The (in)Justice Department is trying to get a law firm and public interest group to stand down on its lawsuit claiming the AIG bailout violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment.
…in December the Thomas More Law Center filed a constitutional challenge to that portion of the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008” that appropriated $40 billion in taxpayer money to fund and financially support the federal government’s majority ownership in AIG. Spokesman Brian Rooney says his firm filed suit because AIG has a board that supervises insurance policies for Islamic customers so they will comply with Sharia law. That, says Rooney, violates the Establishment Clause.
The Thomas More Law Center isn’t backing down. Sauce for the goose. the ACLU (and various feddle gummint agencies through the years) have been steadily encroaching on the Free Exercise clause under the guise of enforcing the Establishment clause. Let’s see if stare decisis applies when the shoe is on the other foot.
Trackposted to Rosemary’s Thoughts, and The World According to Carl, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
What would we do without the Thomas More Law Center? Thank goodness someone is getting into this Sharia banking compliance “stuff.” Almost everyone but bloggers are ignoring it.