Judiciary, faithful

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

Clarence Thomas Delivers a Message to Roe v. Wade Leaker

05/07/2022 at 10:11 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Tom Ozimek, Epoch Times, May 7, 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday defended judicial independence, arguing that government institutions mustn’t allow themselves to be strong-armed into delivering outcomes that people demand, according to news outlets. Thomas... read more

Chief Justice John Roberts Confirms Draft Overturning Roe is Real, Will Launch Investigation

05/03/2022 at 7:09 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Steven Ertelt, LifeSite News, May 3, 2022 Chief Justice John Roberts has issued a statement confirming the leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe is genuine and he says the nation’s highest court will launch an internal investigation about the leak. As LifeNews... read more

SCOTUS clarifies Justice Clarence Thomas was not hospitalized with COVID

03/21/2022 at 9:52 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Chris Pandolfo, The Blaze, March 21, 2022 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized Friday with "flu-like symptoms" but is expected to be released soon, the court said in a statement on Sunday. Thomas, 73, was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., the... read more

Supreme Court takes up former football coach’s firing for praying on field

01/20/2022 at 1:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Carol Zimmermann, Our Sunday Visitor, January 19, 2022 WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Supreme Court announced Jan. 14 that it would hear an appeal from a former high school football coach in Washington state who says his rights to freedom of speech and religion were violated when he was fired in... read more

For Clarence Thomas, avowed critic of Roe v. Wade, Mississippi abortion case a moment long awaited

11/27/2021 at 4:50 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Robert Barnes, Washington Post, November 27, 2019 Judge Clarence Thomas said at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991 that he hadn’t given that much thought to whether Roe v. Wade was correctly decided. But Justice Clarence Thomas took only months to reach a conclusion: The... 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

Injunction issued against NY COVID shot mandate; judge rules state can’t prevent filing for religious exemptions

10/18/2021 at 9:26 PM By Kevin Edward White
Judge David N. Hurd ruled that the health care workers were likely to succeed on the merits of their claims that the mandate violates the First Amendment, the Free Exercise Clause, Supremacy Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. By Joseph M. Hanneman, Catholic World... read more

High Court Halts Calif. Virus Rules Limiting Home Worship

04/10/2021 at 2:47 PM By Kevin Edward White
Newsmax, April 10, 2021 The Supreme Court is telling California that it can’t enforce coronavirus-related restrictions that have limited home-based religious worship including Bible studies and prayer meetings. The order from the court late Friday [listed HERE, under "Recent Decisions," at... read more