Attorneys ask U.S. Supreme Court to consider Tennessee's refugee resettlement lawsuit

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Lawyers on behalf of the state asked the high court to consider two questions:

• Whether both chambers of a state legislature, acting together, have standing to sue the federal government when the federal government commandeers state funds for a federal program; and
• Whether the federal government can force a state to pay for a federal program from which the state has withdrawn by threatening to cut all the state’s Medicaid funding.

Tennessee has argued the federal government has required states, including ones that have opted out of the refugee program, to incur costs affiliated with state services like schools and health care.

Tennessee withdrew its participation from the refugee resettlement program in 2007. Since then, refugee resettlement has continued in Tennessee, administered by Catholic Charities.
Attorneys ask U.S. Supreme Court to consider Tennessee's refugee resettlement lawsuit

Well, now we can stop pretending that religious charities are not involved in this--at the very least.

 

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Well, now we can stop pretending that religious charities are not involved in this--at the very least.

We know for certain that Catholic and Lutheran charities in Minnesota are making bank on "refugee resettlement".

 

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Well, now we can stop pretending that religious charities are not involved in this--at the very least.

We know for certain that Catholic and Lutheran charities in Minnesota are making bank on "refugee resettlement".

The "charities" get their funding via tax payers.