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10:18 AM: bit by bit
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as if the torture vote & the continued threat of anti-abortion legislation wasn't bad enough, one of the other pending bills to review when congress returns from recess is one that discourages lawsuits challenging the separation of church & state: even if argued successfully, lawyers are not allowed to recover attorney's fees, unlike other civil rights cases. what?! "Since [the religious right] cannot change the law of the Establishment Clause by statute, they have turned their attention to trying to prevent its enforcement by eliminating the possibility for recovery of attorneys' fees."