‘If you think this virus cares about your race you probably work for or watch MSNBC….’
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Republicans have defended referring to the coronavirus as the “Wuhan virus” after leftists accused them of racism and xenophobia.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., first referred to the virus as the “Wuhan virus” when he announced he would self-quarantine himself after coming into contact with a Conservative Political Action Conference attendee who had tested positive.
1. I am announcing that I, along with 3 of my senior staff, are officially under self-quarantine after sustained contact at CPAC with a person who has since been hospitalized with the Wuhan Virus. My office will be closed for the week.
Dear @DrPaulGosar: I will pray for you, your staff & the person hospitalized.
Also, calling #COVIDー19 the Wuhan Virus is an example of the myopia that allowed it to spread in the US. The virus is not constrained by country or race. Be just as stupid to call it the Milan Virus. https://t.co/of91p65mIO
Conservatives, however, pointed out that several diseases have been associated with the region in which they originated.
A few examples include: Swine flu, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, Spanish flu, etc.
Gosar also shot back at Hayes and said it is “astoundingly ignorant” to label Republicans racist when most media outlets have similarly referred to the coronavirus as the Wuhan virus.
Just astoundingly ignorant to have all major media refer to it as #WuhanVirus for months but somehow, today, you’ve decided that’s #racist. If you think this virus cares about your race you probably work for or watch MSNBC. Wuhan Virus. Wuhan Virus. Wuhan Virus. https://t.co/xOLD9XE8BT
‘Understandably, the Biden campaign has a strategic interest in intimidating social media companies into suppressing true and embarrassing video evidence…’
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The Trump campaign clapped back after left-leaning Twitter selectively labeled a video highlighting Democratic front-runner Joe Biden‘s many gaffes as “manipulated media.”
The offending video showed a clip of Biden—whom some have said shows signs of clinical dementia—fumbling with his words before arriving at the conclusion that “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.” The video did not alter or manipulate Biden’s statement, although it cut off before he completed his sentence.
Trump campaign officials called Twitter’s label a double-standard, noting that similar videos released on Biden’s own social media had avoided the label, reported Fox News.
“Understandably, the Biden campaign has a strategic interest in intimidating social media companies into suppressing true and embarrassing video evidence of Joe Biden’s continued inability to communicate coherently,” wrote Trump campaign chief operating officer Michael Glassner in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other company decision-makers.
Glassner said Biden’s frequent confusion was “a sad truth that has been publicly noted by Democrats and media figures alike.”
Joe Biden / IMAGE: @DanScaviano via Twitter
But he said media—including Twitter—were overcompensating for the concerns they, themselves, had raised only a short time ago.
“[I]t appears that many people employed by Big Tech corporations in Silicon Valley are assisting the Biden campaign by instituting a special ‘Biden protection rule’ that effectively censors and silences legitimate political speech Biden’s campaign and its supporters do not like,” Glassner wrote.
Despite the glaring flaws that the septuagenarian former vice president and his main opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, both face heading into the general election, the Left has been determined to present Biden in a positive light after the bruising primary battle.
The Democratic nominating contest came into clearer focus after last week’s Super Tuesday primaries and could be resolved if Sanders—as well as Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the last remaining female candidate—fail to gain any further traction in a spate of upcoming primaries.
“The Biden campaign is scared as hell that voters will see the flood of unedited and embarrassing verbal stumbles that will continue go viral if ‘Status Quo Joe’ is the nominee,” Trump campaign rapid response director Andrew Clark told Fox News.
“Twitter shouldn’t be an enforcement arm of Joe Biden’s campaign strategy, but if they choose to police every video clip they must hold his own campaign to the same standard.”
Glassner pointed to a video posted by Biden’s account and called on Twitter to label it, similarly, as manipulated media.
We can’t sit by and lose this country to Donald Trump. Today, we take it back — together.
‘I do think that there is a precedent that unfortunately could be starting to set in, which really started with President Trump…’
Michael Bloomberg/Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC)
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg took criticism from both sides of the aisle for trying to buy the presidential election.
