Supreme Court votes in 11 issue areas connected to religious values. Catholic justices vote in ways that more closely adhere to the teachings of the Catholic Church than non-Catholic justices even after controlling for ideology. These results may indicate that Catholic theology is different from ...
Wisconsin urged the justices to let stand a ruling from the state’s top court upholding the exemption denial, pushing back on the charity’s assertion that the decision deepened a split among courts nationwide on how to assess whether a group has a religious purpose. “All courts look to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — TheSupreme Courton Friday said it would take up a new religious rightscaseover whether a Catholic charitable organization must pay Wisconsin's employment tax. The justices will review a divided state Supreme Court ruling that refused to grant...
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear Oklahoma's request to allow a state-funded Catholic charter school. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School is a planned digital learning, and explicitly Roman Catholic, institution that, if approved, would become the country's first taxpayer-fund...
Of the ninety-seven justices who now sit in the Supreme Court seventeen are of the Catholic faith. Among the justices of the lower courts are many Catholics. Since 1880 three mayors of New York City (Messrs. Grace, Grant, and Gilroy) have been Catholics. Francis Kernan was United States ...
Conference on Catholic Bishops, he has participated in more than 30 Supreme Court cases as counsel for religious groups in friend-of-the-Court briefs. About Stradley Ronon Counseling clients since 1926, Stradley Ronon has helped private and public companies – from small businesses to Fortune 50...
All judges and justices of the peace and ordained or licensed clergymen belonging to the State or any other State, so long as they continue in the work of the ministry, may join persons in marriage. A clergyman in solemnizing marriage is regarded in the law as a public officer, and his...
After Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch all expressively appointed with the overt intention overturning row v wade... and these justices holding a firm majority on the US supreme court for decades... surely one more wi...
To understand Catholic overrepresentation on the US Supreme Court, and how Catholics in some sense became the brains of American conservatism, we must look to the history of Catholic education in the US… When evangelicals mobilised politically in the 1970s and declared a ‘culture war’ against...
(Donald Trump is the first president since Ronald Reagan to attend neither Yale nor Harvard, thealmae matresof all current Supreme Court justices.) The Internet has greatly increased their ability to discuss and coordinate strategy and messaging. And the most prominent meet regularly at events like...