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A better SQ 755? "American Laws for American Courts"

NewsRealBlog has a piece by David Yerushalmi titled "4 Rebuttals to Critics of Oklahoma's Anti-Sharia Law," a defense of the thinking behind the constitutional amendment adopted by an overwhelming majority of Oklahoma voters on November 2 as State Question 755. Yerushalmi says that SQ 755 was poorly drafted (and explains...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 30, 2010 11:25 PM

CAIR's sharia lawsuit and Miles-LaGrange's injunction

Federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange, a Clinton appointee to the Western District of Oklahoma and former Democrat legislator from Oklahoma City, blocked the Oklahoma State Election Board from certifying the landslide passage of SQ 755. SQ 755 forbids Oklahoma courts from looking to "the legal precepts of other nations or cultures....

Posted by Michael Bates on November 11, 2010 1:29 AM

YES on SQ 755: A closer look

NOTE: This is what I get for writing at 2 a.m.; I wrote no when I meant YES -- as in vote YES on SQ 755. Thanks to the observant reader who caught it. Oklahoma State Question 755 is another fine example of a proposed constitutional amendment that Ayatollah General...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 29, 2010 12:13 AM