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Teri Kanefield – It\u2019s Not About \u201cFaith\u201d<\/a> Federal Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Devin Nunes Defamation Claim Over 2019 CNN Report<\/a> Florida rejects 54 math textbooks over \u2018prohibited topics\u2019 including critical race theory<\/a> Food For Thought:<\/p>\n Yesterday,, being Easter, I more or less relaxed. Cartoon – Short Takes – Teri Kanefield – It\u2019s Not About \u201cFaith\u201d Quote – One point I keep making is that rule of law is difficult. It\u2019s frustrating. It strives for fairness but isn\u2019t always fair. Perfect fairness is not possible on Earth, where human beings are […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3751,3866,4115],"class_list":["post-47541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-insanity","tag-history","tag-justice","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – One point I keep making is that rule of law is difficult. It\u2019s frustrating. It strives for fairness but isn\u2019t always fair. Perfect fairness is not possible on Earth, where human beings are flawed, and there is constant pushback from those who prefer autocracy. This causes people to grow cynical and reject democracy. But the only real alternative is autocracy. \u201cConfidence in democratic institutions\u201d doesn\u2019t mean \u201cfaith that we always get what we want\u201d or \u201cfaith that courts will reach the right results.\u201d
\nClick through for full argument.<\/a> I found this through “Crooks and Liars” blog roundup.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Nunes had originally sued in federal court in Virginia, but a federal judge, citing concerns about \u201cform shopping\u201d and noting that there was \u201cno logical connection between the events in this case and this district,\u201d transferred the case to New York. Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed Nunes\u2019 claim in February 2021. Swain found that California law should apply to Nunes\u2019 case, since that is where he lived and would have presumably suffered the greatest damage to his reputation. In applying California law, Swain further found that Nunes had failed to meet the statutory requirement that a plaintiff alleging defamation must make a written demand for a retraction within a short period of time after publication. Nunes had not done so, and Swain determined that he could not maintain his claim.
\nClick through for details<\/a>. I’m sure Dairy Devin doesn’t think so , but I find this funny AF.\u00a0 “Musical states,” anyone?<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Florida\u2019s education department has rejected 54 mathematics textbooks from next year\u2019s school curriculum, citing alleged references to critical race theory among a range of reasoning for some of the rejections, officials announced. The department said in a news release Friday that some of the books had been rejected for failure to comply with the state\u2019s content standards, Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking [Best], but that 21% of the books were disallowed \u201cbecause they incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT\u201d.
\nClick through for what little detail the state was willing to provde.<\/a> Heaven knows what they think CRT is – but, whatever they think, it isn’t that.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/translation.jpeg\"){kind=spacer}
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