Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Trump’s ALL-CAPS ‘Deepest Sympathies’ for McCains Not Good Enough for His Media Haters

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‘I think this man could walk across the Hudson River and the New York Times would say Donald Trump can’t swim…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) If President Donald Trump’s motives in posting tributes to late Sen. John McCain, a former GOP political adversary, were to draw more press attacks on himself, he certainly succeeded.

Trump, like many others, honored McCain after his passing on Saturday with posts on Twitter and Instagram that offered his condolences:

However, echoing a recent statement Trump made honoring singer Aretha Franklin, media outlets like CNN wasted no time in turning a critique of the president’s tributes into the main story.

On his Instagram post, Trump used a template that he frequently uses on the picture-based platform, in which a statement in quotation marks is accompanied by a candid photo of himself.

As the statement was the exact same one issued on Trump’s go-to platform, Twitter, it seems unlikely that he personally oversaw the Instagram post.

Trump Fires Aide who Joked about John McCain Dying 1
John McCain (USA Today/Youtube)

Still, several media outlets were among the chorus of naysayers bashing him for including a photo of himself and not McCain, and “questioning the President’s motives for omitting the Senator,” according to CNN.

With a busy slate of developing global events to attend to—including those in North Korea, Syria and Mexico, plus the sideshow controversies of the Mueller investigation being ginned up by his domestic opponents—Trump probably put little thought at all into recognizing the mercurial McCain, who had referred to him as a “reality show facsimile” of a president and personally made sure to bar him from attending the funeral.

Out of respect for the Bush family, Trump previously skipped the funeral of Barbara Bush in April.

Trump’s predecessor, President Barack Obama, likewise drew criticism for snubbing the funerals of right-wing icons such as Nancy Reagan and Antonin Scalia.

In his 417 word tribute to Scalia (in which he also announced his intentions to replace the late Supreme Court justice), the notoriously solipsistic Obama logged nine instances of personal pronoun use (I, me, we) with little fanfare from the media.

Obama later went on to make crass jokes about replacing Scalia.

By contrast, Trump fired an aide who joked about the dying McCain, although the White House declined the media outcry to apologize for the remark.

Notwithstanding the defenses of Trump’s ‘motives’ or past precedent for holding back on McCain, the simple fact remains that it was a no-win situation for the president.

Were Trump suddenly to have jumped on the McCain bandwagon, as a disconcerting number of left-wingers did, he would, no doubt, have been accused of appropriating McCain’s image.

Borrowing a famous quotation from Lyndon Johnson about media spin and bias, in an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News that aired a month before the inauguration, former Gov. Mike Huckabee rightly assessed the Trump paradox:

“I think this man could walk across the Hudson River and the New York Times would say Donald Trump can’t swim. That’s how bad it is.”

CEOs Gripe over Tighter Screening of Skilled Worker Visas

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‘Revoking their U.S. work authorization will likely cause high-skilled immigrants to take their skills to competitors outside the United States…’

Apple's Tim Cook, President Donald Trump, Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Amazon's Jeff Bezos
Apple’s Tim Cook, President Donald Trump, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos/IMAGE: WhiteHouse.gov via YouTube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Even as President Donald Trump’s economic policies have been a boon for corporate America (and Main Street America), some of the most ardent left-leaning company execs continue to pick nits and declare impending economic disaster.

Apple’s Tim Cook, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi and JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon were among the group of CEOs who co-signed a letter Wednesday as part of the Business Roundtable, criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policy for its negative business impact.

The letter, addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, complained that a shortage of permits for highly skilled workers, known as H-1B visas, was “causing considerable anxiety for many thousands of our employees while threatening to disrupt company operations.”

It is by no means the first time business leaders have cried foul over Trump’s immigration policies. Cook, for one, has made repeated appeals to the Trump White House to take a more ‘compassionate’ stance on issues like the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals and the so-called ‘Muslim ban’ restricting travel to and from certain terrorist safe-harbors.

While the brunt of Trump’s immigration reform has been aimed at unskilled labor entering the country illegally, he previously directed Cabinet members to explore H-1B solutions that would avoid displacing American workers.