That backfired spectacularly on Super Tuesday, when—despite flooding the airwaves and spending an estimated $500 million on his self-financed campaign, he was able to win only a single primary, the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
But his short-lived campaign also worked to his benefit as his lawyers found legal loopholes to avoid making public his many assets—which some even speculated might include a leading conservative website that drastically reversed its political outlook during the campaign.
Although Bloomberg announced his candidacy in November, in order to meet the filing deadline to make the ballot in crucial Super Tuesday states, he was able to avoid the 30 day deadline to disclose his financial holdings by twice filing for extensions.
His requests cited “the complexity of his holdings and the need to obtain certain information from third parties,” according to Forbes.
But it wouldn’t be the first time Bloomberg surreptitiously sought to shield his political influence through indirect means.
Most notoriously, he used a grant provided to the New York University law school to pursue his global-warming agenda by having the school staff environmental activists, working ‘pro-bono’ in the offices of several Democratic attorneys-general.
The scheme prompted the formerly GOP-led Virginia legislature to enact a new law that would require such personnel decisions in the AG’s office and other executive wings to be vetted and approved by the General Assembly.
Some on the Left have continued to hound President Donald Trump for refusing to disclose his taxes, which has been used to advance conspiracy theories about his alleged Russia collusion and other foreign emoluments.
Trump has said his returns are under IRS audit and that, given the media’s fondness of attacking him and the past history of partisanship within the federal bureaucracy, making them public would invite his opponents to try to find dirt on him where none existed.
However, Trump did provide an 88-page financial disclosure list, which shed light on his business transactions over the past year. True to form, media adversaries scrutinized it to attack the president by saying several of his high-profile resorts were failing financially.
Trump, himself does not oversee the day-to-day operations, although family members, including son Eric Trump, maintain charge of the Trump Organization, and his association with the brand continues to have an impact.
At least one leftist advocacy group sought to deflect from Bloomberg’s questionable attempts to duck the disclosure requirements by claiming he was simply following the precedent set by Trump.
“I do think that there is a precedent that unfortunately could be starting to set in, which really started with President Trump, who broke decades of tradition in not disclosing his tax returns,” claimed Noah Bookbinder, executive director at the far-left Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Bookbinder did not elaborate as to whether the refusals of Democratic candidates to offer those disclosures also warranted incessant media coverage and libelous accusations of collusion directed at them, up to and including impeachment.
‘For such discrimination to be raising its ugly head again—this time against those of us on the right—is astonishing…’
Apple’s Tim Cook / IMAGE: CNBC via Youtube
(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) A new report from a corporate watchdog found that employees at the Securities and Exchange Commission favor progressive shareholds proposals over moderate and conservative proposals.
Scott Shepard, the coordinator for the National Center for Public Policy Research‘s Free Enterprise Project, researched how SEC employees treated different anti-discrimination proposals, NCPPR reported.
The study’s findings do not bode well for the majority of Americans who oppose radical progressive policies, since the SEC plays a critical role in determining the direction of America’s corporations.
Corporations let groups of shareholders offer plans, which shareholders as a whole then vote on at annual meetings, that dictate company policies.
If corporations oppose policy proposals, then they can petition the SEC to let them block votes on them.
Shepard learned that SEC employees will support proposals to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation yet let corporations block proposals that would ban viewpoint discrimination, despite overwhelming evidence of the latter.
Plus, Shepard said the SEC changed its rule to make the review process for shareholders proposals much less transparent.
“Workplace discrimination is always wrong,” Shepard said. “It’s wrong when it’s done on the basis of sex and race, and it’s wrong when it’s done on the basis of viewpoint and political affiliation.”
Shepard noted the irony in left-wing groups now seeking to suppress and blacklist workers due to their ideological values.
“We as a country decided in the 1950s to leave viewpoint discrimination behind, even to the extent of protecting Communists in the workplace at the height of the Cold War,” he said.
“For such discrimination to be raising its ugly head again—this time against those of us on the right—is astonishing,” he added. “For the SEC staff to be assisting that discrimination is insupportable. It must be stopped.”
