The stupid… it’s deep:

U.S. Attorneys make presence known in Murfreesboro mosque trial

Attorneys for the U. S. Department of Justice appeared in Chancery Court Friday as plaintiffs entered their sixth day of testimony in a lawsuit to stop the construction of a Murfreesboro area mosque.

U.S. Attorneys for the Middle District of Tennessee spent more than an hour with the court behind closed doors to prevent plaintiffs from sharing subpoenaed information in an ongoing arson investigation at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.

“Do you know who set this fire,” Plaintiff Attorney Joe Brandon, Jr. asked Detective Randy Groce to sustained objection. “Isn’t this fire the same tactic used in the Middle East,” Brandon asked to yet another sustained objection.

Chancellor Robert E. Corlew III took the opportunity to remind counsel not to raise the ongoing investigation again.

“Is your idea of an afterlife strapping a bomb to your chest and blowing yourself up so you can get you some virgins,” Brandon asked Detective Groce to sustained objections on relevance.

Brandon continued to indirectly address an amicus curiae filing by the federal government on Monday by asking witnesses opposed to the mosque how they feel being targeted by President Barack Obama.

“How does it make you feel that we have a President who says, ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction,’” Brandon asked several witnesses.

“It does bother me that the federal government has come here to Murfreesboro to tell us not to cross a line,” plaintiff’s witness Elizabeth Coker said on the stand.

“Are you aware the American Psychiatric Association has become Sharia compliant with regards to female genital mutilation,” Brandon asked Coker to sustained objections. The question led Chancellor Corlew to note what he called the capricious nature of Brandon’s questioning.

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Good grief, how can the judge let it continue? How can that lawyer keep his privilege to try something in court?