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The US supreme court said on Monday it would leave in place a decision that allowed a lawsuit to move forward against a Kentucky clerk who was jailed in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Justice Clarence Thomas, however, wrote for himself and Justice Samuel Alito that while he agreed with the decision not to hear the case, it was a “stark reminder of the consequences“ of the court’s 2015 decision which made same-sex marriage legal.

Because of that decision, he wrote, “those with sincerely held religious beliefs concerning marriage will find it increasingly difficult to participate in society without running afoul” of the case “and its effect on other anti-discrimination laws”.

Thomas and Alito are two of five conservatives on the nine-member court. Following the death in September of the liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Trump administration and Republicans who hold the US Senate are attempting to confirm a sixth conservative, the Indiana appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett, before the presidential election on 3 November.

Chase Strangio, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote on Twitter that Thomas and Alito’s statement was “a reminder that stare decisis – the principle of applying precedent – will not protect even recently decided cases. The brazenness of the rightward direction of the court is a threat to even the most basic expectation of legal protection.”

Nonetheless, the court said it would not take the case involving Kim Davis, the former clerk of Rowan county, and two same-sex couples who sued her.

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The virus appears to be a fountain of youth.

At least 12 people close to Trump have now tested positive, as have several junior staff members. (The White House has not revealed how many staff members have tested positive since Trump's own diagnosis.)

Unfortunately none of us will ever get the quality of medical care the POTUS does.

Damn few of us even get the high quality medical care I get at the VA.

Mozambique: Islamic State establishes new capital, carries out beheadings, takes sex slaves

If this new Islamic State (ISIS) territory gains any significant international notice, expect a new round of articles confidently asserting that ISIS has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with Islam, and beheading and sex slavery are completely un-Islamic. We saw a spate of such articles when ISIS established its now-destroyed caliphate in Iraq and Syria. In reality, both beheading (47:4) and the sexual enslavement of Infidel women (4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30) are founded upon teachings of the Qur’an. But as always, the establishment media will direct its efforts toward denying and obfuscating that readily demonstrable fact.

Unfortunately none of us will ever get the quality of medical care the POTUS does.

Damn few of us even get the high quality medical care I get at the VA.

You don't believe in Covid, right?

Donald Trump was visibly gasping for air as he returned to the White House balcony from Walter Reed today. It also shows him wincing and breathing awkwardly.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=58a1hcd_oyg