<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp445c1aefyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Everyone,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Here, (attached), is another piece from the OCCUPY DEMOCRATS Facebook page. It reports that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a "crushing lawsuit" against the US government. The lawsuit argues that the State Department has broken the law by freezing payments to support refugees, and that the USCCB, which is a recipient of government support with regard to several thousand refugees, is currently owed many millions of dollars for this work. The argument is that "<span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">the Trump freeze circumvents Congress's
Constitutional "power of the purse" in addition to numerous federal
laws."</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Good to see the Catholic bishops involved in this fight.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Brian</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><br></span></span></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp445c1aefsignature"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><b><i><font color="#4c76a2">Brian Halferty</font></i></b></div></div></div></div></body></html>