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You may have heard that the Colorado Supreme Court dismissed the latest Harassment Lawsuit by the deranged transgender man calling zimself "Autumn Scardina" against the owner of the Masterpiece Bakeshop for not making him a "transition celebration cake."

You might have thought this is good news. It's not. It was a procedural dismissal from the Supreme Court telling the Lawfare Stalker to continue suing him in lower courts.

This baker has been harassed by these absolute monsters for 12 years now. He is literally always being sued. He has been sued, either by private lunatics or the state itself, for the last 12 years of his life.

The Colorado Supreme Court emphatically did not dismiss this suit with prejudice, or tell this transgender stalker he's sued the same man on the same claims for five years (or something like that). It did not acknowledge that the baker has free speech rights. It did not acknowlege that US Supreme Court precedents now say that the baker has the right to refuse to make artistic expressions that go against his beliefs.

It just told the transgender terrorist to sue him again in a different court.

The persecution will literally go on until the man submits to his persecutors, gives up his business, moves out of state, or dies of stress.

And David French approves of this. He's said so in the past. He hasn't recanted.

Jack Phillips owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo. Phillips sells generic cakes, but he also customizes them. When he was asked to design a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding, Phillips refused because he believed that doing so would violate his Christian faith.

When the Colorado Civil Rights Division punished him for discrimination, he sued. The case went to the Supreme Court in 2018. Phillips won based on the free-exercise clause. But the victory was hardly a definitive victory for freedom of religion. Authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy -- who also wrote the Obergefell decision that created a constitutional right to same-sex marriage -- the decision was predicated on the commission's clearly stated bias against Christians. As I wrote at the time:

This makes for a very narrow precedent that might not apply in other cases in which law enforcers aren't foolish enough to express such open antagonism.

And sure enough -- in a clear attempt to set him up -- Phillips was dragged into court again for refusing to create a cake to celebrate a gender transition. This time, Phillips found himself in Colorado courts where he lost twice. But, now, the Colorado supreme court has dismissed the case.

That's good, but the victory is not one based on religious liberty. The plaintiff in the case filed a direct lawsuit in the courts without first jumping through the proper administrative hoops. Specifically, when the Civil Rights Commission entered into a confidential settlement with Phillips and dismissed the administrative case, the plaintiff filed suit against Masterpiece directly when the proper course would have been to file an appeal against the commission's dismissal....

I am happy for Phillips, but don't be surprised if he is again subjected to merciless lawfare -- perhaps even by Scardina, as the Court ruled that "we express no opinion about the merits of Scardina's claims, and nothing about today's holding alters the protections afforded by CADA."

Does that mean the case can be reopened? I don't know.

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What the country really needs is a strong Supreme Court decision unequivocally reinvigorating the free-exercise clause by overturning Employment Division v Smith. Far more portentous issues are at stake than the freedom not to design cakes that violate one's religious convictions, as important as that is. As just one example, I believe that the continued freedom of Catholic hospitals to abide by the church's moral teachings -- say, by refusing to perform abortions, assisted suicide, and sex-transition surgeries -- depends on it.

Adam Schiff, a Representative seeking to be a Senator, demands more illegal government-coerced censorship.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) led a group of lawmakers pressuring Big Tech companies to censor free speech, including from a presidential candidate.

Schiff and seven other Democrat lawmakers signed a letter whining that "most of your companies have cut their trust and safety teams," i.e., censorship teams. Their letter not only pressed Meta, Google, X, YouTube, Snap, TikTok and Microsoft to censor anything vaguely described as "misinformation and disinformation," but lamented the fact that former President Donald Trump has been restored on multiple platforms after previous bans. The lawmakers ended the letter by suggesting increased government-Big Tech collusion.

The lawmakers pontificated that, instead of cutting censors, the tech companies should "incorporate their election efforts into their permanent plans and community guidelines." Schiff and company seemed particularly fixated on allegations of 2020 election fraud, which are protected free speech.

Kamala Harris called her palz at CNN to demand censorship of Trump's "misinformation," and to cosplay as the sitting president.

What was Trump's "misinformation"? He noted, as I did, accurately that Milton had fallen from Cat 5 to Cat 4. She says we have to lie and say it's Cat 5 because the truth is "misinformation."

This ding-a-ling dickrider has not be involved in executive matters since she was "elected." Now apparently she's Top Ho of FEMA.

Trump wasn't telling people to blow off the storm, of course. He was saying, like many of us said, I'm glad the hurricane (which is still dangerous) has lessened in ferocity. She's looking for any excuse to get on TV and Play President.

And this is a preview of her presidency: A full-on censorship regime looking to imprison its political opponents.

LOL: The AP just conducted a "flash study" which concluded that the power of Milton was increased by exactly 11% -- there's no precision like faux precision -- by global warming.

And that's now the New Science is done -- not by months or years of painstaking data collection and analysis, but politically-motivated Weekend Special "studies" ordered up by the corrupt Regime Media.

Kamala's many, many fake accents:

posted by Ace at 06:44 PM

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