A U.S. district judge in Texas, known for his hostility towards the Affordable Care Act, delivered a significant blow against the law’s critical preventative care provisions in a Wednesday ruling.
“Defendants inappropriately contest the correctness of Hotze’s beliefs, when courts may test only the sincerity of those beliefs,” he writes.
This is absolute bullshit, everybody chooses to believe whatever they want, that should not give anybody excuse to fail to comply with laws.
Used to be - we had fringe crackpot perineal performative candidates - Lyndon LaRouche - for example
now we have crack pot performative judges
Hmmm seems to me that all sickness is a result of sin. At least that is what I understand the Bible says.
This crackpot Judge will get overturned. A society just can not last with these kinds of rules.
conservative activist Steven Hotze? professional asshole ?
where’s this case now ? doesn’t he have enough trouble on his own plate ?
he’s a malignant educated idiot -
In 1976, Hotze graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch with his Doctor of Medicine. Hotze promoted a series of claims with no basis in science, including that taking birth control pills made women “less attractive to men” and that "when men lose their testicles to disease or injury, they have difficulty reading a map, performing math problems and making decisions.
Straight out of Hobby Lobby.
Does that go both ways?
if he insists … but he so deranged he probably qualifies for some protection - terminally demented ?
After nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd reached Texas in early June 2020, Hotze called Governor Abbott’s office on June 6 and demanded Texas Army National Guard soldiers be sent to Houston with "the order to shoot to kill if any of these son-of-a-bitch people start rioting like they have in Dallas, start tearing down businesses — shoot to kill the son of a bitches. That’s the only way you restore order. Kill 'em. Thank you."
O’Connor is the second-craziest judge I’ve ever appeared before. When he decides that he wants a particular outcome, he will impose it on you no matter how much completely crazy stuff it takes to get there.
The craziest judge I’ve ever appeared before is in that same courthouse.
Beto’s not dead in the water and it has to do with abortion in Texas.
Beto’s got a chance.
Money quote:
My assessment is that it all comes down to how many of Trump’s new 2020 voters drop out without their idol on the ballot. And voter registrations this March were about a quarter million over November 2020, and that number will likely be more like 750k-1mm by November.
Totally OT:
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1567639389425270784?s=20&t=RFo5_WTidok7Pof0CmPMYg
Full interview
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1567641796854833152?s=20&t=RFo5_WTidok7Pof0CmPMYg
The business owner, conservative activist Steven Hotze, argues, among other things, that providing the coverage “facilitates and encourages homosexual behavior, intravenous drug use, and sexual activity outside of marriage between one man and one woman.”
When the government disputed that assertion, O’Connor brushed the rebuttal aside, saying that its factual merit didn’t matter.
“Defendants inappropriately contest the correctness of Hotze’s beliefs, when courts may test only the sincerity of those beliefs,” he writes.
I believe that Judge Reed O’Connor is an asshole.
Fortunately, my belief is both sincere and correct.
Ty Mister Nader
Republicans seems to be determined to make this election about the court’s overreach huh?
Ok.
I do not believe this is correct:
When the government disputed that assertion, O’Connor brushed the rebuttal aside, saying that its factual merit didn’t matter.
“Defendants inappropriately contest the correctness of Hotze’s beliefs, when courts may test only the sincerity of those beliefs,” he writes.
The key word above is “correctness”. While that part of it is true, “correctness does not matter”, MOTIVATION does matter.
That is as a question of fact, the Government should be allowed to dig deep into what is motivating Hotze. As I understand the current law, in fact the Government should be able to dig deep into Hotze most veiled motivations.
Like this motivation:
The business owner, conservative activist Steven Hotze argues, among other things, that providing the coverage “facilitates and encourages homosexual behavior, intravenous drug use, and sexual activity outside of marriage between one man and one woman.”
Some of the plaintiffs are longtime ACA enemies as well: Hotze has brought multiple challenges to the ACA.
Which would lead to my question;
If your belief’s are sincere, how could you possibly support Donald “has sex with porn stars while his wife is giving birth” and “grab her by the…” Trump.
I mean I would think the Government by contrasting Hotze’s political actions with his claimed religious belief’s would be able to cast serious doubt on his sincerity.
When Mitch gave these federalist hacks a gavel, it just may have kept one out of Kevin’s hands…
Haha