{"id":20543,"date":"2018-10-31T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20543"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:22:19","slug":"church-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20543","title":{"rendered":"Church of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States<\/a> has just gone through its most contentious Supreme Court nomination in decades.<\/p>\n

The US watched as Brett Kavanaugh<\/a> ascended to the highest court in the country, despite a serious allegation of sexual assault from his high school days.<\/p>\n

As the Senate reviewed his nomination, protesters took to the streets, and the events once again broke open the country’s political and cultural divides.<\/p>\n

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They build momentum very intentionally towards this goal of making the US a Christian nation and imposing their world view, which is this political, discriminatory world view on the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Rachel Laser, executive director, Americans United<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

One group had backed Kavanaugh’s nomination from the beginning: The religious right in the US, which is a strategic, highly organised minority that has found itself more powerful than ever under President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his first two years in office, Trump has electrified this segment of the Republican base by advancing the movement’s opposition to abortion<\/a> and LGBTQ<\/a> rights.<\/p>\n

President Trump has appointed more judges on federal appeals courts than any of his recent predecessors.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the Supreme Court confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh, the US’ so-called “values voters” are heading to the midterm election polls with the wind in their sails – and a sophisticated legislative and judicial ground-game to build on their momentum.<\/p>\n

Fault Lines<\/em> goes inside the US religious right to explore the grassroots strategy and the powerful institutions fuelling its resurgence – revealing the movement’s secretive state-level legislative strategy, known as Project Blitz, as well as the Republican party’s plan to stack the federal judiciary with conservative judges.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Fault Lines<\/em> explores what’s driving this movement’s support for President Trump and what their success could mean for the future of the country.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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