Current law limits the H-1B program to 85,000 new visas annually. Even so, reported The Mercury News, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director Francis Cissna has cited “all sorts of fraud and abuse” in the immigration systems.

As a result, Cissna has placed greater focus on extensive investigative interviews and frequent on-site visits to companies that employ H-1B workers.

Agency Mission No Longer to Serve 'Nation of Immigrants'
Francis Cissna/IMAGE: YouTube

The Business Roundtable said USCIS had “issued several policy memoranda over the past year… resulting in arbitrary and inconsistent adjudications.”

Among the issues with which the group took umbrage were inconsistent approval policies that resulted in greater uncertainty, the revocation of special eligibility status for the spouses of H-1B workers, and a more active removal process if workers are denied permit extensions or eligibility changes.

“The reality is that few will move their family and settle in a new country if, at any time and without notice, the government can force their immediate departure–often without explanation” the Business Roundtable letter said.

The CEOs also pointed to the current labor shortage, and said in many cases the Labor Department had certified that there are no qualified U.S. workers available to do the job.

“Other countries allow these valuable professionals to work, so revoking their U.S. work authorization will likely cause high-skilled immigrants to take their skills to competitors outside the United States,” the letter said.

Cissna, for his part, said USCIS was likely to get even more thorough in its screening and follow-ups moving forward.

Between student visas, skilled worker permits and extensions, “you could have a person here for a dozen years and we never talk to them,” he said. “I don’t think that’s prudent.”

Fauxcahontas Says ‘Real’ Immigration Problems are Child Separations, Not Mollie’s Murder

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‘One of the things we have to remember here is we need an immigration system that is effective.’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A day after Mollie Tibbetts’ body was found in an Iowa cornfield and her alleged slayer, Mexican national Cristhian Bathena Rivera, indicted on murder charges, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for immigration policy that “focuses on where real problems are.”

In an interview with CNN’s John Berman, Warren said, “I’m so sorry for the family here … but one of the things we have to remember here is we need an immigration system that is effective — that focuses on where real (emphasis Warren’s) problems are.”

Warren quickly pivoted to a discussion of a months-old Democratic talking point, criticizing the separation of children at the border from their parents.

“Last month, I went down to the border, and I saw where children had been taken away from their mothers … and there was no plan for how they would be reunified,” Warren said, ignoring the fact that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol are capturing criminal and illegal aliens daily, both along the U.S. border and in cities and towns across the country.

Over a few days in June, President Donald Trump authorized border patrol agents to house children and parents illegally entering the U.S. in separate detention facilities at the border, to protect the children and make sure they weren’t being trafficked or otherwise taken advantage of.

Despite valid concerns that the existing “catch and release” policy allowed criminals to take advantage of a weak enforcement loophole by exploiting children, Trump caved to political pressure and rescinded his executive order.

Mollie Tibbetts
Mollie Tibbetts/IMAGE: FBI

Trump countered the rhetoric on the left by meeting with ‘Angel Families’ who had lost loved ones to illegal immigrants.

“These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones,” Mr. Trump said at the June meeting. “These are the families the media ignores. These are the stories that Democrats and people that are weak on immigration don’t want to discuss.”

On Tuesday night, at a rally in West Virginia, Trump also weighed in on Tibbetts’ murder, saying it “should never have happened.”

“A vote for any Democrat in November is a vote to eliminate immigration enforcement” and allow “violent criminals to be all over our communities.”

Illegal Immigrant Charged in Mollie Tibbetts Murder

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‘Justice must now be served. RIP Mollie…’

Cristhian Bathena Rivera
Cristhian Bathena Rivera/ PHOTO: Iowa Dept of Public Safety

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A lengthy search for a missing college student reached a sad end on Tuesday as murder charges were filed against illegal immigrant Cristhian Bathena Rivera in the death of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.

Fox News reports that Tibbetts’ father confirmed her body was found dumped in a cornfield in Poweshiek County, Iowa on Tuesday.

Investigators used surveillance footage to identify the 24-year-old Rivera, who they say accosted Tibbetts while she was jogging on the evening of July 18.

