The Law and the Courts Archive

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Can churches be refused access to government-rented facilities?

 

Are donated Ten Commandments monuments in jeopardy?

Here's your unofficial Senate liberal playbook for 2008.
Citizenlink

An interview with Bruce Hausknecht, J.D., the judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action.
Citizen Magazine

Dr. James Dobson and Tom Minnery led Focus on the Family into the world of public policy 20 years ago “with fear and trembling.” And they don’t regret it.
Citizenlink

Judicial restraint the guiding principle of the Court's two newest justices.
Citizenlink

Leftist censors aren’t just dropping hints about their determination to legislate conservative talk radio out of existence. They are screaming their intentions, loud and clear.
Townhall.com

Liberals on the committee were for Leslie Southwick before they were against him.
Citizenlink

A dispute over the use of a library meeting room for worship services may go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Citizenlink

Her murder, and that of her preborn son, Conner, inspired state and federal laws that frighten liberals, but shouldn’t.
Citizenlink

Public accountability is on the rise among state judges who never had reason before to care what voters thought of their philosophy.
Citizen Magazine

Chief Justice John Roberts explains why courts and judges should leave society's hard problems to elected representatives.

Judicial restraint the guiding principle of the Court's two newest justices.

A dispute over the use of a library meeting room for worship services may go all the way to the Supreme Court.

A quick debriefing on what's really happening. 

 

Recent survey indicates a majority of Americans believe the Constitution established a Christian nation. Did it?
The Center Blog (Center for Law & Religious Freedom)

The Federal Communications Commission did the right thing 20 years ago in throwing this unnecessary, counter-productive, and unwise restriction on speech into the regulatory dustbin.
Heritage Foundation

Decision represents an awakening of the conscience of a nation.
Citizenlink

Some preachers deeply believe that homosexuality is a sin. What if 'hate speech' laws prosecute them for saying so?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

You can write a letter or send an e-mail, but nothing compares to the impact of meeting with your congressman face-to-face in your hometown.
Citizen Magazine, 2001

National motto survives another Newdow lawsuit -- for now.
Citizenlink

The United States Supreme Court has never ruled that prayer or religious messages are completely banned during public school graduation ceremonies. The key to graduation prayer is that the school should remain neutral – neither commanding that prayer or religious messages be given, nor prohibiting voluntary prayer or religious messages. The school must not censor prayer or religious content from the graduation podium
Liberty Counsel

Congressman takes issue with Justice Breyer's "active liberty"
National Review Online

The author argues against a 2004 plan to let states decide the marriage issue.
National Review Online

A Cincinnati suburb does not have the right to seize private property in order to build a private commercial establishment.
Citizenlink

The Ayotte case impacted abortion law more than you might think.
Citizenlink

The president promised us judicial nominees who understand their role is to interpret law, not make it. Recent developments indicate he -- and Senate conservatives -- might be growing less committed.
Citizenlink

Moses the Lawgiver appears all over the U.S. Supreme Court building, but thanks to two muddled rulings on Ten Commandments displays, he's one vote away from being obliterated.
Citizen Magazine

The Left's plan to block judicial nominees.
National Review Online

The 2006 votes in the House and Senate on the Federal Marriage Protection Amendment have great but subtle political and constitutional significance.
Jurist

No metaphor in American letters has had a more profound influence on law and policy than Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state.”
The Heritage Foundation

Natural law and Locke influenced America's founding.
RenewAmerica

An in-depth analysis of the "appointments" clause of the Constitution and the "advice and consent" responsibility of the Senate.
The Claremont Institute

The definition of marriage has never been a state issue.
Washington Times

A look back at a certain judicial nominee throws light on the Democratic filibusters.
Citizenlink

The battle over federal judge selection has attracted national public attention.

Focus on the Family supports federal judicial nominees who subscribe to a “strict constructionist” judicial philosophy.

A Marriage Protection Amendment is essential in our fight to protect the institution of marriage.

During the filibuster debate, many liberal talking points turned out to be myth, not fact.

Some judges are getting out of control. Can they be stopped?

Understanding judicial activism and what to do about it.

Alito's opinions reveal support for religious speech and expression.