Margot Cleveland

But actually, even more interestingly, and hot off the press, Senator Grassley just released a new slate of documents in his investigation into Jack Smith that shows that there was discussion between the DOJ and the District of Columbia Court about the speech or debate clause in another context.

So this is actually I'll I'll just tell people know our colleague Margo Cleveland has an article out just this morning in The Federalist about these new documents that came out.

I'll just try to summarize briefly.

There was another investigation into Representative Perry.

Also in the news today, there's a federal lawsuit being filed against Dearborn, Michigan, claiming they're engaging in religious discrimination.

Margo Cleveland filed this lawsuit, and she says she was driving around Dearborn, Michigan, and noticed they had all kinds of public displays on public property for Islamic religious holidays.

They had symbols, decorations.

But she says they don't want to provide similar displays recognizing Christian and Jewish holidays.

muslim population i think they have a muslim mayor too

it shouldn't matter this is the government that you're talking about is the taxpayers that most likely paid for any decor that is out there and you're you have to do equal treatment of different faiths it does not matter if the majority it doesn't matter if every single one of them uh... is muslim and celebrates these holidays if you've got one person that is not you have to represent all of the religions equally

And Margo Cleveland says, I don't want them to stop putting up the Muslim symbols and recognizing Ramadan.

That's not what I'm asking for.

They are only, uh, celebrating, um, Islamic holidays.

And Margot Cleveland, she is the Federalist senior legal correspondent, um, and also New Civil Liberties Alliance of Counsel, um, she has decided to go after Dearborn for the Establishment Clause, um, a really important challenge.

Margot, welcome to the program.

Thanks so much.

Mm-hmm.

But as Margo Cleveland wrote, "Quick, quick thoughts on the blow up regarding Smith attending the wrong basketball game.

At least it was a mistake and not intentional lies that deep state peddled and passed to a secret FISA court." You know, when you look at the things that have actually happened, what the left did, when you look at the Twitter files, when you see everything, uh, again, the senator should have your ducks in a row if you're going to, on a national stage, accuse somebody of someone, because it's expected of Republicans that you have to have some semblance of credibility.

To Democrats, it's not.

So maybe this isn't an establishment.

I think the more interesting argument is the fact that Margot Cleveland seems to have asked for similar displays for Lent and Christmas and Easter, rather, and was... seemingly denied or at least ignored and so that maybe you have more of like a free exercise issue that there's disparate treatment and not denominational neutrality but yeah you're right it seems like there's some lemon era language being used in a post lemon world so I'm also curious to see, for one, how the history and tradition test is going to be defined, because it looks like we may get a circuit split and a decision post-Kennedy on how some of this plays out.

But also just a world where there are public displays of Islamic symbols and religious practices is just not something that America has traditionally had to deal with.

So it's kind of a new application, and we'll see how that plays out.

Big shocker.

The lawsuit from resident Margo Cleveland reads in part, "For too long, the city of Dearborn has been a hostile place for Christians and Jews.

Defendant Hammoud has taken this hostility to the next level, openly conveying the message that Christians and Jews are not welcome in the city and are indeed second-class citizens." The suit cites an incident last year in which Mayor Hammoud told a local pastor-

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any Muslims and anybody else? ...spent to recognize and celebrate Muslim holidays while ignoring Jewish and Christian holidays.

The suit is brought by Margo Cleveland, a reporter for the conservative publication The Federalist.

She argues that the city openly conveys that Christians and Jews are not welcome and her concerns have been ignored.

It is part of an entire picture that is showing favoritism to people of one faith and not just discrimination, but retaliation and hostility to people of another faith.