James Henderson Law Office
Attorney and Counselor at Law
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When it comes to court, no case is insignificant. Not when your interests are at stake. Not when you are injured or wronged and seeking to be made whole. Not when you are wrongly accused and seeking to present your defense. In every case, the parties know that important things are at stake: sometimes money and economic well-being, sometimes liberty and the possible loss of it after conviction, sometimes reputation and how you are perceived by friends and neighbors, co-workers, those with whom you attend church. In every case, you know that you have much at risk. You need an attorney with a demonstrated record of careful representation, consideration, and care, and with a track record of success.
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Let My People Go: Unleashing the Church by Unmuzzling the Pulpit
Wherein we learn that some folks have nothing to fear but liberty itself.
In an episode of the old “Star Trek” television series, Captain Kirk and two of his officers are kidnapped during transport and made to serve as slaves/thralls on the planet of Triskelion. Those who are familiar with Captain Kirk’s embodiment of the American ideal of liberty will realize the collision that had to occur between his fierce independence and the demands of servitude, particularly when that servitude was enforced with a restraining collar that was used to temporarily (or permanently) asphyxiate the sullen or disobedient thrall.
But the use of the collar as a means of restraining independence was already a decade old in America when “The Gamesters of Triskelion,” was beamed into American homes in 1968. But instead of a Triskelionian collar serving to constrain belligerence, the strictures of obedience to which I refer were accomplished by threatening the tax-exempt status of churches for the political expression of their “collared” clergy. And it is that constraint and enslavement that are squarely targeted by the Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act.
Fascist Pillars of the Supreme Court
Sometimes the odd pairing of symbol and substance cannot be winked--in the case of the Supreme Court what you do not know may well hurt you.
The United States Supreme Court has been in its own home just some seventy-five years. When the Union was formed, the Justices of the Supreme Court had no quarters at all, except such as each provided for himself. The entourage of clerks (each justice now may have as many as four) was unknown. The Clerk of the Supreme Court was not paid a salary and he derived his income solely from the receipt of filing fees. Justices were required, together with local federal trial judges, to ride circuits in the newly formed federation, and were subjected to all the discomforts with which the common man was acquainted in travel.
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