On this episode, Mollie Hemingway joins Mark to discuss her recent book, Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, co-written with Carrie Severino. Continue Reading »
It would be dangerous to give the powerful gay lobby the weapons of anti-discrimination law. Continue Reading »
Pro-lifers are not hoping for too much from the Supreme Court in June Medical Services v. Gee. Continue Reading »
The machine of contemporary civil rights law and activism grinds very finely, and without regard to social realities. Continue Reading »
Hadley Arkes, echoing themes he has developed for many years in his work, offers a forceful argument (“Backing into Relativism,” June/July) that the Supreme Court’s aspiration to contentless neutrality in its Speech and Religion Clause doctrine is a jurisprudential dead end—a “descent . . . . Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court struggles to define the place of religion in American public life. Continue Reading »
A recent Supreme Court decision acknowledges the historic role of faith in shaping the country. Continue Reading »
As the case of Jack Phillips shows, public accommodations law has little to do with justice and a lot to do with fighting. Continue Reading »
Featuring Carson Holloway on the judicial branch. Continue Reading »
You may have seen the news on March 5, when the State of Colorado Civil Rights Commission decided to drop the action it had taken against Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado. This was not the original allegation of discrimination that the Commission had received in . . . . Continue Reading »
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