SCOTUS Ruling Used By Gitmo Prisoners To Justify Extra Prayers

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“Attorneys for two Guantanamo Bay detainees have cited the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision in briefs arguing for their clients’ rights to perform prayers during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Al-Jazeera America reported on the motions filed in a Washington, D.C., district court on behalf of Emad Hassan of Yemen and Ahmed Rabbani of Pakistan.

“Hobby Lobby makes clear that all persons — human and corporate, citizen and foreigner, resident and alien — enjoy the special religious free exercise protections of” the federal Religious Freedom and Restoration Act, the law at the center of the Hobby Lobby case, the lawyers wrote.”

Read more here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/guantanamo-detainees-hobby-lobby

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks breaks down this story.

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