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A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit, an expert said.
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“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office
A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidat...
![Moreover, the Court agrees with Amici that granting the Motion would erode
public confidence in the finality of judgments. It would set a precedent suggesting
that a new administration could seek to vacate or otherwise nullify the voluntary
resolution of a case between a prior administration (or the same administration ,but
under different agency leadership) and a private party merely because its leadership
thought the original litigation unwise or improperly motivated. That is a Pandora’s
box the Court refuses to open.
All in all, balancing the benefits vacatur against the public interest in the
finality of judgment, the Court finds that the latter outweighs the former.
Conclusion
For the foregoing reasons, the Court denies the Parties’ Joint Rule 60(b)(6)
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