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Salt Lake Tribune
April 24, 2018
The lawsuit — which alleges Abdi's constitutional rights to due process and equal protection were violated and he was discriminated against because of his race, religion and ethnicity — sought his removal from any watchlist that burdens or prevents him for flying or entering the United States, and sought aÃÂ ...
OneNewsNow
April 24, 2018
"Denying widely available historical preservation grants to churches simply because they are churches departs from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last ... violates the United States Constitution in this case – the Free Exercise Clause – because it discriminates against religious groups,'" Verm pointed out.
The Denver Post
April 24, 2018
This led to a response by the solicitor general of the United States to the justices of the Supreme Court that could only have been written in this era, about this ... the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that the ban violates the First Amendment's guarantee against religious discrimination.
The Hill
April 22, 2018
Samuel argues Kennedy is likely to side with Hawaii's argument that the travel ban is a clear case of unconstitutional religious discrimination. He also said it's possible that argument could pull Chief Justice John Roberts into the majority for a 6-3 ruling in favor of the state. It wouldn't be out of character forÃÂ ...
Voice of America
April 15, 2018
Editor's Note: This story is the second in a series of programs about the Supreme Court of the United States. ... The Supreme Court defines your rights if, for example, you are a racial or religious or ethnic minority and you feel as though you are being discriminated against, the Supreme Court defines howÃÂ ...
The Australian
April 12, 2018
“The decision on who can enter the United States is a matter solely for the US government. .... Her trouble entering the United States comes after the US Supreme Court last December gave the green light to President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban that targets people from six Muslim-majorityÃÂ ...
The Hill
April 12, 2018
On April 25, millions of Arabs and Muslims in the United States and abroad will turn their attention to the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments for and ... We are helping to form coalitions across racial, ethnic, national and religious lines to build safer communities and hold law enforcement and electedÃÂ ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
April 12, 2018
A teacher who lost her job at a West Knox County Christian school after getting pregnant while unwed is testing the bounds of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that said employment autonomy by religious employers trumps employment discrimination protections for employees. Tabatha Hutson isÃÂ ...
VVdailypress.com
April 3, 2018
American patriots have long understood that the Democrat Party's hostility to the United States Constitution — indeed, to constitutionalism itself — is at ... The difficulty for Stevens and other critics of the Constitution is a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2008 (District of Columbia v Heller) which affirmed that theÃÂ ...
Sun Sentinel
April 3, 2018
The Denver case appealed to the United States Supreme Court, even though the three lower court decisions were not in conflict. Usually the Supreme Court takes ... If it's based on religion, then the very basis for the separation of church (and synagogue and mosque) and state is destroyed. AdmittedlyÃÂ ...
ABA Journal
April 3, 2018
Before the U.S. Supreme Court is the third effort by President Trump to prevent immigration from several designated countries. ... ruling before there was a panel decision, upheld the preliminary injunction issued by the Maryland court, concluding that the executive order was based on religious animus.
The Atlantic
April 2, 2018
Religious leaders, tribal officials, American Indian activists, and the relatively tolerant Oregon public begged the state to drop the case—but the state's attorney general, Dave Frohnmayer, insisted on going back to the U.S. Supreme Court. At this point, without any warning, the high court rewrote the entireÃÂ ...
NorthJersey.com
March 31, 2018
The multi-state amicus brief was filed ahead of oral arguments scheduled for April 25 before the U.S. Supreme Court. “In addition to being unconstitutional and running counter to such American values as acceptance, religious tolerance, and non-discrimination, the Administration's ban on travel has doneÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 20, 2018
The United States Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in a case that pits abortion-rights advocates against religious groups ... We filed our brief because focusing on the abortion debate means missing out on the fact that a decision siding with the State of California could upendÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
March 20, 2018
The United States Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today on a California law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to disclose to patients the ... sued the state, and now, over two years later, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the abortion and contraception disclosures under theÃÂ ...
