Plus, Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'marshall law' text could boost the case to keep her off the ballot
As if the conservatives on the Supreme Court weren't busy enough rolling back abortion rights, scrutinizing century-old gun restrictions and undermining the federal government's power to slow climate change, they may also be gearing up to strike yet another blow at the separation between church and state. This week, the justices heard oral arguments in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a case about a Washington state high school football coach who led post-game prayers at the 50-yard-line, where student-athletes and other coaches would gather to worship with him. School district officials said the prayers amounted to a form of state-sponsored religious expression. They told the coach, Joe Kennedy, he needed to pray on his own and away from the field — and offered to make arrangements for that. Kennedy said the officials were infringing upon his right to practice his faith in what was, fundamentally, a private act for him and whoever decided to join. He held the prayers anyway and sued, with the backing of religious conservative groups. The stakes are big. As HuffPost's Paul Blumenthal explained in his writeup of the case, even a narrow ruling in favor of the coach could significantly shift the rules on school prayer, allowing for more overt and more public displays of faith on school grounds ― and during officially sanctioned activities ― than the Court has allowed previously. — Jonathan Cohn (tips, feedback jonathan.cohn@huffpost.com; Twitter @citizencohn) |
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Parents of trans kids don't know where their children can be safe. This family already fled Texas due to anti-transgender policies. Now their new home of Arizona is enacting them too. |
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Critics hoping to keep Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off the ballot for her role in inciting the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol are asking a judge to consider a newly released text message she wrote about former President Donald Trump declaring "Marshall" law to remain in office. Backed by the group Free Speech for People, four residents of the first-term Republican's district are asking an administrative law judge to rule her ineligible for reelection because the 14th Amendment prohibits insurrectionists from holding office. "In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall [sic] law," Greene wrote in the Jan. 17, 2021, message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, apparently misspelling the term "martial law." |
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Even though a supermajority of Americans say marijuana should be legal for adults and the House has passed a bill to legalize it, major cannabis reform remains unlikely this year. Why? Because Republicans and a few Democratic senators don't want to do it. "Marijuana? I haven't even thought about marijuana. Jesus Christ, you smoking?" Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) asked HuffPost on Tuesday. Earlier this month, the House passed a bill that would legalize weed at the federal level, expunge cannabis-related criminal records and set the stage for a nationwide legal marijuana industry. But that bill is almost certainly dead on arrival in the Senate. |
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