{"id":900,"date":"2016-07-01T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=900"},"modified":"2016-07-01T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:55:39","slug":"the-unraveling-of-the-constitution-in-one-scotus-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/07\/the-unraveling-of-the-constitution-in-one-scotus-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"The unraveling of the Constitution in one SCOTUS decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 548px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/168015456\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 57.116788% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/168015456?et=Gk9CCgkHQo1pzXr8KP3tOw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=x_i-3WUwPk0Ip3j_dgUqV5e6FvSq1y_gNSRJAMxWY1U=\" width=\"548\" height=\"313\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new video featuring Bill Whittle, Steven Green, and Scott Ott takes apart the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/06\/scotus-decision-threatens-self-governance-and-the-unborn\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">recent Supreme Court strike down<\/a> of a Texas law that sought to make abortion clinics follow the same standards as true medical facilities and explores if this one decision could lead to the death of our constitutional republic.<\/p>\n<p>Please watch this video and consider if Ott is correct in his assessment that SCOTUS \u201chas set a disastrous precedent that will haunt us forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yNI8ttl1kfo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one decision by SCOTUS may have just set in motion the destruction of our constitutional republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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