SCOTUS
How the pro-religion court rulings may end up hurting conservative Christianity
By Steven Waldman — July 19, 2023
(RNS) — These victories will lead to all sorts of activists making religious liberty claims to advance their goals, and they won’t always be conservative.
Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Columbia Law School Law, Rights, and Religion Project
By Jonathan Woodward — July 17, 2023
Reviewing the latest pro-discrimination SCOTUS ruling in 303 Creative v. Elenis, with Columbia Law School's Law, Rights, and Religion Project Executive Director Elizabeth Reiner Platt
With overturning of affirmative action, Asian Americans became political pawns. Again.
By Jessica Wai-Fong Wong — July 12, 2023
(RNS) — In the wake of the racial reckoning of 2020, Asian Americans are being used, once again, to undermine Black political demands for change.
A business can decline service based on its beliefs, Supreme Court rules – but what will this look like in practice?
By Charles J. Russo — July 12, 2023
(The Conversation) — A designer opposed to same-sex marriage argued that a Colorado anti-discrimination law would effectively force her to speak against her beliefs.
How the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is making new rules for minorities
By Thomas Reese — July 3, 2023
(RNS) — If the Constitution is what five Supreme Court justices say it is, who controls the presidency and the Senate really matters.
Bishops need to acknowledge collateral damage from Dobbs win
By Thomas Reese — November 11, 2022
(RNS) — To the extent that the bishops helped the Republicans gain power, they must accept responsibility for what the Republicans did with that power.
Religion plays a role in Native American adoption case before Supreme Court
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 9, 2022
(RNS) — Legal activists argue that Brackeen v. Haaland could inhibit Native American children’s contact with their religious traditions while extending a long history of white Christian efforts to convert Native children and remove them from their homes and families.
While clean water isn’t a partisan issue, it is a faith issue
By Cassandra Carmichael — October 21, 2022
(RNS) — Protecting clean water is a moral call. The removal of clean water protections for wetlands, such as the Supreme Court is considering, leaves too much to chance.
Texas executes inmate who fought prayer, touch rules
By Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk — October 5, 2022
(RNS) — John Henry Ramirez challenged state prison rules that prevented his pastor from touching him and praying aloud during his execution, saying his religious freedom was being violated.
The Hasidic educational standard should meet the old Amish one
By Mark Silk — September 30, 2022
(RNS) — Rather than the current Supreme Court's.
Now more than ever: Let’s get the Equal Rights Amendment finalized
By Ani Zonneveld, Lisa Sharon Harper, Mary E. Hunt, Valarie Kaur, Sharon Brous, and Allyson McKinney Timm — August 26, 2022
(RNS) — As women of faith, we are committed to the common task of making the ERA the law of the land.
In ruling for the praying football coach, what did the Supreme Court really say?
By Thomas Reese — August 10, 2022
(RNS) — Does the decision protect private, personal prayer, or is it the camel’s nose for more prayer in schools?
There’s no ignoring the Supreme Court’s motivations in ruling against the EPA
By Susan Hendershot — July 1, 2022
(RNS) — SCOTUS is showing a blatant disregard not only for those it supposedly serves, but also for God’s beautiful creation.
Anti-Roe justices a part of Catholicism’s conservative wing
By Peter Smith — July 1, 2022
The Supreme Court was dominated by Protestant justices for much of its history. The majority have been Catholic since the 1990s, and for several years in the last decade, the court had six Catholic justices, three Jews and no Protestants.
My pro-life mom worked at Planned Parenthood — her legacy shapes my pro-choice hope
By Erin S. Lane — June 30, 2022
(RNS) — She told me of the consequences of a life that happens to you and not with you.
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