Statesman Journal
March 16, 2018
Oregon's Supreme Court suspended Judge Vance Day for three years without pay under a ruling released Thursday morning. The decision came nine months after the Marion County Circuit ... "We are evaluating an appeal to the United States Supreme Court." Day also faces a criminal trial on gun charges,ÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
March 16, 2018
The story said that the court ruled that public school in the United States "will not teach the tenets of Islam or Sharia Law." We found that this story recycles ... It is worth noting that public schools can teach about religion, according to a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. In Abington vs. Schempp, AssociateÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
March 13, 2018
Perhaps nowhere is that truer than ecommerce, where a 25-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision remains the applicable precedent, limiting states to ... artists sketched out the series of vignettes, including one titled, "Seeing the Elephant," that would tell visitors the history of the United States' westwardÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
March 13, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case with similar details on March 20 when they hear arguments in NIFLA v. Becerra. ... He researches the intersection of law, politics, and religion in the United States, and is the author of Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement.
Reason
March 5, 2018
This could result in a ruling overturning a terrible 1985 decision that makes it very difficult to bring takings cases in federal court. ... to free speech, freedom or religion, or freedom from race and sex discrimination, are not required to first "exhaust" state court remedies before bringing a case in federal court.
San Antonio Express-News
March 4, 2018
The United States has accepted more than 32,000 Iranian religious minorities under a 1989 law known as the Lautenberg Amendment that established a program to provide safe haven for Jews escaping ... The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on a legal challenge to the third version of the ban later this year.
Joplin Globe
March 4, 2018
Less than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, questions about LGBT Christians on Christian campuses remain a live wire. .... But with public opinion in the United States shifting in favor of LGBT people, Schmalzbauer says such policies could start to lose support. SurveysÃÂ ...
Journal Inquirer
March 3, 2018
As lower courts have considered challenges to gun control laws since the two Supreme Court decisions, in 2008 and 2010, “most have been upheld,” Volokh said. He teaches a seminar on firearms regulation policy as well as courses focusing on the constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religion atÃÂ ...
Christian News Network
March 3, 2018
BLADENSBURG, Md. — A ruling declaring a veterans cross memorial in Maryland to be unconstitutional will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after the ... “To give the judiciary the power to prescribe and proscribe the meaning of an unadorned, traditionally religious symbol like the Latin cross wouldÃÂ ...
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty Blog (blog)
February 23, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Sets April Date for Travel Ban Hearing ... Subsequently, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, hearing a different challenge to the third travel ban, ruled it unconstitutional on those religious liberty grounds the 9th Circuit ... You can read extended quotes from the 4th Circuit's ruling here.
The Aerogram
February 19, 2018
Indians are officially not white — that was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling 95 years ago, on Feb. 19, 1923, in the case United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. Yes, the court actually made a legal determination that Indians are not white. Bhagat Singh Thind was born in Punjab and immigrated to the UnitedÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
February 19, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court comes back from its winter break this week and plunges into a second half of the term as big as the first. ... Does a Colorado anti-discrimination law violate the First Amendment speech and religion rights of a baker who refused, on religious grounds, to make a wedding cake for aÃÂ ...
CNBC
February 15, 2018
President Donald Trump's travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled. The ban discriminates on the basis of religion, the court ruled, in another legal setback for the policy. The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the ban to go intoÃÂ ...
CNN
February 13, 2018
Washington (CNN) Conservative firebrand Antonin Scalia died two years ago Tuesday and thrust the US Supreme Court into months of tumult with only ... In a 5-4 decision in January on the dusty topic of deadlines for dual federal and state claims, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Neil Gorsuch, Scalia'sÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
On Thursday, the justices of the United States Supreme Court will huddle over a list of cases, deciding which they will deign to hear this coming term. On that list sits a .... Yishai Schwartz is a contributor to the Lawfare blog and a writer on law, the Middle East, religion and philosophy. He is a student at YaleÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
To hand down a decision on the case, justices will have to wrestle with whether the law's requirements count as government-compelled speech, and whether the pregnancy centers, many of which are faith-based, are subject to religious exemption. Supreme-Court This week, the Supreme Court will hearÃÂ ...
National Catholic Reporter
December 31, 1999
A news report from Lawrence Hurley at Reuters caught my attention this week. It began: "Members of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be struggling over how to resolve a key case recently when Justice Stephen Breyer suggested that the best course might be to put off a decision altogether." The caseÃÂ ...
Law.com
December 31, 1999
During the last two decades, U.S. Supreme Court justices have become less like traditional inquisitors during oral arguments and more like advocates for their ... Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, for instance, speaking to the lawyer defending a baker who refused on religiousÃÂ ...
