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Click here to view original article floridapolitics.com These are complex cases, and the IGC debate will help the public to understand them. Once again, religious liberty is before the United States Supreme Court. To make sense of upcoming cases and the issues they involve, the Institute for Governance and Civics…
Click here to view original article www.kvue.com SB 10 would require the Ten Commandments to be posted in all classrooms. SB 11 would require school boards to vote on allowing designated prayer time. AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate debated a pair of bills on Tuesday that would bring aspects…
Click here to view original article www.alreporter.com Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall listens to a reporter’s question following oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, an Alabama redistricting case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the United States, outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington,…
Click here to view original article news.google.com Description: The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit seeking to strike down the National Day of Prayer. 7th Circuit rejects lawsuit against National Day of Prayer ADF filed friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of National Day of Prayer Task Force CHICAGO — The…
Click here to view original article www.dailypress.net Editor’s note: The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. The Conversation is wholly responsible for the content. Today’s piece is by Preston Green III, University of Connecticut and Suzanne Eckes, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (THE…
Click here to view original article becketfund.org WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice, 19 states, prominent legal scholars, and diverse faith groups representing over 90 million Americans yesterday submitted friend-of-the-court briefs asking the Supreme Court to confirm that Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior’s care for the…
Click here to view original article natlawreview.com Religious Bias Suit in COVID Vaccine Mandate Case On January 7, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed and remanded a district court’s dismissal of a plaintiff’s Title VII religious bias suit—holding the case was sufficient to survive a…
Click here to view original article www.twincities.com Although I can’t cite a scientific survey to prove it, I have detected a recent upswing in conflicts over religion in public schools. Just as I was beginning to believe that most schools were finally getting religion right, it appears that the trend…
Click here to view original article religionunplugged.com (ANALYSIS) The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore: An online Roman Catholic charter school named after the patron saint of the internet . If affirmed, the school would be the nation’s first faith-based charter — a sea…
Click here to view original article www.upi.com 1 of 2 | President Donald Trump waves as he departs the Oval Office, boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Earlier he signed an executive order crating a faith office. Photo by Anna Rose Layden/UPI |…
Click here to view original article baptistnews.com The recent lawsuit filed by Quaker groups against the federal government highlights an issue on which conservatives seem increasingly prone to waffle: the sanctity of religious freedom and the protection of churches from government overreach . Conservatives often advocate for robust enforcement of…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com U.S. Supreme Court. | Credit: PT Hamilton/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 4, 2025 / 14:25 pm A diverse coalition of religious groups and the Department of Justice are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of a Catholic charity group in a…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com If approved, St. Isidore’s would be the first religious charter school. (Jonathan Kirn/The Image Bank via Getty Images) (The Conversation) — The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore: an online Roman Catholic charter school named after the…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com If approved, St. Isidore’s would be the first religious charter school. (Jonathan Kirn/The Image Bank via Getty Images) (The Conversation) — The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore: an online Roman Catholic charter school named after the…
Click here to view original article www.foxnews.com Attorney for religious charter school ‘hopeful’ in case to be heard before the court Alliance Defending Freedom Chief Counsel Jim Campbell says he’s ‘hopeful’ the Supreme Court ‘will make it clear that people of faith deserve to be a part of the charter…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore, an online Roman Catholic charter school named after the patron saint of the Internet. Photo by Julia M Cameron/Pexels Jan. 31 (UPI) — Can a charter school be religious? The…
Click here to view original article theconversation.com The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore: an online Roman Catholic charter school named after the patron saint of the internet . If affirmed, the school would be the nation’s first faith-based charter – a sea change…
Click here to view original article www.upi.com The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore, an online Roman Catholic charter school named after the patron saint of the Internet. Photo by Julia M Cameron/Pexels Jan. 31 (UPI) — Can a charter school be religious? The…
Click here to view original article floridapolitics.com Justice Amy Coney Barrett is not taking part in the case, but did not explain why. The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open…
Click here to view original article www.deseret.com A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. Asma T. Uddin is an attorney and the author of “When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. | John Bazemore A federal appeals court case about displaying the Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools is…
Click here to view original article news.google.com FILE – The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The conservative-dominated high court has issued several decisions in recent years signaling a willingness to allow public funds to flow to religious entities. Mark Sherman January 27, 2025 Loading your audio article WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday…
Click here to view original article www.wcvb.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. Related video above: Can birthright citizenship be repealed? Breaking down Trump’s…
Click here to view original article www.oklahoman.com The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a legal case that could lead to the establishment of the nation’s first religious online charter school, based in Oklahoma. The court on Friday consolidated two petitions that had been filed, one by the Statewide…