I don't know what to make of this. A Trump supporter sues a paper that misrepresents him in an altercation with an opposing protestor. On one hand, it might be a useful tactic against media bias: defamation. On the other, since when did conservatives go to litigation and the bare-knuckled approach, instead of the high road and persuasion? Something's rotten in the state of conservatism. But that's old news, I suppose.
Two opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye today.
1. Alan Dershowitz, professor at Harvard Law, fights back against the MeToo movement, having been accused of sexual harassment when the objective evidence completely favors his innocence. No matter. If you are accused twice, even when the same lawyer is behind both accusations, people start calling his innocence "inconclusive." Dershowitz is right that accusers have a civil right to a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, but we are quickly losing that right in our society.
2. The Supreme Court is revisiting the case where an employee asks for a day off for religious reasons. The 1972 law is that the employer needs to give it unless it causes said employer undue hardship. A 1977 court verdict made that hardship a bare minimum, almost an inconvenience, which any reshuffling of employee schedules is. So the obligation was virtually gone. Let's hope the court restores some leeway for the conscience of employees for religious reasons with employers who couldn't care less about the Sabbath.
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