Not all District Court Judges are likely to be plant-based, ham-handed left-wing shills. A few might assume that the government is at fault and save taxpayers loads of money on cases where it should have behaved differently. Take the latest flag pole discrimination case. The City of Nashua, New Hampshire, was obvious and blatant in its viewpoint discrimination. It’s not even a gray area. Yes to pride and BLM flags, no to the Pine Tree Flag.
A District Court Judge dismissed the case because the plaintiffs did not prove to the court that they were likely to succeed. That could have been poor lawyering and not plant-based, ham-handed left-wing deceit, but I doubt it. The Plaintiffs, Beth and Stephen Scaer, both longtime contributors to GraniteGrok.com, have—in my opinion—plenty of proof and the full faith and backing of past US Supreme Court precedent. [City of Nashua Admits They Were Wrong to Take Down My Save Women’s Sports Flag]
The content we’ve published on these pages makes a good case for the Scaers. Nashua has exercised viewpoint discrimination. The City knows it, and they have danced around it for years. The only question is whether, had the case not been dismissed, would they have settled or continued to spend more in defense of the indefensible.
Anyone who knows Donchess and the city’s legal team can guess. It’s not their money, spend it. And so they shall. The ruling will be appealed to the First Circuit, which may be more likely to view the context of Shurtleff vs. City of Boston (Hal Shurtleff is another ‘Grok contributor who had a flag flap and won) in a more relevant light. That will cost Nashua taxpayers a bit of scratch, and a lot more if it goes to the US Supreme Court.
Mayor Donchess doesn’t care. He’d rather coddle the notion that he can win this regardless of cost than admit to his partisan asshattery. Again, it’s not his money. Nor is the cost to cover the plaintiffs’ legal and court fees, which cost the city of Boston over 2 million dollars.
