posted on July 28, 2007 12:18:46 PM new
We are beginning to see more and more cases from the aclu - who was formed by communists - losing the cases they bring before the courts.
GREAT news, imo.
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5th Circuit ruling affirms Louisiana school district's right to meeting prayer
Ed Thomas
OneNewsNow.com
July 27, 2007
The ACLU has failed to have opening prayer before school board meetings of the Tangipahoa Parish district of Louisiana declared unconstitutional. A ruling this week by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows for the prayer and overturns a two-year-old district court opinion barring it.
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, announced his resignation from the Senate, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Greg Kreller)
(AP) Sen. Larry Craig's foot-tapping and hand movements in an airport bathroom amounted to speech protected by the First Amendment, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in court papers on Monday.
The Idaho senator pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after an undercover officer at the Minneapolis airport alleged that Craig solicited him for sex. Craig has denied that, and his attorneys have asked a judge to let him withdraw the guilty plea.
Craig was accused of moving his foot next to a police officer's foot and tapping it in a way that indicated he wanted sex. He was also accused of sending a signal by swiping his hand under the divider between the stalls, and of peering into the officer's stall before Craig took his own stall.
Even if he did those things, they're not a crime, the ACLU argued. And even if Craig solicited sex, it would only be a crime if police could prove he was seeking illegal bathroom sex and not a legal liaison somewhere else.
The ACLU also argued that the disorderly conduct statute is too vague to be enforceable in Craig's case.
The ACLU asked the judge to accept its arguments as a friend-of-the-court brief in Craig's case.
Chuck Samuelson, the executive director of the ACLU's Minnesota branch, said other police departments have prevented bathroom sex by posting signs and patrolling with uniformed officers.
Samuelson said the airport undercover work "is the kind of sting operation that at the very best borders on entrapment."
A Hennepin County District Court judge is scheduled to hear arguments on Craig's motion to withdraw his guilty plea on Sept. 26.
