
Subverting the Supreme Court
COMMENTARY: Hardline secularists are confident that, one way or another, they can outmaneuver the highest court in the land.
COMMENTARY: Hardline secularists are confident that, one way or another, they can outmaneuver the highest court in the land.
COMMENTARY: In ‘Mere Natural Law,’ the Catholic convert addresses what has touched off a roiling debate within the conservative legal movement.
COMMENTARY: ‘Teen Vogue’ magazine’s analysis of Lorie Smith’s case is the latest example.
The court’s 7-2 ruling blocks a lower court order that would have taken the drug mifepristone off the market as the court considers a lawsuit over whether the drug was validly approved.
The extended pause will last for two more days and expire at 11:59pm Friday, April 21. Alito’s extension means that for the time being mifepristone continues to remain legal and approved for use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next Tuesday, April 18, in Groff v. Dejoy, a case that has major implications for religious-liberty rights in the U.S.
COMMENTARY: This is an attempt to colonize our language, and it must be resisted.
Some religious plaintiffs are winning, but often on narrow grounds.
In today’s oral argument, members of the court’s conservative majority seemed sympathetic to legal arguments that Lorie Smith should not be compelled to undertake actions that violate her core beliefs.
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