For example, the SEC blocked a Free Enterprise Project shareholder proposal that “would have required Apple’s board to study the risks that arise from a failure to ban discrimination on the basis of political affiliation or viewpoint.”
Yet, the SEC backed a shareholder proposal to “require the board to study the risks that arise from a failure to ban discrimination against gays.”
‘[T]he defendant continues to act as though he has no respect for this Court, its orders, the legal process in this state, or the needs of his child for support…’
Hunter Biden / IMAGE: ABC News via Youtube
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Hunter Biden failed to hand over documents detailing his financial situation to the Arkansas court hearing his child support deposition, and now the mother of his child is asking the court to hold him in contempt.
Circuit Judge Holly Meyer ordered Biden to appear before her court for the deposition case this week and to turn over the necessary financial documents before his appearance. But he failed to do so, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
“[T]he defendant continues to act as though he has no respect for this Court, its orders, the legal process in this state, or the needs of his child for support,” reads a motion filed by Alexis Lunden Roberts, the woman with whom Biden fathered a child.
“This Court should take some action that will make the defendant follow court orders and a believer in the rule of law,” said the motion.
Hunter Biden was asked to supply Roberts with a copy of his 2017 and 2018 personal tax returns along with several other documents that include:
a list of “all financial institutions used by him or a business he owns or controls”
“a list of all companies he currently owns or in which he has an ownership interest and the state in which those companies are incorporated”
“a list of all sources of income for the past five years”
“a list of all employers for the past five years”
“a copy of deeds to properties that he owns or in which he has an ownership interest”
Circuit Judge Don McSpadden, who was initially assigned the case, made it clear to Biden’s lawyers that a he would need “to provide at least the last three years of tax returns.” The original deadline for these documents was Dec. 19.
Biden’s lawyers attempted to delay this requirement, arguing that Biden has no monthly income and should therefore not be held responsible. Meyer, however, reaffirmed McSpadden’s order and said Biden must appear before court.
“Unless his hair is on fire, he needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a deposition,” she told Biden’s lawyers.
“It’s not good enough for him to just say, ‘I’m not available.’ That’s not good enough. I need to know why he’s not available or where he is or what could possibly be more important than what’s going on in this case,” she continued. “And again, the only information I have is that your client’s not employed right now, so it’s not a work excuse. So what is it?”
Biden is scheduled to appear before the court on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the Gazette.
‘You run the risk of deciding whether or not you’re going to prostitute yourself to give the answer you know they want to hear …’
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, former presidential rival to current primary front-runner Joe Biden, became the latest to circle the wagons around Democrats’ deeply flawed presumptive anointee by attempting to distort fact.
During his recent endorsement, Booker said that Biden would “restore honor to the Oval Office and tackle our most pressing challenges.” While neither claim seems likely, one has an extensive track record actively debunking it.
Biden’s 50-year career in politics has proven, time and time again, that he is all too willing to “prostitute” himself, as he said during a 1974 PBS appearance.
“You run the risk of deciding whether or not you’re going to prostitute yourself to give the answer you know they want to hear in order to get funded to run for that office,” Biden said, according to the Free Beacon.
In the same program, the freshman senator, then in his early 30s, admitted that he benefited from tokenism due to his age.
“I’m like the token black or the token woman,” Biden said. “I was the token young person.”
Now a septuagenarian, his outlook on the superficiality of the Democratic political machine seems only to have grown stronger in the intervening decades.
Burisma and Beyond…
Conservative journalist Peter Schweizer has led the charge in building the case for Biden’s pattern of corrupt dealings, many of which serve the financial or personal interests of his close family members.
Hunter and Joe Biden / IMAGE: Donald J Trump via Youtube
Notably, Schweier’s 2017 book Secret Empires brought back to the surface the buried scandal regarding son Hunter Biden‘s corrupt business dealings in Ukraine and China.
Those arrangements have since become widely known as part of the partisan Left’s impeachment effort against President Donald Trump, who sought during a July phone call to encourage the newly-elected Ukrainian president to re-open the dormant Burisma investigation that might potentially ensnare the Bidens.
