Judicial Tyranny

Supreme Court Tells Maine to Stop Religiously Discriminating. Maine Gets Creative, Does It Anyway.

04/06/2023 at 4:00 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Sarah Parshall Perry, DailySignal, April 5, 2023 Last term, in Carson v. Makin, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Maine could not prevent parents from using otherwise generally available state school choice funds at religious schools simply because those schools... read more

Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election could determine future of state abortion ban

03/31/2023 at 8:30 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency, March 31, 2023 The 2023 Wisconsin judicial race, which might have remained obscure in other years even within Wisconsin, is garnering national media attention and record fundraising numbers for the candidates.  Here’s what you need to know... read more

Judge Blocks Biden Admin From Firing Unvaccinated Employees With Pending Religious Exemptions

10/29/2021 at 3:34 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Jack Phillip, Epoch Times, October 29, 2021 A district court judge in Washington, D.C. issued a temporary injunction Thursday that bars both civilian and military plaintiffs from being fired after they filed a lawsuit against the White House’s vaccine mandate. District Judge Colleen... read more

Presbyterian Pastor Defends Supporting Abortion: I’m Just “Following God’s Call on Our Lives”

10/22/2021 at 11:48 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews, October 22, 2021 A Texas Presbyterian pastor defended her work advocating for abortions this week, saying she is just “following God’s call on our lives.” In an interview with Elle magazine, the Rev. Angela Williams said she opposes the Texas heartbeat law... read more

Aborting a Presidency

01/07/2020 at 4:31 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY KEVIN BURKE, JANUARY 7, 2020 Author and political scientist Darrell West is deeply concerned about the current climate in the United States. “Societal tensions have metastasized into a dangerous tribalism that seriously threatens U.S. democracy,” he warns. “Unless people can bridge... read more

When Politics Reshapes the Culture

07/20/2019 at 5:00 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Hadley Arkes, July 16, 2019 The scene: Outside the Supreme Court of the U.S. in March 2014.  I was on my way to the Court to take in the oral argument in the Hobby Lobby case. The question was whether the Green family, owners of the Hobby Lobby stores – and providing already... read more

UK judge forcing mentally disabled mother to have abortion against her will

06/22/2019 at 4:47 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
by Ryan Everson, Washington Examiner, June 21, 2019 A judge in the United Kingdom ruled that a mentally disabled pregnant mother must abort her baby because doctors have arbitrarily decided an abortion would be less traumatic for her than childbirth. At 22 weeks gestation, this baby can feel... read more
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SCOTUS Sends Gay-Wedding-Cake Case Back to State Court

06/17/2019 at 10:20 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Jack Crowe, National Review, June 17, 2019 The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case involving an Oregon baker who refused to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding, sending the dispute back to a state court and foregoing an opportunity to clarify its position on the matter after... read more

Secular Arguments for Marriage Are Not Enough

07/13/2018 at 6:26 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Jennifer Roback Morse, July 11, 2018 Scott Hahn is a prolific Biblical scholar with a huge fan-base among orthodox Catholics. He doesn’t need my help promoting his new book, The First Society: The Sacrament of Matrimony and the Restoration of Social Order. But I need some help from him. I... read more

Does Conscience Exist?

06/28/2018 at 5:23 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By David Carlin, June 15, 2018 A few days ago the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling in the case of a Colorado baker who had refused, for reasons of religious conscience, to bake a wedding cake for the same-sex wedding of two men. Unfortunately, the Court ruling did not address the question of... read more

Title VII and the Next Big Threat to Religious Freedom

06/28/2018 at 2:33 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
The Supreme Court will have to weigh in By John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera, Breakpoint, So what’s the next big judicial challenge to religious freedom? You may not be hearing much about it, but I’ll describe why it matters. The Supreme Court victories in the Masterpiece Cakeshop... read more

A Powerful Legal Group Changes the Law While Nobody’s Looking

05/18/2018 at 3:16 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

ACLU Tries To Drag Catholic Charities Into Illegal Immigrant Abortions

04/13/2018 at 9:18 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

“To Make It So That the Church Could Not Exist in This State”

03/15/2018 at 4:02 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Jordan Peterson is a prophet—and a problem for progressives

01/31/2018 at 8:06 PM By Kevin Edward White

How Judges Become Tyrants

01/23/2018 at 8:32 PM By Kevin Edward White

Judge Overturns Trump Repeal of Obamacare Mandate, Forces Christians to Pay for Abortions

12/15/2017 at 9:18 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Roe v. Wade’s ‘Terrible Reach’ Strikes Down Indiana Abortion Restrictions

10/06/2017 at 10:49 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

20 state Attorneys General tell Supreme Court to release videos exposing Planned Parenthood

09/08/2017 at 7:30 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Why This Judge’s Ruling Won’t Block Federal Action on Sanctuary Cities

04/27/2017 at 10:21 AM By Mary Anne Hackett