CNN
December 31, 1999
That is the lowest number through the end of March for any session since Roberts took office in 2005, according to Adam Feldman, whose Empirical SCOTUS blog examines trends at the Supreme Court of the United States. The all-time high for Roberts' tenure was 32 decisions during this period, theÃÂ ...
Study Breaks
December 31, 1999
Each year, the U.S. Supreme Court decides on a handful of the cases that will be presented before it. The ones they do decide to hear have wide-reaching effects concerning the nature of constitutional rights. Here are four of the most important Supreme Court cases being decided on in 2018, and how theyÃÂ ...
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty Blog (blog)
February 23, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Sets April Date for Travel Ban Hearing ... Subsequently, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, hearing a different challenge to the third travel ban, ruled it unconstitutional on those religious liberty grounds the 9th Circuit ... You can read extended quotes from the 4th Circuit's ruling here.
Law.com
February 23, 2018
U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco filed the government's opening brief Wednesday in the U.S. Supreme Court in what may be the final battle over the Trump administration's ban on the entry into the United States of foreign nationals from predominantly Muslim nations. Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
Richmond Free Press
February 23, 2018
The 4th Circuit court upheld a ruling by a federal judge in Maryland who issued an injunction barring enforcement of the ban against people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen who have bona fide relationships with people in the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court already has agreed toÃÂ ...
Inquirer.net
February 21, 2018
Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard .... Still, Graham ended racially segregated seating at his Southern crusades in 1953, a year before the Supreme Court's school integration ruling, andÃÂ ...
NBC4 Washington
February 21, 2018
He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very ... that would firmly ban same-sex unions—an amendment that passed by a comfortable margin but later made moot by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. ... He was a mentor to several of my children, including the former president of the United States.".
Cherokee Phoenix
February 21, 2018
Plaques at the New Echota State Historic Site in Calhoun, Georgia, honor the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, the first bilingual newspaper in North America, printed in Cherokee, using Sequoyah's syllabary, and in English. The newspaper was first published 190 years ago on Feb. 21, 1828, in New Echota.
The Aerogram
February 20, 2018
Indians are officially not white — that was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling 95 years ago, on Feb. 19, 1923, in the case United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. Yes, the court actually made a legal determination that Indians are not white. Bhagat Singh Thind was born in Punjab and immigrated to the UnitedÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
February 20, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court comes back from its winter break this week and plunges into a second half of the term as big as the first. ... Microsoft warns that if the government can use a warrant to seize emails located outside the United States, foreign governments may act to seize emails inside the UnitedÃÂ ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
February 19, 2018
The 41 page report, All We Want is Equality: Religious Exemptions and Discrimination against LGBT People in the United States, examines how laws ... The Mississippi Legislature passed the measure in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the country.
CNN
February 13, 2018
Washington (CNN) Conservative firebrand Antonin Scalia died two years ago Tuesday and thrust the US Supreme Court into months of tumult with only ... In a 5-4 decision in January on the dusty topic of deadlines for dual federal and state claims, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Neil Gorsuch, Scalia'sÃÂ ...
Law.com
February 2, 2018
The topic has been thrust into public dialogue following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 and 2014 rulings in Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, respectively, which ... The first Supreme Court case on whether corporations had rights under the Constitution was decided in 1809 [Bank of the United States v.
ChristianityToday.com
January 29, 2018
They referenced the US Supreme Court's Hosanna-Tabor decision, in which all nine justices agreed that the government couldn't interfere if a religious organization wanted to fire a minister. “[T]he ministerial exception or the church autonomy doctrine, grounded in the religion clause of the First Amendment,ÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
January 28, 2018
The Supreme Court's Travel Ban Off-Ramp ... But even if justices want to go there, there are daunting obstacles to an establishment decision; indeed, the path reminds me of the 1981 video arcade game ... Imagine a proclamation by the president that “Christianity is the official religion of the United States.
Newsweek
January 25, 2018
He issued an executive order barring nationals of seven overwhelmingly Muslim countries from entering the United States, excluding refugees, and calling for ... Numerous lawsuits and two superseding versions of the original version of the Travel Ban later, the US Supreme Court may be poised to vindicateÃÂ ...
The Economist (blog)
January 24, 2018
ON JANUARY 19th, almost a year after Donald Trump issued his initial ban on travel from Muslim countries, the Supreme Court agreed to resolve a ... campaign-trail call in December 2015 for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figureÃÂ ...
