Though Friday’s Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Hot Takes: Watch Progressives Melt Down on Twitter Over Supreme Court Abortion Ruling) has caused a great deal of consternation among progressives, particularly those who confuse sexual license with freedom, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Bruen (Supreme Court Rules You…
In 1971, the US Supreme Court issued a decision that has broadly shaped Established Clause jurisprudence. The case is known as Lemon vs. Kurtzman. The Rhode Island and Pennsylvania legislatures had passed laws authorizing teachers’ salaries at non-public schools to be paid by the state so long as they used state-approved textbooks and instructional material….
Today provided the left with two significant opportunities to set themselves on fire (only in the most figurative and humane way, of course) and run out on Twitter screaming “Armageddon!”. The case that drew the most attention was New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Bruen. In this decision, Justice Clarence Thomas proposed the novel…
Before there was Brett Kavanaugh, there was Clarence Thomas. For those of you not old enough to remember, the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill controversy was eerily similar to the Brett Kavanaugh saga. It was almost the same story but with a different cast: a male judge is on the verge of being confirmed to the Supreme…
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“Held: Maine’s “nonsectarian” requirement for otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause.” With that sentence, a six-justice majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts mostly demolished one of the last vestiges of anti-Catholic bigotry, the Blaine Amendments, and articulated a crystal clear principle that government can’t penalize parents who prefer a…
Joe Biden hasn’t done a press interview in 120 days. He appeared on the very liberal Jimmy Kimmel’s show Wednesday night, knowing that he wouldn’t get any tough questions and hoping it would be a softball interview to help his image with the public. So Biden wore a mask alone backstage and as soon as…
