Internal Revenue Service building Religious broadcasters sue IRS over rule limiting political speech for nonprofits

admin November 23, 2024 0 Comments

CNA—A coalition of religious broadcasters and churches is suing the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over a long-standing rule that forbids certain nonprofits, including churches, from supporting politicians and political campaigns. The complaint, filed on August 28, 2024, in U.S. district court by the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), argues that churches “are placed in a…

Southern Poverty Law Center cuts 60 jobs, union says it stashed cash, some call it “the biggest bully in the room”

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According to reports in Yahoo!, CNN, Fox News, AP and more, the radical, Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center recently slashed more than 60 employees. In addition, union officials related to the organization say it stashed cash. Long known for its fierce and radical labeling of so-called “hate groups” that included Catholic and evangelical entities,…

Supreme Court overturns ‘Chevron’ doctrine with big implications for religious liberty

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CNA—The Supreme Court on Friday, June 28, 2024, overturned a 40-year-old decision that gave unelected federal agencies considerable power to interpret federal law, with significant implications for religious freedom. The high court in its Friday decision in the case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturned the 1984 ruling in Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council,…

Baltimore Archdiocese sues insurers over abuse claims coverage

. April 5, 2024 0 Comments

CNA—The Archdiocese of Baltimore is suing numerous insurers over their alleged failure to pay for abuse claims stretching back several decades. The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in September of last year ahead of a state law that ended the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits for negligence concerning child sexual abuse. The law opened the archdiocese up…

Aaron Kheriaty, MD: Supreme Court Oral Arguments—Murthy v. Missouri, In-Depth Analysis, Part 1

Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. March 22, 2024 0 Comments

My commentary on the government’s arguments and the Justices’ interrogations of the government’s lawyer regarding the first day of the Supreme Court case of Murthy v. Missouri, our free speech case challenging government censorship. The government’s opening argument attempted to characterize their behavior as friendly persuasion toward the social media companies, not overt coercion. Justice…

Aaron Kheriaty, M.D.: Our Day in the Supreme Court

Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. March 21, 2024 0 Comments

My initial reaction to the oral arguments in our Murthy v. Missouri (a.k.a. Missouri v. Biden) case on Monday follows below. As many of you are aware, on we had oral arguments on Monday at the Supreme Court in our free speech case challenging government censorship. The arguments have generated a lot of commentary in…

Parent Rights: Open Letter Responding to California Attorney General’s Misleading Schools “Guidance”

. September 29, 2023 0 Comments

Parental rights are on the chopping block in California, yet the state’s Attorney General Rob Bonta ignores the supremacy of federal law and federal courts. People v. Chino Valley Unified School District In a September 26 letter issued to school district superintendents and members of boards of education, titled “Guidance Regarding Forced Disclosure Policies Concerning…

Which states now protect churches from closure?

admin September 16, 2023 0 Comments

CNA—After hitting their lowest recorded levels since the start of the pandemic in early summer, COVID-19 cases have begun to increase again, raising the specter of new mask mandates and recalling the early days of the pandemic, when fears of COVID outbreaks led much of society to shutter — including, controversially, many churches around the…

Cardinal Raymond Burke: Discipline and Doctrine: Law in the Service of Truth and Love

admin August 9, 2023 0 Comments

(full text follows) The Role of Canon Law In the period immediately preceding the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and, even more so, in the post-Conciliar period, the Church’s canonical discipline was called into question at its very foundations. The crisis of canon law had its origin in the same philosophical presuppositions which were inspiring a…

Appeals court rules Catholic school allowed to hold employees to moral religious standards

admin July 14, 2023 0 Comments

CNA—A federal appeals court ruled that a Catholic school in Indiana is allowed to hold its leaders to moral religious standards after the institution refused to renew an employee’s contract because she violated Catholic teaching. What happened? Roncalli High School, which is under the authority of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, refused to renew the contract…

Thomas More Society Fights Biden Administration Attempt to Force Elective Abortions in ER

admin July 13, 2023 0 Comments

(July 13, 2023 – New Orleans, Louisiana) Thomas More Society attorneys have filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in a lawsuit seeking to block a Biden Administration directive that forces doctors to perform elective abortions in emergency rooms. The filing, made July 7, 2023, in the United States Court of Appeals for…

U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Colorado Web Designer on First Amendment, Free Speech

admin July 1, 2023 0 Comments

CNA—The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment’s free speech clause protects a Colorado web designer who feared she would be prosecuted under state anti-discrimination law for her faith-based objections to designing websites that promote same-sex marriage or same-sex weddings. Lorie Smith, owner of the graphic and web design studio 303 Creative LLC,…