After facing public scrutiny last year over his Ukraine and China deals, Hunter Biden eventually announced his resignation from both the boards, although the Chinese government as of December still considered him a board member in his state-backed investment venture there, BHR Partners.
Biden’s outrageous drug habits and tax evasion during his father’s term as vice president—as well as his paternity in an ongoing child-support lawsuit involving an ex-Washington, DC, stripper—raise serious questions about how his presidential-hopeful dad, who failed to rein in such a serious embarrassment within his own nuclear-family unit—might hope to control an unwieldy federal bureaucracy.
A Family Tradition
Other examples from the Biden family—many of them outlined in Schweizer’s most recent book, Profiles inCorruption—suggest that the family’s meal-ticket patriarch had little interest in steering his offspring and siblings down an ethical path—preferring, instead, to use his political sway to enable their legal and moral abuses.
Frank Biden / IMAGE: The Berman Law Group
Most shockingly, perhaps, is Joe Biden’s refusal to step in to encourage his well-heeled ne’er-do-well brother Frank to honor a wrongful death verdict against him.
The reckless abuse of power and privilege carries with it echoes of the late-Sen. Ted Kennedy‘s notorious Chappaquiddick incident.
Teenage sisters Lorraina and Nicole Albano were orphaned in 1999 after a Jaguar rented by Frank Biden—with him apparently riding shotgun in the passenger seat—hit and killed single parent Michael Albano on the Pacific Coast Highway in Cardiff, Calif.
Frank’s license had been suspended at the time in Florida—but not only was he able to rent the luxury sports coupe, he claimed to be letting a much younger companion, Jason Turton, test drive the car by going in excess of 70 mph on a dark, narrow stretch of road while trying to impress two females in the back.
The women said Frank Biden told Turton to “keep driving” after hitting Albano.
Although Frank was found liable for $880,000 in a civil judgment (which, with 20 years of interest, would be well over a million dollars), the ex-veep’s sibling has refused to pay, instead sheltering his significant financial assets in offshore investments and accounts.
When confronted about it, Joe Biden falsely claimed his brother lacked the financial means to pay, despite having used his political clout to advance his brother’s business interests in a Florida charter-school scam and the flimflam development of environmentally-conscious resorts in Costa Rica and Jamaica.
The List Goes On…
More recently, according to Politico, Biden’s other brother, James, was implicated in an investigation of Americore Health, with allegations that he made himself a half-million-dollar loan from the healthcare operation’s coffers that he had yet to repay.
Joe & James Biden/IMAGE: YouTube
The fraud resulted in a January FBI raid that seized documents from a Pennsylvania-based hospital, Politico reported.
While the female members of the Biden family have managed—thus far—to stay within the confines of the law, at least according to the public record, two have been accused of egregious conflicts of interest in which they benefited from their connections and status.
Valerie Biden Owens—the candidate’s sister and longtime campaign manager—routed millions in campaign “consulting” fees through a DC firm that also happened to have her on its payroll.
Biden’s daughter Ashley was able to rise through the ranks of a Deleware-based criminal-justice nonprofit after securing $166,000 in an exclusive federal grant administered, in large part, by her father.
Ashley’s husband, Howard Krein, also joined the family corruption business after using his family ties to secure a prominent White House meeting during the Obama administration to help launch a fledgling incubator and consulting service for healthcare startups.
Magnet for Scandal
Even setting aside his family corruption, Joe Biden’s own alarming record belies Booker’s claim that he will restore honor. Democrats have skated past his uncomfortable history of inappropriate touching, which frequently has involved young females.
Biden also weathered—or ducked—accountability for his insensitive racial remarks. Those span his early career with his support for pro-segregationist policies and politicians—along with his casual use of an offensive ‘n-word’—to his more recent claim that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” during a recent Iowa campaign event.
Along the way, he’s received criticism for referring to his then-rival and future boss, Barack Obama, as a “storybook” for being “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
He also told a mixed-race audience that then-Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan sought to “put y’all back in chains” during a 2012 Virginia rally.
While his regular flubs—and possible dementia—may not signal moral turpitude, such Freudian slips offer a clear window into his true mindset when he isn’t prostituting his positions to the highest bidder.
