Chief Justice Roberts has been the center of attention recently, whipsawing both liberals and conservatives with his various opinions. He sided with Justice Gorsuch and the four “liberals” on the bench in ruling that “sex” in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act includes “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” and he wrote a somewhat baffling
The Supreme Court in Bostock v. Comstock County and two linked cases decided that, when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed employment discrimination on the basis of “sex,” it included discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Now, Justice Gorsuch, writing for the majority, freely admitted that the legislators in 1964 didn’t have
The Supreme Court has accepted a case, Fulton v. Philadelphia, that presents the question, among others, of whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Employment Division v. Smith, issued in 1990, should be overruled. Smith held that, when a person challenges application of a law of general applicability on the ground that it restricts the person’s
NLF in its amicus brief in the Supreme Court points out a methodological flaw in the “undue burden” analysis in recent abortion cases.
A state may not refuse tax credits for contributions solely because some resulting scholarships go to religious schools.
The ministerial exception covers more than just churches and schools.
Justice Thomas in two concurrences to denial of cert excoriates the Court’s abortion case law.
Project Blitz is attacked with ad hominem, rather than reason.
Abortion is not properly upheld as providing equal rights for women.
Carrying a child to term is not “involuntary servitude under the Thirteenth Amendment