{"id":78632,"date":"2021-07-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78632"},"modified":"2021-07-06T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:39:35","slug":"smack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78632","title":{"rendered":"Smack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Justices Alito and Gorsuch <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2021\/07\/02\/scotus-backs-minnesota-amish-in-fight-over-septic-tanks\/?utm_campaign=true_anthem&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_source=social&amp;fbclid=IwAR3OQA54lj6e1RNf-b-LOWZCMC_d3BM_a2HUQ3Kaqyd2Ja9b0btS0kEx4Yk\">pimp-slaps the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with a rolled-up copy of the First Amendment<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIllmore County, with the MPCA at their backs, wanted to force a group of Amish families in Fillmore County to either put in septic tanks or be evicted from their homes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Fillmore County in 2013 started requiring homes to have modern septic systems to dispose of \u201cgray water\u201d from dishwashing, laundry and such. The Amish sought an exemption, saying their religion prohibits that technology. They offered instead to use earthen basins filled with wood chips to filter water as it drains, which are allowed in some states including Montana and Wyoming. But the county went as far as seeking a court order to force 23 families from their homes if they refused to comply, Gorsuch wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the Minnesota courts \u201cplainly misinterpreted and misapplied\u201d the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, which was also at issue in the Philadelphia case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The act \u201cprohibits governments from infringing sincerely held religious beliefs and practices except as a last resort,\u201d Gorsuch wrote, urging the Minnesota court and local authorities to swiftly resolve the dispute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIn this country, neither the Amish nor anyone else should have to choose between their farms and their faith,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&#8217;s judicial legacy is looking more and more to far outweigh all stress he caused.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices Alito and Gorsuch pimp-slaps the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with a rolled-up copy of the First Amendment. FIllmore County, with the MPCA at their backs, wanted to force a group of Amish families in Fillmore County to either put in septic tanks or be evicted from their homes: Fillmore County in 2013 started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,30,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-liberty","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78648,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78632\/revisions\/78648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}