Yet, one offense that does speak to Biden’s honor—at least, according to many a school and university “honor code” is the plagiarism scandal that derailed his first presidential campaign, when he lifted substantial portions of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock without attribution.
Biden also has been caught in minor lies and embellishments repeatedly while on the campaign trail in his current run.
He downplayed such misstatements, saying the rhetorical flourishes and poetic liberties in his stump anecdotes were irrelevant to the substance of his campaign.
Joe Biden / IMAGE: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert via Youtube
“Any gaffe that I have made—and I’ve made gaffes like every politician I know has—have been not about a substantive issue,” he claimed during a September 2019 appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
“They’ve been about other—I’m trying to talk about what other people have done,” he continued.
If Democratic voters are willing to cast aside their more immediate virtues on matters like race and gender for a more ‘electable’ but flawed candidate, then they certainly will have no scruples discarding anachronisms like “honesty.”
Even so, those throwing their support to Biden would be wise to acknowledge his shaky track record—lest they, too, find themselves caught in a lie of their own devising.
‘There is no excuse for the note writer or for you…’
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean suggested Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., deserved a note calling her a “fascist pig.”
I don’t condone this, but “as ye sow, so shall ye reap”. There is no excuse for the note writer or for you. You are a shame to your district and to a democratic United States. https://t.co/k1rQL6rgnA
And earlier this year, ABC’s Matthew Dowd singled Stefanik out and described her as “a perfect example of why just electing someone because they are a woman or a millennial doesn’t necessarily get you the leaders we need.”
“I’m honored to have been chosen as a New York State chair for the Trump campaign in 2020,” she said in January. “President Trump’s agenda of creating jobs, strengthening our military, securing our borders, negotiating better trade deals and lowering crime rates has historic support in the 21st Congressional District and across Upstate New York.
“I’m looking forward to working with his campaign to deliver another decisive victory in my district. President Trump’s record of results will win handily over far-left radical resistance in November.”
‘The evidence that is coming to me indicates that he was murdered…’
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Republican lawmakers are demanding an investigation into the death of Philip Haney, the former Department of Homeland Security official who blew the whistle on the Obama administration, due to the suspicious nature of Haney’s alleged suicide.
Haney was found dead by the side of the road in Plymouth, Calif. last month, and law enforcement officials initially declared that he had died by a “self-inflicted” gun shot wound.
“I’m standing on the floor here saying, Madame Speaker, I don’t believe that Phil Haney committed suicide,” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said on the House floor. “I expect that we’re going to get a thorough investigation. The evidence that is coming to me indicates that he was murdered.”
While working for Obama’s DHS, Haney revealed that the administration had a habit of overlooking the spread of radical Islam in the U.S.
Haney even said that multiple domestic terrorist attacks could have been prevented had the Obama administration not scrubbed information about potential terrorists.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said he was a friend of Haney’s and told the House that he had made a “mutual pact” with Haney.
“I’d been concerned about his safety, with all the information he knew and people who could’ve gotten in trouble,” Gohmert said. “We had a mutual pact. It said: Either one of us ended up committing suicide, then the other is going to make sure that the truth wins out.”
Law enforcement officials are reportedly investigating Haney’s death with the help of the FBI, and said that any conclusions about the cause of Haney’s death are “extremely premature and inappropriate.”
‘The cops are going to be the ones that are getting f***ing beaten in Milwaukee…’
Antifa/ IMAGE: Stumptown Matters via Youtube
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The growing possibility of violence from leftist radicals during the 2020 campaign is bringing under scrutiny the coalition of activist–attorneys dispatched to help groups such as Antifa duck the consequences of their actions.
With only three candidates remaining in the once crowded Democratic primary field, the media focus has shifted to the two-person horse-race between socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and the preferred establishment candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, while ignoring the last female candidate, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
The Left’s inherent sexism and racism notwithstanding, one issue that threatens to boil to the surface during and after the Democratic National Convention in July is the potential for extreme violence among its fervent base.
