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garzooma6/04/2020 6:07:30 pm PDT

Saw this in Mother Jones:

White House Security Blocks Washington’s Episcopalian Bishop from Holding a Vigil at Her Church

On Wednesday, Trump-authorized federal police closed off a portion of 16th Street just north of the church, about a block from the White House, which kept clergy from being able to use their house of worship.

Bishop Mariann Budde, who had assailed Trump’s Monday visit as a “symbolic misuse of the most sacred texts of our tradition,” planned to hold a vigil in front of the church to show solidarity with protesters. But a new security perimeter, extending almost a quarter of a mile out from the front of the White House, blocked her access and forced her into the street.

So besides assaulting one of the Episcopal Church’s priests, Trump is effectively confiscating church property — usurping it for his own use but denying them usage.