{"id":3187,"date":"2023-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/bidens-extreme-judicial-nominee-cannot-reach-bench\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:00:00","slug":"bidens-extreme-judicial-nominee-cannot-reach-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/bidens-extreme-judicial-nominee-cannot-reach-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden's extreme judicial nominee cannot reach the bench"},"content":{"rendered":"

To protect the civil rights of all Americans, the U.S. Senate<\/a> should oppose the nomination of judicial nominee Loren L. AliKhan to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Her record of repeatedly making extreme arguments and losing in court raises doubts about her qualifications, fairness, and legal judgment.<\/p>\n

In private practice and as Solicitor General of D.C., she attacked people of faith, including Sikhs. She opposed the right to assemble for worship, the right of religious organizations to choose teachers of faith and the right of faith-based groups to choose how to form without government interference. Her attacks on the First Amendment to the Constitution are far outside the mainstream and have been rejected by many courts.<\/p>\n

Indeed, AliKhan\u2019s arguments were too extreme for all 9 members of the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>. In the 2012 case Hosanna Tabor v. EEOC, AliKhan\u2019s extreme legal theory, if adopted, would have essentially eviscerated the first freedom of the Constitution. Her brief took aim at the ministerial exception, which is a religious employer\u2019s First Amendment right to make decisions about hiring and firing ministers without government interference.<\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court was not the only court to reject AliKhan\u2019s First Amendment theories. She proved too extreme for the District Court of District of Columbia, the very court to which AliKhan is currently nominated. In 2020, D.C. barred gatherings of people of faith from assembling for worship but permitted massive gatherings for political protests. In Capitol Hill Baptist Church v. Bowser, AliKhan tried\u2014and failed\u2014to justify this differential treatment based on religion. As a consequence of her loss in court, D.C. taxpayers were ordered to reimburse the church $220,000 in legal fees.<\/p>\n

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AliKhan\u2019s views were also too extreme again for the D.C. Court of Appeals when she opposed the religious liberty rights of Sikhs to build a temple in the nation\u2019s capital. The Sikh temple, National Gurdwara, has struggled over the years to have funding to stay in operation, and closed in 2012. <\/p>\n

Sikhs who worshipped at the Gurdwara also were involved in Jawant Sawhney Irrevocable Trust, a religious organization that funds an international charity serving orphans, the homeless, and people with disabilities outside D.C. In 2013, the trust filed a request for a property tax exemption to fund the reopening and operate the temple. However, AliKhan opposed the trust\u2019s religious exemption in Jaswant Sawhney Irrevocable Trust, Inc. v. District of Columbia.<\/p>\n

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FILE \u2013 \u00a0Loren AliKhan, Deputy Solicitor General for the District of Columbia, center, \u00a0speaks with Samuel L. Bray, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Universal Injunction Challenges in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (Photo by Caroline Brehman\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n

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The U.S. Supreme Court and other federal judges voted against AliKhan\u2019s extreme legal theories about the First Amendment. First Liberty Institute, along with a coalition of diverse organizations, has submitted a letter<\/a> to the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing her nomination. <\/p>\n

The U.S. Senate should vote against AliKhan\u2019s extreme legal views and stop her from becoming a district judge. <\/p>\n

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