Supreme Court allows AR-15 ban in this state
This short article is part of a larger project titled be Catholic Supreme Court Justices, which will include an intellectual biography of each and every Catholic Justice in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States. ftis segment is on Amy Coney Bar...
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined Gorsuch in the majority. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented. The decision from the Supreme Court in the case known as Harrington v. Purdue Pha...
Divided Supreme Court weighs effort to create first religious charter school A ruling by the Supreme Court in favor of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would lead to the country's first religious charter school. Apr 30 Texas executes man for brutal 2004 murder of young mother ...
First Catholic justice: Roger B. Taney First Jewish justice: Louis Brandeis First African-American justice: Thurgood Marshall First woman justice: Sandra Day O’Connor First Hispanic justice: Sonia Sotomayor President to appoint the most justices: George Washington (11) ...
Catholic Charities Bureau, the charitable arm of the Diocese of Superior, is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The nonprofitregularly bringsreligion casesbefore the high courtand has won eight cases since 2012. Wisconsin urged the justices to let stand a ruling from the state...
Justices James Genovese and Jefferson Hughes dissented. Genovese wrote that the new ruling “obliterates” decades of precedent and “elevates a legislative act over a constitutional right.” The ruling comes as the Catholic Church continues to deal with the ramificati...
Campbell, who argued on behalf of the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, told the justices that St. Isidore's was created not by the state, but by two Catholic organizations, and it's controlled by a privately selected board of directors. ...
Thecase before the Supreme Courtis the first since it overturned Roe in which the justices examined a state law restricting access to abortion. It also was the second case involving the procedure that was before the high court in its current term. In that other court battle, the justicesreje...
“Abortion is essential to protecting religious freedom for a government that believes in the separation of church and state. … There’s six justices sitting in this court, I call on them to honor what is best about the Catholic tradition,” Manson said. ...