by Rachel Laser Abortion bans impose on everyone the narrow religious doctrine of a few. These bans violate the separation of church and state. Reproductive freedom and religious freedom are intertwined. When your most intimate, personal decisions are held hostage to intolerant ...
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri gave a speech last Monday explaining what he views as the biblical foundations of American government. “Without the Bible, there is no modernity,” Hawley told the National Conservatism Conference. “Without the Bible, there is no America.” “We are a ...
by Robin Abcarian Call it the Alito Fallacy. Earlier this month, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was in Rome, where he delivered a keynote speech at Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Summit. Among the anecdotes he shared: Some years ago, at a museum in Berlin, ...
by Gene Lyons Just days after declaring pregnancy a sacrament, the Supreme Court announced a bold ruling in favor of performative Christianity. Never mind this tiresome business about no establishment of religion; the holy Republican majority in their priestly robes have liberated the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is on a roll — crushing rights and smashing precedents as it goes. We understood this wave of potentially bad decisions was coming — the nation’s highest court usually saves its biggest, most controversial rulings for the end of its session. But one can only do ...
Remember when conservatives decried the pre-Trump Supreme Court as an “activist court” because it dared to — gasp! — uphold human rights? Those same conservatives are oddly quiet now that the U.S. actually does have an “activist” Supreme Court — one that has delighted in ...