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American Civil Liberties Union agreed to dismiss its lawsuit challenging the law.
AFTER the courts ruled against them. You cant file a court case against something that is no longer being enforced.
In January, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law, finding that it violated the First Amendment right to participate in political boycotts.
She's not a Texas teacher, she's a contractor and Texas law states that the state will not do business with any entity involved in the BDS movement.
It's also not an oath, it's policy.
She's out of luck.
She is a teacher. She lives in TX. She got fired, canned, her contract not renewed (all mean the same damn thing when you no longer have your job). It IS a pro Israel oath in that it forces her to support Israel in order to keep her job. It tells her that she has to agree not to boycott products from Isreal. That is "pro Israel" and that is an oath.
I don't care if you like the title, the fact remains, the government has no business telling people who they can and cannot boycott.
Do a little research. There are laws all over the country like this. And the impetus is the UN.
I agree with Glen Greenwald, who created the title, that it is a pro Israel oath. I don't give a rat's behind what you think about that title. And if you want to keep carrying on about it, you can take that up with Glen Greenwald.
(I suppose had you actually read the link, you would have seen that - so it looks like you didn't even read the story, considering that title is very big, very bold, and right in your face when you click the link.)
An independent contractor cannot be contracted to compelled speech by a public entity. Period. That's unconstitutional.
Government does it all the time, in Public schools. Contractor is a special person.
The teachers and especially the students, are under restricted 1st amendment rule everyday.
That is an export law, I don't believe it applies.
Like I indicated if that was the case why the need to single out Israel.
Of course it's an export law. Boycott is about trade. It's not about anything else. That's why the state law in these cases are so dumb. It's an Evangelical desire shrouded as a trade case. They single out Israel because in the last 50 years or so, that's been the only actual substantive boycott, other than the new one against Qatar this year. And saying Israel gives Evangelicals a semi.
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