Lawsuit Claims President Trump "Is Misleading People, Deceiving Them to Sin, and Dooming Them to Hell"

From Kelly v. Trump, decided Monday by Patricia W. Griffin, Master in Chancery, Delaware Court of Chancery:

Kelly's main theory of her case is that Trump creates the illusion of being a devout Christian, while engaging in acts that Kelly contends are against the main tenets of Christianity. She claims that his actions substantially burden and injure her "free exercise of religion" causing her "eternal harm" and "chilling [her] free exercise of religion by [his] increased threat of government sponsored religious persecution and, or the actual government sponsored persecution for [her] attempts to freely exercise [her] religion."

Kelly alleges that, through Trump's deception, he is misleading people, deceiving them to sin, and dooming them to hell. The primary harm Kelly claims is that, because Trump is leading people to hell, Kelly will not be able to love them for eternity. She also alleges that she is persecuted, and her religious belief chilled, because of Trump's support for one religious belief, and suppression of others, which substantially burdens her freedom to exercise her faith.

Three guesses about how the court resolves the case ….

Note also this:

Her claim that she will suffer eternal harm by her inability to have relationships with people if Trump's actions cause people (including acquaintances/friends she mentions in her complaint) to go to hell is not a sufficiently concrete injury. It is impossible for this Court to determine what happens to people after they die and under what circumstances a person goes to hell. That determination is appropriately left to a higher power.

Comments

[DaivdBehar]

You teach law students minds can be read, the future can be foreseen, and that the standard of conduct should be set by a fictitious character. Those are supernatural doctrine from the Catechism of the 13 th Century.

[Dan Schiavetta]

One has seen this type of argument on the right for years. It is central to the Catholic Church's case against gay marriage. Odd to see someone argue it from the opposite direction.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

There is no kook quite like the religious kook.

[Doug Huffman]

Yeah, but deplorably we have guns too.

[Henry]

"Her claim that she will suffer eternal harm by her inability to have relationships with people"
Good news for those without the strength of will to resist sticking it in crazy.

[Kazinski]

She is right Trump has led me too sin, if I can just find a porn star in my budget, with all the original equipment of course.

[AtR]

You can't make this stuff up ...

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Make it up is everything religious claimants do.

[Jerry B.]

"Three guesses about how the court resolves the case..."

Well, if it had been the 9th Circuit...

[Beldar]

This complaint will of course be dismissed.

But Donald Trump should be very, very happy that the antifraud provisions of section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and SEC Rule 10b-5, don't apply to his campaign statements. Indeed, if you look at Trump's business career, it's abundantly clear that he has done his best, generally with success, to avoid ever becoming subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 or the antifraud requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: In the environment within which public-company CEOs operate, he would have found himself in prison.

[Beldar]

Whoops, I should have written, "was properly dismissed."