Nearly 1,500 people were interviewed during the 34-day search.

Rob Tibbetts, Mollie’s father, now will return to his home in the San Francisco area.

The sad outcome of the case was sure to evoke echoes of the Kate Steinle murder on a heavily trafficked San Francisco pier in 2015.

Steinle died in the arms of her father after a gun supposedly discharged while in the hands of  Jose Ines Garcia Zarate.

Zarate was convicted of illegal gun possession but later was released by a San Francisco judge.

However, the case added considerable heft to the candidacy of Donald Trump, early in his campaign, in his bid to rein in the illegal immigration crisis.

According to Fox News, Rivera is believed to have been in the country for four to seven years.

He is currently being held on a federal immigration detainer after being charged with first-degree murder.

Iowa Rep. Steve King was among those who tweeted his condolences to the family:

And Iowa Republican Senators Joni Ernst and Charles Grassley issued a joint statement after Rivera’s arrest was announced:

“We are deeply saddened that this bright, young woman’s life was cut short….No family should ever have to endure such a tragedy, especially one that could have been prevented….Too many Iowans have been lost at the hands of criminals who broke our immigration laws. We cannot allow these tragedies to continue.”

Embattled Facebook Now Rating Its Users’ Trustworthiness

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‘If someone previously gave us feedback that an article was false and the article was confirmed false by a fact-checker, then we might weight that person’s future false news feedback more…’

Facebook Stock in Free Fall, $130 BILLION Lost in Market Value
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg (screen shot: The Times of India/Youtube)

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Fake news. Data mining. Anti-conservative bias.

It would seem consumer trust in Facebook is at an all time low, with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg posting a personal loss of $3.3 billion last quarter after announcing yet another change in its newsfeed algorithms.

But it turns out that the social-media megalith may trust you just as little as you trust it.

Outlets including The Washington Post and The Sun report that Facebook recently acknowledged employing a user-rating system to determine trustworthiness, in order to “help identify malicious actors.”

The Sun cited Facebook product manager Tessa Lyons confirming that the zero-to-one rating scale measures how people interact with articles. Thus, if people were to flag articles simply because they disagreed with them, they might see their ratings downgraded.

“If someone previously gave us feedback that an article was false and the article was confirmed false by a fact-checker, then we might weight that person’s future false news feedback more than someone who indiscriminately provides false news feedback on lots of articles, including ones that end up being rated as true,” Lyons said.

However, as The Hill pointed out in a 2016 commentary, the question some may have is, “Who will check Facebook’s fact-checkers?”

Sites such as FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and Snopes.com have been known to demonstrate a clear bias against conservative perspectives through the way they qualify information and in their selection of stories.

In addition, the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network has accepted substantial sums of money from liberal activist groups such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and The Omidyar Network.

The third-party fact-checkers that Facebook uses, including Snopes and ABC News, are culled from the IFCN list.

 

Angry Mob Topples UNC Confederate Monument ‘Silent Sam’

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‘Self-proclaimed communists and anarchists were given free reign by a willfully helpless police force to complete their destruction…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) In a scene reminiscent of the liberation of Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad or the execution of Moamar Gaddafi in Libya (GRAPHIC IMAGE WARNING), mob rule took over the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus Monday to topple the oppressive presence of “Silent Sam.”

An estimated 250 people converged on UNC’s upper quad to tear down the Confederate monument around 9:15 p.m. after extensive protesting and rioting in the streets.

“Many of the wounds of racial injustice that still exist in our state and country were created by violent mobs and I can say with certainty that violent mobs won’t heal those wounds,” said state Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, a Republican.

“Only a civil society that adheres to the rule of law can heal these wounds and politicians – from the Governor down to the local District Attorney – must start that process by ending the deceitful mischaracterization of violent riots as ‘rallies’ and reestablishing the rule of law in each of our state’s cities and counties.”

The bronze statue of a Southern soldier was erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1913 to commemorate the school’s alumni who had served during the Civil War.

The “silent” part of the name reportedly came from the fact that no cartridge was included on the soldier’s belt.

