Month: October 2018
With the addition of Justice Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court now has a 5 to 4 truly conservative majority for the first time in over 80 years. It will support religious freedom and seems poised to eventually strike down the federal rights to an abortion and gay marriage. that would send these issues back to the people and the states to decide. this is a big reason why his nomination was so contentious.
After much controversy, Justice Brett Kavanaugh was added to the U.S. Supreme Court this fall to replace Justice Kennedy, who retired. This is good news for supporters of (1) religious liberty; (2) the right to life; and (3) opponents of judicial activism, often called “legislating from the bench.” The nine-member Court now consists of a majority of 5 conservative Justices appointed by Republican presidents. This article will not delve into the 1980s sexual assault allegations…
One or more of the following four religious freedom cases might be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in the next year.
The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering whether to exercise its discretion to accept the following four religious liberty cases for review. In the law, this is called a “petition for certiorari.” If at least four of the nine Justices agree to accept one or more of these cases, they will be decided by the full Court in the 2018-2019 term. Patterson v. Walgreen Co. involves a Walgreens training instructor in Florida whose Seventhday Adventist…
This fall, Pope Francis invited bishops worldwide to an unprecedented meeting at the Vatican in February, 2019 concerning the needed response to the child sex abuse scandal engulfing the catholic church.
This fall, Pope Francis summoned bishops from around the world for an unprecedented three-day meeting at the Vatican in February, 2019 focused on protecting minors from sexual abuse by priests. Pope Francis has called for every president of the 114 Catholic bishops’ conferences of the world to meet at the Vatican to discuss the sexual abuse crisis. Holy See spokesperson Paloma García Ovejero said the meeting will be about the “prevention of abuse of minors…
Why all the fuss? New U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh publicly promised last year to be a conservative, “originalist” justice like his “first judicial hero,” former Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who dissented in Roe v. Wade. This puts the constitutional rights to an abortion and gay marriage in doubt.
In a speech last year to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Justice Kavanaugh spoke for about an hour about his “first judicial hero,” the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Nixon in 1972 and served on the Court for 33 years. Justice Kavanaugh confirmed his own “originalist” approach to interpreting the Constitution, stating that it is “a document of majestic specificity.” Its “specific words have meaning.” He…
