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There's no shortage of topics that the moderators could explore during the first presidential debate on Thursday. "But for Donald Trump there's really only one," writes pundit and podcaster Bill Press. "The Ten Commandments. He practically begged for it." |
Patrick Semansky, Associated Press file |
When Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law last week requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public classroom in the state, Trump wholeheartedly endorsed it. Which presents the debate moderators with an opportunity to ask Trump to recite the commandments, and to tell the audience which of them he has obeyed. "As late-night comics were quick to point out, Trump might get credit for number four, 'Honor Your Father and Mother,'" says Press. "But that's about it." Press writes that requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public places is a violation of the First Amendment's religious freedom clause prohibiting the creation of any state religion — as the Supreme Court has already ruled. Landy doesn't seem to care. Writes Press: "He knows that the law he signed has already been declared unconstitutional three times. But, as he told a Republican fundraising dinner four days after signing the bill, 'I can't wait to be sued.'" "In other words, Louisiana's Ten Commandments bill is not about kids or education. It's about giving today's ultra-conservative Supreme Court another opportunity to destroy the separation of church and state and advance the cause of Christian nationalism." "Meanwhile, there's always the example of Donald Trump to remind us: What's important about the Ten Commandments is not posting them but obeying them." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
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Op-eds exploring key issues affecting the U.S. and world: |
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By Elizabeth Matthew, politics and culture writer |
"Gender" as both a word and a concept obscures far more than it reveals. It has got to go. |
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By Donna Brazile, political strategist and author |
Biden should try to set the tone early on that America must maintain its role and responsibility as an international leader and a defender of democracy. |
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By Lawrence Friedman, constitutional law professor at New England Law, Boston |
The Supreme Court's failure to simply and quickly affirm the heart of the appeals court's decision regarding the facts surrounding Trump's immunity claim may foreshadow an abandonment of any commitment to minimizing the effect of the court's ruling on the political process. |
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By Jeffrey McCall, professor of communication at DePauw University |
If an administration can't move public opinion through the combined power of the federal bureaucracy, it shouldn't be allowed to leverage social media platforms to do its bidding, shutting up the voices of private citizens along the way. |
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