The culture wars returned to the Supreme Court in May-June 2014, as the Justices closed out their term with rulings that upheld the rights of religious conservatives to further impose their values on everyone else.
Stephen Bergstein
Another recent court decision that abridges our freedoms
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that strikes at the heart of one of the many culture wars in…
The painful reality facing the civil rights community is that the U.S. Supreme Court is locked in a 5-4 conservative majority on…
A recent 5-4 decision rejected a challenge to the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the government to…
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The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the issue of affirmative action in public education. The Court has not ventured into this…
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