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Jun 28 2022
Headline Roundup
Has The Supreme Court Weakened The Separation Between Church and State?
Over the past few weeks, the Supreme Court has made a number of decisions that many analysts believe weakens the separation between church and state.
On Monday, the six conservatives sitting on the Supreme Court sided with a Washington high school football coach who wanted to continue praying at midfield after games — concluding that he had a constitutional right to do so. The court
Reuters CNN (Online News) The FederalistJun 27 2022
Perspectives Blog
How Polls Are Underplaying The Common Ground in the Abortion Debate
The way that the media and politicians frame the abortion debate makes it seem like Americans share little common ground on both a moral and constitutional level — but data has rebuked this idea.
The abortion debate has been at the forefront of national media and politics since last Friday when the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which decriminalized abortion
AllSides StaffSep 17 2014
News
Priests for Life: We’re not stopping our fight against birth control mandate, either
Another high-level litigant has formally rejected the Obama administration’s latest attempt to water down an Obamacare mandate that requires most group health plans to cover birth control.
Attorneys for Priests for Life, an anti-abortion ministry, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the latest tweak to the so-called contraception mandate “
Washington TimesJul 29 2019
News
Section 230 Is the Internet's First Amendment. Now Both Republicans and Democrats Want To Take It Away.
Imagine, for a moment, the following series of online exchanges. This isn't a real conversation. But it's the sort of chaotic, revealing, and messy back and forth that could spread across the internet on any given day in 2019:
A nonprofit immigrant rights group creates and publishes a Facebook invite for an upcoming event: a rally calling on city cops to stop carrying out sex stings at
ReasonFeb 07 2017
Opinion
What Is the Democratic Party?
‘Voting against their own interests’ The popular progressive understanding of the Republican party and conservative movement is something like this: It is, at heart, a conspiracy of corporate oligarchs who use a collection of so-called social issues — religion, bigotry, racial resentment, anti-immigrant sentiment — to stir up the rubes in support of its own parochial economic agenda, tricking
National Review (News)Mar 17 2020
Background
Abortion in American History
Of all the issues roiling the ongoing culture wars, abortion is both the most intimate and the most common. Almost half of American women have terminated at least one pregnancy, and millions more Americans of both sexes have helped them, as partners, parents, health-care workers, counselors, friends. Collectively, it would seem, Americans have quite a bit of knowledge and experience of
The AtlanticOct 07 2020
News
WaPo Roasted Over ‘Dud of a Hit Piece’ on ACB’s Faith
The Washington Post joined other media outlets in publishing a hit piece on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s faith, particularly over her involvement in the group People of Praise. But in reality, they are pathetically weak smears that were rightfully called out by many conservatives on Twitter.
“Amy Coney Barrett served as a ‘handmaid’ in Christian group People of Praise,’ three WaPo
TownhallFeb 05 2015
News
Obama Calls ISIS a ‘Vicious Death Cult’ at National Prayer Breakfast
President Barack Obama called the militant group Islamic State a “brutal, vicious death cult” in one of his strongest condemnations to date of the group.
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Mr. Obama praised the ability of religion to lift people up and inspire good deeds, and condemned what he said was a distortion of faith by groups like Islamic
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 10 2019
News
Trump to Sign Order Targeting Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Wednesday targeting what he sees as anti-Semitism on college campuses by threatening to withhold federal money from educational institutions that fail to combat discrimination, three administration officials said on Tuesday.
The order will effectively interpret Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, to trigger a
New York Times (News)Dec 09 2014
News
Justice Department broadens ban on racial profiling
The Justice Department on Monday issued new guidelines to federal law enforcement officers that will regulate their use of racial profiling in investigations, an update to a policy first put in place in 2003 by then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft.
The policy is intended to eliminate discrimination without hindering federal inquiries and law enforcement. The old guidelines banned profiling
Los Angeles Times