[EL] Fwd: my Hobby Lobby op ed
Rick Hasen
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Wed Jul 2 14:23:37 PDT 2014
I think we all agree that a discussion of Hobby Lobby's merits is beyond
the scope of this listserv. Thanks Joe.
On 7/2/14, 2:22 PM, Joe La Rue wrote:
> I'm an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented
> Conestoga Wood Specialties (the other, lesser-known petitioner in what
> is known as 'the 'Hobby Lobby case'). It is difficult for me not to
> respond to what is, at best, Professor Askin's gross misunderstanding
> of what was at stake for the Green and Hahn families (the owners of
> Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties). But, as has been
> correctly pointed out, the Hobby Lobby decision has /_absolutely
> nothing_ /to do with election law and should never have been brought
> up on this list serve. I shall therefore let Professor Askin's
> erroneous statements go unchallenged and his wrong characterizations
> go uncorrected, /_because this discussion does not belong on this list
> serve_/.
>
> Joe
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Steve Klein
> <stephen.klein.esq at gmail.com <mailto:stephen.klein.esq at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Seems to be par for the course post-/Hobby Lobby./
>
> http://www.salon.com/2014/06/30/they_have_no_principles_how_corporations_and_theocrats_took_over_america/
>
> "It wasn't quiteMarch 6, 1857..."
>
> No, no, not /quite/.
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Benjamin Barr
> <benjamin.barr at gmail.com <mailto:benjamin.barr at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> The piece only gets better, Ilya. The next sentence compares
> the case to slave-owners complaining about Lincoln. I suspect
> Hitler references might have been too over-the-top.
>
> Forward,
>
> B
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Ilya Shapiro
> <IShapiro at cato.org <mailto:IShapiro at cato.org>> wrote:
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> Sorry, but I stopped reading once I saw that the first
> sentence began "Five male members of the U.S. Supreme
> Court...." Also, not sure how this relates to election law.
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> Subject: [EL] Fwd: my Hobby Lobby op ed
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> This is from today's Star-Ledger. FRANK
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> Attached.
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> Subject: my Ledger op ed
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> can you send me a pdf for distribution> FRANK
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