You know, for a guy who appears to be warming up his engine for a run at the white house (as a Republican), he is missing a lot of free meals. By that, I mean opportunities to hook Republicans from a primary voting base that shies away from CNN or CNBC.
Missouri General Andrew Bailey has filed a brief with the US Supreme Court to support a first amendment case in the hope that SCOTUS will hear it. Eighteen other AGs have signed on. It’s not precisely earned media, but it is low-hanging fruit, but this is not the first time in recent years when “my” AG, who works for ‘my’ Governor, took a hard pass on a clear-as-vodka matter of constitutional rights.
- 21 State Attorneys General Question Federal Overreach in Democrat “Rescue Bill” – NH is Not One of Them
- Twelve States Support Camp Constitutions SCOUTS “Free Speech” Case – NH, Is Not One of Them!
This time around, we’re talking religious liberty.
College of the Ozarks sued the Biden administration in 2021 after an executive order banned housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The institution and the Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit on the grounds the order forced religious schools to violate their views by prohibiting same-sex dormitories, including rules allowing a transgender person who identifies as female to live in a female residence hall. …
“The College’s pre-enforcement suit raises serious challenges to expansive and careless executive action that tramples religious liberties,” the brief states. “The courts have failed to recognize that HUD’s Directive is a legislative rule.”
Joining Missouri are Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia.
We can agree that the Biden EO has nothing to do with discrimination. It is a culture war flanking maneuver to normalize an unchristian sexual proclivity that undermines religious conscience and freedom. And it is an issue that Republican primary voters care about, so it makes sense for a toe-dipping RINO like Sununu to sign on to it, mainly because his record on the culture war is so abysmal.
And no, I don’t think he hung back as a matter of principle. He is a stooge for the transgender agenda. A deep-state tool. He has every reason to be disingenuous if it gets him a rung or two closer to any brass ring. But here we are. Low-hanging fruit. The opportunity to stand up for religious liberty and New Hampshire is a wallflower.
If SCOTUS takes it, there’s the opportunity for a media free lunch. If SCOTUS doesn’t, there is an opportunity for a media free lunch. It’s hard to see some way in which he loses, at least with Primary voters, and based on his lousy polling, he needs all the help he can get.
And no, I’m not saying I want him to run or win the GOP primary. And I don’t want him running for the VP consolation prize, which I’ve posited elsewhere is the only thing he could gain from running. However, a cabinet position in any resulting Republican administration could be on his radar. But it’s on the table and whispered in the dark corners of the GOPe. If he is serious, shouldn’t he act like it?
And yes, I did notice that South Dakota (Noem) and Florida (DeSantis) were also conspicuously absent.
