Dana El-Kurd
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4,891 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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While the Fifth Circuit chipped away at free speech rights for the LGBTQ plus community, it advanced the rights of states to impose speech on public school teachers.
The full court, by a 12 to 6 margin, lifted a district court's hold on a Louisiana state law requiring teachers display poster-sized copies of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
In spite of the First Amendment's prohibition on establishing a state religion or requiring religious practice, and the efforts of the founders of the American Republic like Thomas Jefferson to erect a wall of separation between church and state, James Ho celebrated the decision.
The Louisiana law was not only constitutional, Ho said, it, quote, affirms our nation's highest and most noble traditions.
That claim left Professor Yu baffled.
The question is, is he a historian?
When he said that the founding members of this country would like that, what historical record is he relying on?
But isn't that even anti-common knowledge that our founders would really resent that to push our newly established republic to a situation where we push our citizens to believe in certain things religiously?
That is exactly the reason why they left Europe.
The Fifth Circuit has presented a threat not only to the separation of church and state, free speech, and LGBTQ plus rights, but it has also placed the rights of workers in its crosshairs.
On August 19th, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction requested by attorneys for Elon Musk's SpaceX Corporation, ruling that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional and prohibiting it from acting against that company and two other corporations the NLRB charged with labor law violations.
As has often happened, the Fifth Circuit court ruling conflicts with that of another circuit court, the Ninth Circuit, which upheld the power granted by the NLRB.
This split almost certainly guarantees the case will end up in front of a Supreme Court that has been no friend of American workers.
On rare occasions, the Fifth Circuit might still acknowledge that society is tilted against the poor and people of color.
A panel made up of Fifth Circuit judges ruled that Labine Conan could proceed with her lawsuit against the United States Post Office.
A landlord who owns two properties in Euless, a suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth, Conan claimed that beginning in 2020, two local postal employees abruptly stopped delivering mail first to her and then to her tenants because she said they didn't like the idea that a black person owned the properties.
The post office is mostly shielded from lawsuits by a legal doctrine called sovereign immunity.
under which, as legal analyst Ellie Mistal explains, quote, the government cannot be held liable for monetary damages arising out of actions taken by the government.
What was unique about the United States Postal Service Buchanan case, however, was that in this circumstance, the government was causing intentional damage to a private citizen.
This time, the Fifth Circuit ruled in the favor of a marginalized citizen and ruled the suit could go forward.
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