H.R.2679 To Prohibit Lawyer Fees in ACLU Cases ... And, sometimes, there's a ray of sunshine. This could actually work.

From Jay, at StopTheACLU:

Rees Lloyd made the comments in an online podcast hosted by Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., in which the two discuss the congressman’s legislation, the Public Expression of Religion Act, or PERA (H.R.2679). The bill would prohibit judges in civil suits involving the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause from awarding attorney’s fees to those offended by religious symbols or actions in the public square – such as a Ten Commandments display in a courthouse or a cross on a county seal...

...As WorldNetDaily reported, Hostettler’s proposal would amend the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. Section 1988, to prohibit prevailing parties from being awarded attorney’s fee in religious establishment cases, but not in other civil rights filings. This would prevent local governments from having to use taxpayer funds to pay the ACLU or similar organization when a case is lost, and also would protect elected officials from having to pay fees from their own pockets.

In the podcast, Lloyd decried the “terrorizing litigation tactics of the ACLU.”

Said Lloyd: “Not only can the ACLU brings these suits and compel taxpayers to pay them to destroy the public display of our American history and heritage, but so can Islamist terrorists or Islamist sympathizers in our midst.

I agree. Big time.

To sign the on-line petition in support of the bill, click to StopTaxpayerFundingofTheACLU.

The trial lawyers lobby is very powerful -- but then, so are we. Again, that's HR2679, and it's a start.

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