Theoligarchy Watch: Adding the Ten Commandments to the Constitution?

The House of Representatives took a little-noticed but dangerous swipe at the power of the courts this week. It passed an amendment to a budget bill that would bar money from being spent to enforce a federal court ruling regarding the Ten Commandments. [...] Representative John Hostettler, Republican of Indiana, introduced an amendment to [an appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce] to prohibit any funds from being used to enforce Russelburg v. Gibson County. In that case, a federal court ruled that a courthouse Ten Commandments display violated the First Amendment and had to be removed.

every single day, in countless ways, our constitution, the balance of powers, and the separation of church and state are under assault...

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