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Confederate emblem 'anti-American,' judge in flag case says
AP via MSN ^ | 4/13/16 | Emily Wagster Pettus

Posted on 04/13/2016 3:57:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg

A federal judge said Tuesday that the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag is "anti-American" because it represents those who fought to leave the United States.

But U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves is not yet saying whether he will fully consider a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate the flag as a state symbol.

Reeves heard more than three hours of arguments about motions in the lawsuit that Carlos Moore, an African-American attorney from Grenada, Mississippi, filed against the state. Moore is asking Reeves to declare the flag an unconstitutional relic of slavery.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: carlosmoore; carltonreeves; confederate; grenada; kentucky; mississippi; randpaul
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The date is ironic and the lawsuit is idiotic. But given the times it'll be interesting to see how it comes out.
1 posted on 04/13/2016 3:57:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
This sounds like the stupidest lawsuit I ever heard.

These federal judges are out of control.

2 posted on 04/13/2016 3:59:55 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: DoodleDawg

Reeves is black, what cha think is gonna happen?


3 posted on 04/13/2016 4:01:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: DoodleDawg

Looks like desperate Democratic race baiting to me. Pretty easy to see where they’re going with this nonsense. If we don’t take the bait, they’ll start desecrating the graves of confederate soldiers or worse to drag us into this fight so they can say to all the black voters, see they’re all racists just like we told you.


4 posted on 04/13/2016 4:04:33 AM PDT by RC one
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To: RC one

This nonsense doesn’t accomplish anything; without the Klan boogeyman blacks have to take a hard look at themselves, and they are demoralized by what they see. Seven years after having the communist mulatto take power, they realize they are still so far behind everyone else. I believe that was a key issue in Ferguson/Baltimore; Obama’s clock is running out, and blacks are in even worse shape than when he arrived.

It can’t be concealed from them anymore, and the whites they blame are disappearing demographically; that is why they’ve switched their sights to Asians, and will eventually focus on Hispanics as well. There won’t be any other audience for their grievances (and both of those groups couldn’t care less).


6 posted on 04/13/2016 4:10:05 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Trump20162020
These federal judges are out of control.

He hasn't ruled yet. The judges have no control over suits that are filed, but they do control suits that continue. The judge already raised doubts about standing and jurisdiction. We'll see if he let's it go further.

7 posted on 04/13/2016 4:12:03 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Recompennation
Ah fun with flags. That always makes the Hawaiian state flag a bit problematic. :)


8 posted on 04/13/2016 4:21:21 AM PDT by xp38
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To: DoodleDawg
to declare the flag an unconstitutional relic of slavery.

A non sequitur for the ages, you might say. Objects are not and can never be unconstitutional.

9 posted on 04/13/2016 4:22:46 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: DoodleDawg

It will be interesting to see the reaction to this in Mississippi.
Many there are still a little peeved at the Federals. Including both of the remaining white Democrats.


10 posted on 04/13/2016 4:36:57 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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Here come da judge! Appointed by none other than Barack Barry Hussein Soretoes Obama.

11 posted on 04/13/2016 4:48:40 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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Using that logic, colored people are a relic of slavery and should be banned.


12 posted on 04/13/2016 5:00:01 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: DoodleDawg

this judge needs to be impeached for thinking he has any authority to do anything of the sort.

L


13 posted on 04/13/2016 5:05:10 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Guess we need to dig up and trash all those thousands of Confederate dead buried in Arlington.


14 posted on 04/13/2016 5:06:22 AM PDT by Happy Rain (CRUZ 2016 "Closest thing we have to Reagan." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: xp38
All those people who wet their pants over the Rebel Flag have never noticed The Union Jack flying over The State of Hawaii.

Are they blind, ignorant or stuck permanently on stupid?

15 posted on 04/13/2016 5:07:10 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: DoodleDawg
Q - What's the difference between a snow tire and aggrieved blacks?

A - You put chains on the snow tires, and they DON'T start singin'!
16 posted on 04/13/2016 5:10:00 AM PDT by mkjessup (We Don't Know. Where Heidi Went. But She Won't Be Married. To The President. Burma Shave)
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To: DoodleDawg

The “Judge” is anti-American....


17 posted on 04/13/2016 5:10:06 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Recompennation

The US won the wars against England and the Confedercy. Why fly the flag of the losers?


18 posted on 04/13/2016 5:10:12 AM PDT by stormer
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To: DoodleDawg
Judge Carlton Reeves = Obola appointee.Color me stunned!
19 posted on 04/13/2016 5:10:19 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: TYVets

The Union Jack was the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii long after the revolution and prior to Hawaii’s acquisition by the US. But you don’t think that many Hawaiians would be happy to see that changed?


20 posted on 04/13/2016 5:16:21 AM PDT by stormer
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