by | Jun 29, 2018 | Politics
This morning in Trump v. Hawaii, (US Sup. Ct., June 26, 2018), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the latest version of President Trump’s travel ban, rejecting Establishment Clause challenges to the ban. Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion, joined by... by | Jun 27, 2018 | Politics
The EEOC announced on Wednesday that it has won a settlement in a religious discrimination lawsuit brought against J.C. Witherspoon, a South Carolina-based logging company. The company fired a Hebrew Pentecostal employee because he refused to work on Saturday, his... by | Jun 27, 2018 | Politics
The shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, has questioned Boris Johnson’s reasons for ‘admiring’ Trump and asked why the US president should have the honour of visiting the UK in two weeks. The foreign secretary had been asked to justify the... by | Jun 25, 2018 | Politics
Family separation was a key tactic of the 18th- and 19th-century slave trade. Now, another cruel regime has used it“I can remember the scene as if it were but yesterday,” formerly enslaved Elizabeth Keckley wrote about her family separation. The sorrow was too much to... by | Jun 25, 2018 | Politics
In Lions Club of Albany, California v. City of Albany, (ND CA, June 15, 2018), a California federal district court held that a city violated the Establishment Clause by acquiring for a public park a 1.1 acre parcel of land that includes a large cross. Originally the... by | Jun 24, 2018 | Politics
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley announced yesterday (video of statement) that the the United States has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council. Haley said that the Council has not implemented needed reforms that have been...
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