{"id":27072,"date":"2011-10-18T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T12:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27072"},"modified":"2011-10-18T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T12:17:15","slug":"supreme-court-to-take-up-stolen-valor-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27072","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to take up Stolen Valor Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a hundred of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/18\/us\/justices-take-case-on-lying-about-honors-from-military.html?_r=1\">you guys sent me a link<\/a> to the article that announces that the Supreme Court is taking up the Stolen Valor Act, so I guess you want to discuss it;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The case arose from the prosecution of Xavier Alvarez under a 2005 law, the Stolen Valor Act. Mr. Alvarez, an elected member of the board of directors of a water district in Southern California, described his background at a public meeting in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a retired Marine of 25 years,\u201d he said. \u201cI retired in the year 2001. Back in 1987, I was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. I got wounded many times by the same guy.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone who sent the link thinks this is a good sign that the USSC is taking the case. I don&#8217;t. I&#8217;m pretty sure we&#8217;re going to see the stupidest shit that ever came out of the Supreme Court. They&#8217;re all going to throw us under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside, TAH will have an eye witness report to the arguments and the American Legion is filing an amicus brief in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a hundred of you guys sent me a link to the article that announces that &hellip; <a title=\"Supreme Court to take up Stolen Valor Act\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27072\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court to take up Stolen Valor Act<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}