(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would create a White House faith office and direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead a task force on eradicating what he called anti-Christian bias within the federal government. Trump delivered remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol and used his speech to call for "unity", telling lawmakers his relationship with religion has "changed" after a pair of failed assassination attempts last year. At a second prayer breakfast in Washington, Trump struck a more partisan tone, took a victory lap for getting "rid of woke over the last two weeks" and announced steps to protect Christians from what he said was religious discrimination.
So, this is blatantly and egregiously unconstitutional, right?
It is, but the constitution is just a piece of paper that the Republicans hate with unrivaled passion.
A 6-3 Supreme Court majority says it isn’t.
I mean, they haven’t said that yet. While the current supreme court have made some genuinely insane rulings, they’ve generally at least made the pretence of trying to square everything they’re doing with the constitution, albeit often in very strained or roundabout ways. I’m not sure if they’ll be able to find a way to justify this (but I’m not ruling it out either).
Yeah my only hope with some of this shit is that Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett actually have convictions and principles that they stand by (as horrible as those may be) and aren’t willing to completely destroy the Republic in exchange for expensive vacations with a billionaire.
Not holding my breath though.
They could justify it with the Chewbacca Defence, possibly replacing Star Wars names with arcane Latin legalese terms.
And who’s going to enforce that? Surely Amy Handmaid Barrett and company will get right on that.
So is everything else he’s doing but it doesn’t seem to matter.
Creating an anti-religious-hate office is not, as long as it protects all religions equally. I don’t think that’s what this will do.
Sure, but to target “anti-christian bias” looks like being oddly specific about the religion you want to protect.
Yeah, but they’re explicitly saying it’s only to protect Christianity, so that throws that defense right out the window.