You Don't Have to Live In Indiana If You Are a Rufugee.

[Jimmy Higgins]

Meanwhile, some states a while ago said they wanted to help increase the chances of people becoming terrorists, by keeping them holed up in refugee camps, unemployed, hungry, and desperate to help their family.

One of these states was Indiana, The Drive-Thru State. A Federal Court told Indiana and their Governor Mike Pence to "Go fuck themselves".

Okay, that may be a bit more than a paraphrase.

The court upheld a lower court judge in barring Pence from interfering with the distribution of federal funds to resettle Syrian refugees in his state. The appeals court panel said that federal law bars discrimination based on nationality.

Of greater interest was that the unanimous decision wasn't actually partisan. It consisted of three conservative judges.

The three-judge panel that issued the ruling is an all-star group of conservative judges, including one of the judges on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees.

They considered Pence's argument that they be terrorists was "utter bullshit"... I mean "nightmare speculation".

It really cuts the right-wing's legs off.

Writing for the court, Judge Richard Posner called Pence's argument "the equivalent of his saying (not that he does say) that he wants to forbid black people to settle in Indiana not because they're black but because he's afraid of them, and since race is therefore not his motive, he isn't discriminating."


Posner went on to add that "that of course would be racial discrimination, just as [Pence's] targeting Syrian refugees is discrimination on the basis of nationality."

 

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Those damn libral courts are just supporting Obama's agenda to destroy white Christian Merica...</rightwingreaction>

 

[ideologyhunter]

Indiana has more than a touch of Southern-style xenophobia and paranoia.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Indiana has more than a touch of Southern-style xenophobia and paranoia.

No fucking shit. I lived there, I know what you mean. I also lived in Alabama and Georgia and the racism I encountered in Indiana was worse.

Bottom line - Pence is just serving his constituency.