New Discrimination Complaint Filed: An Interesting Twist to the Bud Light / Anheuser-Busch Marketing Debacle

admin June 26, 2023 0 Comments

Discrimination complaint filed against Bud Light, Anheuser-Bush — Last week, America First Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint against Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch (a division of InBev), for “illegal, racist and sexist hiring practices.” An interesting twist indeed to the recent marketing debacle that sent shares of the former #1 beer brand—once favored…

U.S. Supreme Court issues 8-1 ruling allowing legislative leaders to defend voter ID

. June 1, 2023 0 Comments

The Carolina Journal—The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, 8-1, that N.C. legislative leaders will be able to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging that state’s voter ID law. The decision reverses a ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “[F]ederal courts should rarely question that a State’s interests will be practically impaired or…

Religious Freedom: 22 States Support Masterpiece Cakeshop Owner’s Right to Create Freely

admin May 2, 2023 0 Comments

Denver—Twenty-two states, six Colorado state legislators, and multiple advocacy groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the Colorado Supreme Court, asking it to uphold the First Amendment freedoms of cake artist Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop. The case name is: Scardina v. Masterpiece Cakeshop Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys representing Phillips and his cake shop filed…

‘No one is to be treated as subhuman’: Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz dies on Good Friday at age 103

admin April 14, 2023 0 Comments

CNA, The Guardian and other sources—The last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials, Benjamin Ferencz, died last week on Good Friday at the age of 103. Ferencz secured the convictions of 22 Nazis for the murder of 1 million Jews during World War II. He spent the rest of his life advocating for human rights.…

Suspect Carlos Medina Confesses to Senseless Murder of L.A. Bishop David O’Connell

admin February 28, 2023 0 Comments

Among the many articles on the murder of Ireland native, Los Angeles Bishop David G. O’Connell, Catholic Business Journal found the following article the Los Angeles Times to be the most to-the-point and informative, especially as one reads the full article to the end: A 61-year-old man who prosecutors said has admitted that he killed…

20 attorneys general warn CVS, Walgreens against abortion pills in their states

admin February 3, 2023 0 Comments

CNA—As CVS and Walgreens continue to seek federal approval to sell an abortion drug, 20 attorneys general whose states restrict abortion warned the pharmacy chains against fulfilling mail orders within their states. What has FDA approved so far? Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of mifepristone through pharmacies if…

Court Victory for California Cake Artist Cathy Miller Targeted for Religious Discrimination

. October 24, 2022 0 Comments

Cake designer Cathy Miller has been vindicated in the California courts for practicing her Christian principles on the job. On October 21, 2022, attorneys from the Thomas More Society law firm brought home a First Amendment victory for the cake shop owner of Tastries, a popular Bakersfield, California, bakery that was targeted for abiding by…

Supreme Court to hear case of designer who won’t create websites for same-sex weddings

admin October 6, 2022 0 Comments

CNA/ADF—The Supreme Court’s fall term features a major case that will push the question of religious liberty back into the national spotlight as the court determines whether or not a Colorado woman can be forced to violate her religious beliefs about marriage. Lorie Smith, an artist and small business owner, is challenging a Colorado state…

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Internal Revenue Service building Religious broadcasters sue IRS over rule limiting political speech for nonprofits

Southern Poverty Law Center cuts 60 jobs, union says it stashed cash, some call it “the biggest bully in the room”

Supreme Court overturns ‘Chevron’ doctrine with big implications for religious liberty

Baltimore Archdiocese sues insurers over abuse claims coverage

Aaron Kheriaty, MD: Supreme Court Oral Arguments—Murthy v. Missouri, In-Depth Analysis, Part 1

Aaron Kheriaty, M.D.: Our Day in the Supreme Court

Parent Rights: Open Letter Responding to California Attorney General’s Misleading Schools “Guidance”

Which states now protect churches from closure?

Cardinal Raymond Burke: Discipline and Doctrine: Law in the Service of Truth and Love

Appeals court rules Catholic school allowed to hold employees to moral religious standards

Thomas More Society Fights Biden Administration Attempt to Force Elective Abortions in ER

U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Colorado Web Designer on First Amendment, Free Speech

New Discrimination Complaint Filed: An Interesting Twist to the Bud Light / Anheuser-Busch Marketing Debacle

U.S. Supreme Court issues 8-1 ruling allowing legislative leaders to defend voter ID

Religious Freedom: 22 States Support Masterpiece Cakeshop Owner’s Right to Create Freely

‘No one is to be treated as subhuman’: Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz dies on Good Friday at age 103

Suspect Carlos Medina Confesses to Senseless Murder of L.A. Bishop David O’Connell

20 attorneys general warn CVS, Walgreens against abortion pills in their states

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