The decision should also support secular private schools having similar rights as well. (Public schools are under control of the state government, and lack First Amendment rights against it.)
The New York Times columnist misconstrues the issues at stake in the challenge to New York's restrictions on houses of worship.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo described his policy as a "fear-driven response," cut by a "hatchet" rather than a "scalpel."
Part of the Federalist Society's "Feddie Night Fights."
"So what?." asks David Harsanyi at the National Review, quite correctly.
The case gives SCOTUS another chance to enforce constitutional limits on disease control measures.
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When "fundamental rights are restricted" during an emergency, he says, the courts "cannot close their eyes."
The enigmatic founder of the Catholic Worker Movement was an extraordinary avatar of nonviolent dissent.
In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a key case currently before the Supreme Court, there is a strong reason to rule for the government that doesn't apply in most other religious-liberty disputes.
The members of Steve Bannon's international circle share an outlandish spiritual-historic vision, but their threat to liberty is more mundane.
His statement doesn’t change Catholic Church teachings, but it’s an indicator of big cultural shifts.
Houses of worship, which the Colorado order labels "critical" institutions, must be treated at least as well as other critical institutions.
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The court applied the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was enacted in 1993 by a nearly unanimous Congress.
The Washington Department of Child, Youth, and Families reached this decision based on the purely hypothetical possibility that maybe the 1-year-old might eventually be attracted to girls, or might want to transition to being a boy; but a federal judge just held in the great-grandparents’ favor.
The Administration claims money damages are never "appropriate" under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act - even when they are the only possible means of redressing rights violations.
The newest lockdown, which explicitly targets religious gatherings, seems likely to further skepticism of public health directives.
Occultists, social justice warriors, and techno-utopians may not look like the Christians of yore, but they're more religious than they realize.
By virtue of representing the correct vision of the good, these conservatives say, they have every right to use the coercive power of the state to interfere with others' choices.
The AG's opinion applies strict scrutiny under the First Amendment and the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and concludes that the medical evidence suggests total shutdowns aren't necessary to preserve public health.
The First Amendment protects "'anti-Israeli, anti-Zionist, [and] antisemitic" speech, the court correctly observes.
The case was filed against the Maricopa County Community College District, over Prof. Nicholas Damask's World Politics class.
The presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee offers a highly circumscribed notion of the role of faith in public life.
'Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.'
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That's what an Eleventh Circuit opinion seems to suggest, in a case where a Trinidadian Muslim plaintiff said she "come[s] from a strict Muslim household where under [their] cultural beliefs and traditions such a sexual assault would have the tendency to bring shame and humiliation upon [her] family."
The former New York Times SCOTUS reporter does not seem to understand the arguments she is criticizing.
The dissenting Justices stress that casinos and other establishments are subject to more lenient limits.
The hip-hop star's wild, disjointed presentation offers both red meat and poison for right, left, and libertarian.
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On the penultimate day of the October 2019 term, the Supreme Court expands the ministerial exception and upholds exemptions to the contraception coverage mandate.
The paper's claim reflects the same arbitrary distinction between religious and secular activities that churches are challenging in court.
SCOTUS rules 7-2 in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru.
COVID-19 control measures violate the First Amendment when they arbitrarily favor secular conduct.
The decision is an important victory against government discrimination on the basis of religion.
America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward.
