Given our present regime's yearning for autocracy, this is worth pondering:
— Paul Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) March 19, 2020
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
Monday, July 11, 2016
An Antidote: Today's Must-Read
This article on Judge Carlton Reeves, whom you may know as the federal judge in Mississippi who just struck down Mississippi's "Religious Freedom" bill, one of the nastiest to be enacted.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves has been in the news recently for his eloquent decision striking down Mississippi's odious anti-gay “religious freedom” law, HB 1523, which would have allowed county clerks to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and which would have given “special rights” to Christians to discriminate against LGBT people in numerous ways. But quite apart from his decisions regarding the “religious freedom” law and his earlier, equally eloquent decision striking down Mississippi's ban on same-sex marriage, Reeves has emerged as a courageous defender of the rule of law in Mississippi and an exemplar of the possibility of progress in a state that continues to be plagued by remnants of an ugly past.
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