{"id":5168,"date":"2022-05-01T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2022-05-01T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T21:02:59","slug":"bar-association-threatens-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5168","title":{"rendered":"Bar association threatens freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"1ko9k-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"1ko9k-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1ko9k-0-0\">A conservative judge running for a seat on the Illinois Supreme Court says the state bar association has threatened him with a \u201cNot Recommended\u201d rating if he doesn\u2019t fill out its \u201cpolitical\u201d questionnaire on diversity and LGBT issues.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"2l86v-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"2l86v-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2l86v-0-0\">These questions are intrusive, divisive, and racist. Would you answer these? I reject the very premises of the questions and would file them in the garbage can. &#8220;Inclusion&#8221; is not important. In fact, &#8220;inclusion&#8221; violates freedom of association.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"bs29a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"bs29a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bs29a-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"ajmmg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"ajmmg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ajmmg-0-0\">If these various types of &#8220;people&#8221; aren&#8217;t included it&#8217;s for good reason. Either they want to be left alone, like most normal people, or they are moral reprobates who should be excluded, if not jailed, for their deviant crimes (looking at you, LGBTPxyzwtf crowd).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"3u3ba-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3u3ba-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3u3ba-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"6hfhr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"6hfhr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6hfhr-0-0\">I used to think that bar associations were groups of professionals\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"eqbvn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"eqbvn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"eqbvn-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"5e0t9-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"5e0t9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5e0t9-0-0\">\u2022 \u201cHow important is it to you to have inclusion from people of a different race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, or sexual orientation than you as a lawyer and\/or judge in the legal profession?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"algh-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"algh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"algh-0-0\">\u2022 \u201cWhat efforts, if any, have you made in your community to include people of a different race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, or sexual orientation than you as a lawyer and\/or judge in the legal profession?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"dkuds-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"dkuds-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dkuds-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2fp8\" data-offset-key=\"60j57-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"60j57-0-0\"><span class=\"ig9Cs\" data-offset-key=\"60j57-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"60j57-0-0\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/may\/1\/bar-association-threatens-judge-not-recommended-ra\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bar association threatens judge with &#8216;Not Recommended&#8217; rating over political questionnaire<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative judge running for a seat on the Illinois Supreme Court says the state bar association has threatened him with a \u201cNot Recommended\u201d rating if he doesn\u2019t fill out its \u201cpolitical\u201d questionnaire on diversity and LGBT issues. These questions are intrusive, divisive, and racist. Would you answer these? I reject the very premises of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bar association threatens freedom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,75,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution-men-in-black","category-enemies-of-the-constitution","category-liberals","category-freedom-of-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}