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This from Jeffrey Bronfmann regarding the UDV case - the Bush administration isn't giving up.
 
My dear friends and family,
     As many of you have probably heard about through the national news, the Department of Justice yesterday asked the United States Supreme Court to Intervene in our case; blocking a lower court order from going into effect that would allow us to resume our religious practice receiving communion through our sacramental tea.
     Justice Breyer (who received the Defendant’s request) temporarily granted a stay pending receipt of a brief from our side in response, and further consideration by the Court. The order (after five a half years of denial of our most basic freedom, and four long years of litigation at the District Court and Appeals level) was requested and  granted the day the Lower Courts Order was mandated to go into effect.
     The Attorney General, in order to receive this “emergency” intervention deceptively told the Supreme Court that allowing this order to issue would be “imperiling both domestic public health and safety as well as critical foreign relations”. There was, of course, no evidence below that supports this assertion, but they were successful (for now) in getting the Court’s attention.
      I will, of course, keep you posted on significant events as this story continues to unfold.
     In Peace,
           Jeffrey

// posted by ustaath @ 12/02/2004 08:48:00 PM