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From Football Field to Supreme Court: Meet the Coach Who’s Fighting for Freedom to Pray

April 24, 2022 Meet, Field, freedom, Fighting, Who's, Pray, Football, Coach, Court, Supreme, from0 comment

BREMERTON, Washington—It’s the final play of coach Joe Kennedy’s seven-year legal battle. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in Kennedy’s case, and ultimately decide whether a public school employee is allowed to participate in silent prayer in view of students while on the clock. “The only thing I’m asking the Supreme Court is that I get to be a coach, and I get to thank God afterwards,” Kennedy says. In 2015, Kennedy lost his job as an assistant football coach at a high school in Washington state after…

The Supreme Court’s ‘Dead Hand’

February 11, 2022 Dead, Supreme, courts, hand0 comment

The Supreme Court has set itself on a collision course with the forces of change in an inexorably diversifying America. The six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have been nominated and confirmed by GOP presidents and senators representing the voters least exposed, and often most hostile, to the demographic and cultural changes remaking 21st-century American life. Now the GOP Court majority is moving at an accelerating pace to impose that coalition’s preferences on issues such as abortion, voting rights, and affirmative action. On all of these fronts, and others, the Republican…

News Roundup: Senate battle for voting protections; Supreme Court rejects latest Trump gambit

January 20, 2022 News, gambit, Senate, Court, Voting, Supreme, battle, latest, Rejects, Roundup, Trump, Protections0 comment

In the news today: Tonight saw the latest Senate battle to protect voting rights even as Republican-held state legislatures pass unprecedented rollbacks targeting those rights. What’s next is unclear, but Democratic leaders organized the vote tonight as a move to force the two Senate Democratic holdouts—as well as all Senate Republicans—on record for blocking the urgently needed protections. Also this evening, the Supreme Court rejected a Trump demand that the National Archives refuse a congressional request for administration records pertaining to the violence on January 6. Justice Thomas was the…

Jay Sekulow Explains Vaccine Mandate Cases Before Supreme Court

January 10, 2022 Court, Supreme, Before, Explains, Cases, mandate, Vaccine, Sekulow0 comment

Friday was a critical day for American liberty. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases to determine whether or not a stay would be issued against President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates. The high court heard arguments on the Biden COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees, and also on the mandate requiring health care workers to be vaccinated. “The courts seem inclined to strike down the mandate, probably on the lack of authority ground, that OSHA, the agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration,…

Vaccine Hostility Gets Its Day In The Supreme Court

January 9, 2022 Vaccine, Court, Supreme, gets, hostility0 comment

<p>Extreme vaccine skepticism got a showing at the Supreme Court on Friday. </p> Talking Points Memo

Vaccine Mandate Cases May Hold Clues About Whether Supreme Court Intends To Drastically Constrain Biden’s Power

January 6, 2022 Biden's, Vaccine, Court, clues, about, Drastically, Supreme, Constrain, power, Hold, Cases, whether, intends, mandate0 comment

<p>The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two vaccine mandate cases Friday, the culmination of an extremely expedited and unusual process to get the mandates before the high court. </p> Talking Points Memo