Three Liberty University students take their case to the United States Supreme Court to challenge being denied generally available tuition grants.
I observed in a recent blog that the Supreme Court has begun to chide the lower courts for continuing to apply the Court’s own precedents that it has not yet formally overruled when later decisions of the Court cast doubt on their continuing viability. In particular, the Court in its 2022 decision Kennedy v. Bremerton School District criticized the
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The 2021-22 Supreme Court term will be hard to beat, with four pro-religious freedom rulings, including the very important Kennedy decision, and the blockbuster overruling of Roe and Casey. That doesn’t mean that things won’t be happening on these fronts this coming term, but, as of now, the docket is not as full as last
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When a high school football coach was fired for praying with his football players he took his case to court. His freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly were on the line.
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Pro-life Cases The “big hitter” for this upcoming term is in the pro-life area: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Instead of nibbling around the edges of Roe and Casey, as the abortion cases in the Court for the last several decades have done, Dobbs goes for the heart, with Mississippi arguing that the viability
One of the National Legal Foundation’s key projects keeps making news. It is a package of model bills and resolutions that the NLF and others have put together for the use of state legislators. The packet is distributed by the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation as part of its “Project Blitz.”
Project Blitz Generates Support and Opposition Read More