Although the “silent sentinel” figure initially was a symbol of nonviolence and reconciliation, embraced by movements such as the suffragetes of the early 20th century, Sam’s continuing presence had become a point of contention in recent years, as efforts to tear down Confederate monuments in places like Charlottesville, Virginia helped spur extremism on both sides.

Protests of Silent Sam followed last year’s violent clashes in Charlottesville, followed by threats of a lawsuit.

By law, though, only the North Carolina Historical Commission had the authority to remove the statue, and not the university.

In nearby Durham last August, protesters similarly took down a Confederate statue outside the old county courthouse.

Several of those responsible for the Durham protest were charged with crimes including felony counts of inciting a riot and destruction of property over $1,500.

The district attorney prosecuting the case later dropped the charges after a judge acquitted one defendant.

Raleigh’s News & Observer reported the protest on Monday – the day before classes were set to commence – began as a rally in solidarity with a UNC graduate student who faced charges for vandalizing the statue with red ink and blood in April.

However, footage of the event appeared to show a premeditated and coordinated effort, which included covering the statue with gray banners supported by bamboo poles prior to removal.

After the toppling, one demonstrator placed a black hat on the statue with the words “Do it like Durham” as others stomped on the figure.

Some of those present wore Carolina blue bandanas over their faces with the words “Sam must fall.”

As one large group of protesters drew the attention of police who were guarding the statue, including throwing smoke bombs and engaging aggressively with onlookers, a smaller group remained at the statue.

A tweet from UNC Chancellor Carol Folt, while acknowledging the frustration within the community, condemned the act as “unlawful and dangerous”:

The North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans also responded with a statement, expressing their “disgust and outrage regarding the celebration of anarchy that the world witnessed in Chapel Hill.”

The SCV said news footage confirmed that the same defendants responsible for the toppling of the Durham statue “were once again at the forefront.”

It faulted police for inaction, despite ongoing requests for protection. “This same group of self-proclaimed communists and anarchists were given free reign by a willfully helpless police force to complete their destruction.”

The Workers World Party, a pro-Marxist organization that had ties with the Durham protest, issued posts on its social media accounts celebrating the statue’s toppling but did not claim any involvement with the act.

Blue States Fight Trump EPA, Want to Keep Taxpayer-Funded Science a Secret from Public

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‘The era of secret science at EPA is coming to an end…’

EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler
EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler (center) /PHOTO: EPA.gov

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) American taxpayers fund scientific research (much of it advocacy disguised as research) to the tune of billions of dollars a year, but now several states and local governments want to keep how that science is conducted a secret — and may sue the Trump administration to do so.

Ask any introductory science student what the most fundamental tenets of research are and you will hear words like replicability and verifiability.

It stands to reason, then, that when the Environmental Protection Agency in April proposed its “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule, it would be universally lauded and embraced by the scientific community.

The proposed rule would stipulate that any science used in establishing agency policy be publicly available, noting that the approach was consistent with that of leading scientific journals and compliant with government demands.

In signing the rule, former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a press release, “The era of secret science at EPA is coming to an end. The ability to test, authenticate, and reproduce scientific findings is vital for the integrity of rulemaking process. Americans deserve to assess the legitimacy of the science underpinning EPA decisions that may impact their lives.”

However, a group of 23 state attorneys general and city attorneys is opposing the plan, calling it an effort to ‘censor’ science.

The group issued a 33-page encyclical to acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler last week, outlining their dissent. They threatened to press forward with a lawsuit if Wheeler does not amend the rule.

One of the opponents, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, complained in his own release that requiring full public transparency would exclude many peer-reviewed scientific studies, such as health studies, that are bound by confidentiality protections.

The policy, he said, is “arbitrary and capricious, violates controlling federal law, and contains clear errors in reasoning.”

Many current EPA regulations, such as clean air and water acts, rely on such confidential data, Stein asserted.

“By compromising EPA’s ability to use the latest, best available, and generally-accepted science, the proposed rule would violate the very federal laws that EPA is required to uphold,” he said.

The issue of transparency has been one of particular concern related to climate-change scholarship.

