, abortion activists and abortion providers. One exemption to the law would be a medical emergency where the woman's life or fetus life is at risk, or the heartbeat is undetected.
"Portland City Council stands with the people who may one day face difficult decisions about pregnancy, and we respect their right to make the best decision for themselves," the council's statement read. One council, one Ranger.
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To the Portland City Council
Welcome to Federal Prison in 2023 after the Election. 18 U.S. Code § 1951 - Interference with commerce by threats or violence
(a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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So Texas is not the first with the heartbeat law. This law is in a number of states. So Portland can ban good from all these states, so what, who care what the welfare city full of Antifa rats own.
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When I was in Portland back in 1990 there was a legal battle between 2 California organic farming invaders and a family of farmers whose forebears went to Oregon in the late 1800's. The invaders were planting "organic" chard and selling the seeds as non-gmo. They planted right next to a field where the old family had planted chard for consumption that was gmo. The invaders claimed that the gmo chard was pollinating their chard thus making it impossible to sell their seeds as non-gma. They sued to have the old family quit planting chard. The court sided with the invaders. That's when I knew Oregon was on the downward slide.
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But it's OK to do business with China.
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^ Makes sense. China is not the Main Enemy.
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Radio host John Fredericks joined Steve Bannon on Friday morning to drop this EXPLOSIVE development in Georgia.
According to John Fredericks state officials now have video of 240 leftist operatives he called "ballot traffickers" dumping tens of thousands of ballots into drop boxes in the middle of the night in locations across Georgia.
The leftist operatives were identified making numerous drops in the middle of the night. They were filmed emptying their backpacks of ballots into the drop boxes in the middle of the night. Ballot harvesting is not legal in Georgia.
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According to John Fredericks state officials now have video of 240 leftist operatives he called "ballot traffickers"
It's a time consuming, arduous process sometimes taking months, even YEARS !
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Even if they accept as proven that those were indeed illegally harvested and handled ballots it changes nothing, because there is no way to prove the votes were not legally cast nor for whom, and I do not know of a mechanism for 'undoing' an election once it has been certified.
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I do not know of a mechanism for 'undoing' At some point an enterprising court could easily come up with an emanation of a penumbra to accomplish this. It would depend on the cast of characters.
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Actually, I do know of a method for 'undoing' that election but stating it would not be permitted...
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...pour encourage les autres.
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The video shows 240 felonies, and certain;y that warrants an investigation and grand jury for each instance? Someone should ask the GBI what they are doing?
Dr. Eric Lander, the White House's top science advisor, said the U.S. is not ready to face another pandemic as he presented a new $65 billion plan to change that
The new American Pandemic Preparedness plan would focus on enhancing vaccine creations and distribution efforts to combat future viruses
It would also create a 'mission control' office to be overseen by Congress
Lander said U.S. was not prepared for COVID-19 as nearly 40 million people were infected and more than 640,000 died
Lander and other experts warned that a new pandemic could hit within the decade or sooner
Viewer Caution: Contains virtue signaling Biden video
[France24] Less than a week after Hurricane Ida ravaged the Gulf Coast, US President Joe Biden was in Louisiana on Friday to get an up-close view of the damage and offer assistance from the federal government.
The devastation was clear as Air Force One approached New Orleans, with uprooted trees and blue tarps covering shredded houses coming into focus ahead of landing. The path to nearby LaPlace, where Biden was to be briefed by local officials, was dotted with wood poles that held power lines jutting from the ground at odd angles.
"I promise we’re going to have your back," Biden said at the outset of the briefing.
Such trips to natural disaster scenes have long been a feature of the U.S. presidency. It’s a moment to demonstrate compassion and show the public that the president is leading during the crisis. It’s also an opportunity to hit pause, however temporarily, from the political sniping that often dominates Washington.
In shirtsleeves and boots, Biden was welcomed at the airport by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat. Several Republicans, including Sen. Bill Cassidy and Rep. Steve Scalise, the House Republican whip, were also on hand.
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...... is scheduled to spend at least part of Labor Day weekend at his home in Delaware despite the ongoing fallout from the chaotic evacuation of Afghanistan that has left dozens of American citizens and thousands of the US military’s Afghan allies in Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... -controlled territory.The White House says Biden will head to Wilmington after a full day of visiting Louisiana communities devastated by Hurricane Ida. Before he departs the executive mansion for New Orleans Friday morning, the president is scheduled to give remarks on the August jobs report.
Biden was supposed to go to Delaware two weekends ago, but his trip was initially pushed back and then scrapped due to the ongoing withdrawal from Afghanistan — which was then in its final phases — as well as the approach of Hurricane Henri toward the northeastern US.
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His leaving D.C. is not an issue, it's his returning that's problematic.
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... admitted Friday that he is "absolutely" considering future political office — which could include running to be New York governor in 2022.
Hizzoner initially sidestepped his ambitions when asked about speculation on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe," saying his focus was on collaborating and working with Gov. Kathy Hochul and "bringing this city back" after the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... and the wrath of Hurricane Ida.
"The politics, that’s next year," de Blasio told guest host Willie Geist.
"But look, I believe in public service. I’ve done it my whole life. I want to keep working on crucial issues and causes," he said of his future once he leaves City Hall.
"So we’ll see what the future brings," he said teasingly.
Geist put him on the spot, asking if it was "fair to say" that the mayor was "at least considering the run" for governor.
"I want to keep serving in one way or another in the future, so I’m going to look at different options. Absolutely," he said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Republicans accuse Biden and Pelosi of an 'abuse of power' for vow to use the federal government and Congress to undermine the Supreme Court's Texas' abortion law decision
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Well, yeah. Failing to make the COVID cult narrative ring true is a crime against the state.
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Left has been spreading fear using cover transmission and not hospitalization and deaths as a metric. If the average person realizes that for most the virus isn't super-duper deadly then the jig is up. Naturally they are pissed at Rogan.
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I've been naturally immune all along. Several docs have told me the vaxx I got might actually knock down my natural immune response. All of them blanched when I said "That's what its's all about, you know."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Epoch Times] California officials have agreed to pay $800,000 in prevailing-party attorneys' fees to a popular Christian megachurch in Los Angeles after state and federal courts in California issued permanent injunctions barring government officials there from ever again imposing discriminatory restrictions on houses of worship.
Listen Milley, yes for the last time, I've your Crawfish Po' Boys and 4 dozen Beignets. Now get your arse down here before POTUS arrives. 
White House spokesperson issues clarification. 
...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry......
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
