Liberty
Dems keep attacking Little Sisters of the Poor
Editors at National Review Online lament a misguided Democratic legal attack. There are times when it is perfectly acceptable to judge a book by its cover, and, in the case…
Religious Freedom Restoration Act
1993 United States Law
Education
Martin Center’s Leef highlights Christian college’s fight against the feds
George Leef writes for the Martin Center about one Christian college’s stand against the federal Leviathan. Under the Constitution, the federal government has no power over education, including arrangements that…
Liberty
Protecting religious freedom in the wake of COVID-19
Graham Piro of the Washington Free Beacon documents state-level efforts to safeguard religious freedom during a pandemic. Republican-controlled state legislatures are moving to protect the right to religious worship from…
Liberty
Biden moves faster than Obama to transform America
Tyler O’Neil writes at PJMedia.com about the new president’s swift moves to make transformational changes. Joe Biden may have been something like a moderate, once. As a senator, he defended…
Law & Public Safety
Disturbing threats to religious liberty
Adam White writes for Commentary magazine about recent developments that bode ill for America’s climate of religious liberty. Indeed, when President Bill Clinton signed RFRA into law in 1993, he…
Regulation
Has the Obama Administration Admitted Defeat in Its Latest Fight over the Contraceptive Mandate?
Has the Obama Administration Admitted Defeat in Its Latest Fight over the Contraceptive Mandate?
Liberty
Have the Nuns and the Priests (and the Baptists) Won?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about an unusual order by the Supreme Court in Zubik v. Burwell, a case in which a group of religious organizations (including the…
Health Care
Obamacare returns to the U.S. Supreme Court
Casey Harper reports for the Daily Caller on the latest U.S. Supreme Court case tied to the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare will go before the Supreme Court again Wednesday, this…
Law & Public Safety
Hillsdale speaker puts religious liberty debate in context
The latest issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features a speech transcript from National Review‘s David French. He highlights elements of the recent religious liberty debate that have been drowned out…
Law & Public Safety
Upcoming JLF speaker contends Bill of Rights wouldn’t cut it today
Charles Cooke, who will discuss his new book May 18 for a John Locke Foundation audience, devotes his latest National Review Online column to present-day threats to the Bill of…
Law & Public Safety
Commentary column places religious-liberty controversy in context
We’ve heard quite a bit about how efforts to protect religious liberty through a state version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act amount to homophobes’ rear-guard effort to block the…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the trail, April 22, 2015
• Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-2nd, will have a second (and familiar) opponent in next year’s GOP primary: Investment adviser Frank Roche, who challenged Ellmers in 2014. Ellmers won the primary…