Organizations studying the correlation between man-made carbon emissions and global warming, such as Great Britain’s University of East Anglia, were notably exposed in 2009 to be cherry-picking data that supported their hypotheses when a hacker released more than a thousand emails among climate researchers.

Climate Scientist Says Global Warming ‘Worsened’ Hurricane Harvey
Michael Mann/IMAGE: YouTube

In 2014, a leading voice among climatologists, Penn State professor Michael E. Mann, successfully staved off efforts to have his prior research from the University of Virginia be subjected to the state’s Freedom of Information laws.

Although Mann previously had been implicated in the 2009 Climategate scandal, the National Science Foundation’s inspector general cleared him of misconduct, and Virginia’s Supreme Court awarded him $250 in damages from those pushing him to release his data.

Some politicians, such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, have raised questions about NSF’s own advocacy efforts, including the approval of nearly $4 million to promote ‘climate education’ for television meteorologists with the hopes of generating more positive coverage.

Meanwhile, climatologists like Mann, political figures like former Vice President Al Gore and sympathetic journalists, such as Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein, continue to ascribe everything from heat waves to cold snaps, hurricanes and forest fires, to man-made variations in temperature.

Liberals Lose Grip over Trump’s Aretha Franklin Tribute

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‘Trump can evidently find no greater achievement than working for him, in service of his goals…’

Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin/PHOTO: joe ortuzar (CC) via Flickr

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Leave it to the deranged press to turn the life of a musical pioneer into a story about Trump.

While many eulogized singer Aretha Franklin, who died on Thursday at age 76, the condolences that President Donald Trump paid Franklin prior to a cabinet meeting threatened by Friday to eclipse any coverage of the Queen of Soul’s actual life.

In context, Trump’s offhanded remark “she worked for me on numerous occasions” seemed to support his anteceding statement that he knew Franklin “well” on a professional level.

Trump continued by saying, “She’s brought joy to millions of lives, and her extraordinary legacy will thrive and inspire many generations to come.”

Yet, to the liberal dog-whistle mindset, the idea of Franklin working for Trump under any circumstances was intolerable.

“Trump can evidently find no greater achievement than working for him, in service of his goals,” wrote Vann Newkirk in The Atlantic.

Naturally, even that was not enough.

Newkirk also felt compelled to place Franklin on a continuum of black women affronted by Trump that included Omarosa Manigault Newman, Maxine Waters, and other media and political opponents who have engaged in personal rivalries with the president.

“[B]lack women elicit the most bellicose and vulgar insults from him when they cross the line from associate to adversary,” Newkirk wrote.

Conveniently, Newkirk neglected to mention that the same holds true of anyone, regardless of race or gender. To arbitrarily lump the distinguished Franklin in with Trump’s adversaries, thus, is to reduce her accomplishments to a demographic and lower the bar on all that she achieved.

However, the media couldn’t stop there. Once the race-baiting reflex had run its course, there was the obligatory ‘fact-checking.’

In an article titled “Aretha Franklin ‘worked for me,’ claims Trump. Did she?” Washington Post writer Isaac Stanley-Becker detailed the various casino openings that Franklin attended with Trump while steadfastly asserting her left-wing bona fides.

Meanwhile, The Daily Beast, citing anonymous sources, pointedly insisted that “Though she largely refrained from publicly criticizing Trump … she was repelled by the Republican standard bearer.”

Apart from her powerful vocals, one thing that made Franklin’s music stand out was her delivery. She mastered the concept of reading between the lines—that sometimes it is the notes and syncopation left un-played that matter as much as the ones you play.

Likewise, her class stemmed from the fact that she could leave certain things unspoken and let her actions and music do the talking.

While in life, Franklin sought to transcend petty political squabbling, the “chain of fools” on the Left now will ensure that her legacy remains shackled by it.

 

Another Renegade Court: Judge Wants to Spring Saudi Illegal from Jail

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‘Will not stand by and let local jurisdictions face unwarranted judicial activism…’

Groups Create 'Spotter System' to Help Illegals Avoid ICE
PHOTO: Immigration and Customs Enforcement

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As the Trump administration continues its court battle over sanctuary cities, illegal-immigration advocates are testing another strategy: suing those who cooperate with immigration enforcement.

