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  • 2019-01-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Did the U.S. Supreme Court Rule That Oaths Not Taken on the Bible Are 'Illegal'? (en)
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  • In January 2019, a notorious producer of junk news prompted uncertainty among some readers with an article that claimed the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that only oaths sworn on the Bible were lawful. On 6 January, America's Last Line of Defense (LLOD) posted an article with the headline Supreme Court Rules 5-4: Oaths Not Taken on Bibles Illegal: The story was later republished on the website USA2019.news. Like everything published by LLOD, the story was a complete fabrication. The order list of the U.S. Supreme Court contained no mention of any case resembling the fictional one described in the article. Furthermore, certain words in the post contained links that underlined the apparently humorous intent behind it. The phrase mythical texts linked to a photograph of a bible (subverting the substance of the fabricated court ruling), and Mike Pence linked to a Google search for the word douchebag. The article came amid controversy among some conservative observers about the decisions by recently-elected Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to hold copies of the Quran during their swearing-in ceremonies in January 2019. Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema also departed from convention when she held a copy of the U.S. Constitution, rather than a religious text, during her swearing-in ceremony. LLOD is one of several sites and Facebook pages operated as part of a network of outlets that publish political misinformation under the guise of satire. (en)
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