Thread by @matt_cam

THIS IS THE FUTURE THAT CONSERVATIVES WANT

The Christian Republic of Texas. The Catholic State of Missouri. The Evangelical Commonwealth of Virginia.

This is it. This is where it's all been going, and at this pace they could have it by the end of the next #SCOTUS term.

Before 2016, America First Legal would have been considered an extremist fringe movement. Today, it is a leading voice of "conservative" legal "thought" led by 2 of the Trump admin's worst.

It's like seeing a Bond villain publish his plans in a press release

Given Gorsuch's total absence of legal reasoning in #Kennedy & reliance on "history and tradition" arguments, I don't see how this #SCOTUS doesn't accept the argument that the Establishment Clause was only intended to apply to the federal government and not the states

I was rushing & didn't include alt text! It's an excerpt from an America First Legal press release w/stated intent to have #SCOTUS find that the 1A's Establishment Clause leaves states free "decide whether & to what extent they will establish religion in their own borders"

This all brings a lot more context to why #Gorsuch was so willing to openly mispresent the facts of #Kennedy in his rush to kill off the "Lemon" test courts have used since 1971 to review EC challenges.

This is straight-up Christofascism, and it's coming to a state near you.

Does the United States of America survive this? Should we?

Excerpt from an interview with a German professor in "I Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945," posted without comment

*"They Thought They Were Free."

Full text free for download here. I read it over the weekend and keep coming back to it.

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