The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County currently is embroiled in legal wranglings with Abdullah Abriq, a Saudi national who studied at Tennessee State University before overstaying his student visa.

Abriq was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which temporarily housed him in the county jail before resuming custody.

A group of activist immigration lawyers in Nashville subsequently filed a class-action suit on behalf of Abriq and others like him, alleging that local detention violated the immigrants’ Fourth Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure.

The suit claims Nashville officials, with nothing more than an Order to Detain from ICE, lacked the probable cause or criminal charges needed to hold Abriq.

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee has sided with Abriq, saying a formal agreement between ICE and the county would be needed in order to deputize local officers as immigration agents.

However, the Immigration Reform Law Institute hopes a recent ‘friend of the court’ filing will reverse that.

IRLI said in a press release that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is higher hierarchically but not directly above the Nashville district court, has ruled that no such prior agreement is necessary.

“IRLI will not stand by and let local jurisdictions face unwarranted judicial activism because they choose to comply with federal law by cooperating with ICE,” Dale L. Wilcox, IRLI executive director and general counsel, said in the press release.

While courts have ruled that even illegal immigrants may be afforded certain constitutional rights, such as free speech and due process, the question of probable cause further complicates the issue since crossing the border illegally is itself a federal crime.

“The idea that probable cause of criminal activity is necessary when detaining an alien is a complete legal fallacy that open borders groups have passed off as the rule of law,” Wilcox said. “It is IRLI’s job to remind the court of what the law is, not what activist lawyers wish it was.”

Hillary Encourages Middle Schooler to Kneel for Pledge of Allegiance

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‘My current belief is that, like, legally this is not in her rights as a teacher to speak to a student like this…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) In her 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton often touted herself as a role model for young women.

Now, it seems, the embittered also-ran is still inspiring girls to follow her example … by breaking the law.

On Wednesday, Clinton tweeted out her support for Mariana Taylor, an 11-year-old Baltimore student who was reprimanded by her teacher in February for kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance.

Taylor testified before her schoolboard, “My current belief is that, like, legally this is not in her rights as a teacher to speak to a student like this.”

Although her cause garnered the support of organizations like the ACLU, unfortunately, Taylor’s interpretation of the law has no statutory basis.

According to §7–105 (c)(3) of the Maryland Code for Education, all students and teachers are required to stand and salute the flag during the Pledge.

While subsection (d) of the same statute provides that students or teachers wishing to be excused from the requirement may do so, subsection (f) notes that “Any individual who commits an act of disrespect, either by word or action, is in violation of the intent of this section.”

Mariana’s mother told CBS News that after the girl became upset she was allowed to leave the classroom, as permitted in the statute.

In her school board testimony, Taylor makes reference to Tinker v. Des Moines, a 1969 landmark Supreme Court case that upheld students’ right to wear arm bands protesting the Vietnam War.

However, the case was later superseded by 1988’s Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, which established a standard preventing students from expression that would result in disruption of the learning environment.

“I feel that my confrontation was more disruptive than kneeling itself,” Taylor said.

But while the burden of proof may be on the school system to provide a rationale for its censorship, it may be up to Taylor to explain what, exactly, she was protesting to begin with.

NFL Won't Sign Anthem Protester; Says He'll Kneel No More
Eric Reid & Colin Kaepernick/IMAGE: YouTube

The issue of kneeling during the National Anthem, initiated by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, drew to fever pitch last season after President Donald Trump entered the debate.

Following informal boycotts and loss of revenue, along with the political pressure, the NFL agreed in May to end the practice on the field and to fine non-compliant players.

However, protests from the players’ union caused the league to suspend the ban in July.

Some players have continued the practice during the current preseason, although Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott notably weighed in on his objection to kneeling.

The controversy also has spilled over into other public spheres, including local government, where city councilors in some municipalities began kneeling for the Pledge.

In Atlanta, a charter school announced recently that it would no longer participate in the Pledge but reversed the decision following backlash. Georgia Code requires that each student “be afforded the opportunity to recite the Pledge” every school day.

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