{"id":118841,"date":"2017-03-31T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T19:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=118841"},"modified":"2017-04-01T17:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:14:49","slug":"sen-kills-anti-sharia-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=118841","title":{"rendered":"ND Senate kills bill to prohibit Judges applying foreign laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-67441\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ndlegchambers-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ndlegchambers-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ndlegchambers-280x175.jpg 280w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ndlegchambers.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s Senate has killed a measure that would prohibit state judges from applying foreign laws in their courtrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate defeated the bill 29-15 on Friday. The House passed it 62-30 in February.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the bill say the measure interferes with religious freedom and unfairly targets Muslims. They say it could be susceptible to a constitutional challenge.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota is among 13 states that have been considering so-called anti-Sharia bills.<\/p>\n<p>Backers of the bill say it doesn\u2019t target any religion and serves only to ensure courts follow state and federal laws.<\/p>\n<p>The North Dakota measure does not specifically name Sharia law, which is used in some parts of the Islamic world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s Senate has killed a measure that would prohibit state judges from applying foreign laws in their courtrooms. The Senate defeated the bill 29-15 on Friday. The House passed it 62-30 in February. Opponents of the bill say the measure interferes with religious freedom and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118861,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118841\/revisions\/118861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}