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COURT KAYOS CONSTITUTION
An Editorial By W. ADAM MANDELBAUM ESQ.
THE SUPREME COURT ONCE AGAIN KAYOS THE CONSTITUTION with its ridiculous right wing religious decision in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc. Bye bye to the First Amendement separation of church and state with this one. Alito, Roberts, Thomas and Kennedy, who should have flunked second year Constitutional Law for rendering such a decision, have decided that a taxpayer has NO STANDING to challenge government funding of faith based community groups.
Their reasoning is that taxpayers cannot challenge the executive decision to use such funds, merely the congressional, or legislative decision. The funding came from Executive Branch general appropriations.
DIG THIS: Taxpayer money is being used to fund religious based programs, but the taxpayers who provide the money, cannot challenge the constitutionality of this funding. This is the Bush legacy to American Justice folks.
In the dissenting opinion it was recognized, "When executive agencies spend identifiable sums of tax money for religious purposes, no less than when Congress authorizes the same thing taxpayers suffer injury."
Have we just been double crossed by this June 25, 2007 decision? What do you think?
