Judge says businesses can discriminate so long as they write about it on Facebook
In what can charitably be described as an idiosyncratic reading of the First Amendment, a George W. Bush-appointed federal judge in western Michigan held that businesses can discriminate against LGBTQ customers so long as they explain why they did so on Facebook.
Prior to Judge Paul Maloney’s Friday opinion in Country Mill Farms v. City of East Lansing, it was well understood that the First Amendment does not protect business owners who post signs announcing “blacks need not apply” or “we don’t serve women here.” As the Supreme Court once explained in a related case, “discrimination in employment is not only commercial activity, it is illegal commercial activity,” and “we have no doubt that a newspaper constitutionally could be forbidden to publish a want ad proposing a sale of narcotics or soliciting prostitutes.”
Yet Judge Maloney’s opinion does not simply disregard this longstanding rule, it suggests that a business that is actively engaged in discrimination can immunize itself from the law simply by writing about its discrimination on Facebook.
https://thinkprogress.org/judge-says-businesses-can-discriminate-so-long-as-they-write-about-it-on-facebook-61299ff78554/
And just think.......................the sexual predator is now packing the court with more of these ass****, and since this will be appealed----------------think Neil Gorsuch, and how the U.S senate held by republicans are rat f*cking this country
I vote for one reason only, the courts, I don't want as**** packing the court with ass**** and this case is a prime example of why voting is important..............
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But, you know, emails and benghazi n stuff....
...the way republican judges read and apply laws.
I'm saying it as lawyer.
Have they studied while drunk? Did they start reading from the end? Furthermore : do they have the slightest idea about what laws, principles, equity, rights, and on means? 