Sanders supporters have voiced admiration not only for Soviet-style policies but also political intimidation tactics, as revealed in a recent Project Veritas investigation.
“We’re going to make [the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago] look like a f***ing Girl Scout f***ing cookout,” Sanders campaign field organizer Kyle Jurek said, according to the Washington Times.
“The cops are going to be the ones that are getting f***ing beaten in Milwaukee,” he said. “They’re going to call out the National Guard for that s**t, I promise you that.”
Groups like Antifa, which first came into the spotlight while protesting President Donald Trump during the 2016 general election, have been linked to the funding of mega-donors like George Soros.
Even more directly aiding and abetting their jackboot attacks is the radicals’ unofficial legal arm, the National Lawyers Guild.
The NGL is a network of about 150 chapters not counting its 100 or so student chapters, according to a recent American Greatness report.
The legal coalition openly supports Antifa for [t]aking militant and confrontational direct action . . . are a crucial part of the fight against fascism,” said the report.
Its hard-left lawyers help “to ensure that the virulent white nationalism sweeping the country is met with militant resistance” and “directly confront fascism by shutting down far-right demonstrations,” according to NGL’s website.
Ironically, while openly defending violent tactics, the group’s propaganda has claimed that its anti-law-and-order efforts were justified because America “cannot depend on the government to meaningfully intervene and prevent the rise of fascism,” as several noted in a 2017 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed that sought to paint a heroic portrait of the domestic-terrorist organization.
The group justifies its violence with vague claims of opposing “white supremacy,” although it widely comprises privileged, middle class whites who have been indoctrinated to radicalism on college campuses.
It casts a wide net, however, failing to distinguish between peaceful opposition—or even simple support for Trump and other conservative candidates—with what it claims to be Nazi-like suppression of the Left.
“We believe far-right extremists have successfully twisted the right to free speech to cast themselves as victims of exactly what they strive to promote—hate and violence,” wrote NGL leaders in the op-ed, promoting conspiracy theories of a government targeting campaign focused not on their lawbreaking but their political agenda.
“This campaign to recast antifa as a violent, leftist suppression of speech is a dangerous effort eerily reminiscent of the left-baiting that accompanied the Nazi rise to power,” the NGL claimed, ironically ignoring the socialist roots of Nazism.
The solution to NGL’s delusions of persecution? Become precisely that which it claims to loathe.
“The National Lawyers Guild won’t stand by as fascists and white supremacists seek to take power in the streets and halls of government,” said the op-ed. “We stand in solidarity with all who fight hatred.”
‘For almost five long years Joe has had to miss coaching the game he loves…’
Joe Kennedy / IMAGE: USA Today via Youtube
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A federal judge ruled against a Washington high school football coach who was fired for leading his students in prayer on the field.
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton ruled that the Bremerton School District was within its rights to fire former assistant coach Joe Kennedy in 2015 after he refused its requests to stop his post-game prayers.
Kennedy had sued the school district, alleging religious discrimination. But Leighton denied his request.
“Although the court is sympathetic to Kennedy’s desire to follow his beliefs, the former right must give way to the [school district] in this case,” Leighton wrote, according to KVAL-TV. “The court therefore grants defendant Bremerton School District’s motion for summary judgment and denies Kennedy’s motion.”
Kennedy and his legal team plan to appeal the decision, according to a press release, and although they are “disappointed in this decision, we are undeterred in our mission to obtain justice for Coach Kennedy,” said Mike Berry, an attorney with the First Liberty Institute.
An atheist group, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, argued that Kennedy’s prayers were “a clear violation of religious freedom, forcing kids to choose between their own beliefs and appeasing the man who decides the lineup for the game.”
But Kennedy argued that he never once forced a student or player to participate in his post-game prayers.
“For almost five long years Joe has had to miss coaching the game he loves,” Berry said in a statement. “Joe has fought—first as a U.S. Marine, then as a coach—to prove that every American has the right to engage in individual religious expression, including praying in public, without fear of getting fired.”
Last January, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Kennedy’s case, but the First Liberty Institute said it is still hopeful Leighton’s ruling will be overturned.
