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George Mason University School of Law has just been renamed the Antonin Scalia School of Law in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Accompanying the name change was a receipt of a $30 million gift: $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation and $20 million from an
Obamacare
WASHINGTON – Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III on Wednesday proposed "clarifying" the Religious Freedom Act in a way that supporters say will prevent organizations, business owners and other individuals from using it to shield discrimination against others on the basis of religious beliefs. Business owners who
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Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, released Wednesday a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he's elected to the White House. The list of conservative federal and state judges
Abortion
To the surprise of no one who has paid any attention to the litigation, the post-Scalia Supreme Court this week resolved the challenges brought by religious groups to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate without issuing a sweeping decision one way or the other. Instead, the Supreme Court's decision
Abortion
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Supreme Court today punted the question of whether the government can compel nuns, priests, and faith-based schools to provide employees with contraceptive coverage, even if they are bound by religious teachings that forbid certain forms of birth control. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite=""
Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — For more than 11 years, die-hard parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini church maintained a constant vigil there in hopes of reversing a decision by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to close it as part of a broad restructuring plan. Those hopes ended on Monday, though, when
new hampshire
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will not hear Exxon Mobil's appeal of a $236 million judgment for its use of a gasoline additive that contaminated groundwater in New Hampshire. The court's order Monday leaves in place a jury verdict involving contamination by the chemical MTBE.
Massachusetts
CAMBRIDGE — Liberals have won the culture wars, and should start taking advantage of their victory, Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet wrote in a recent blog entry that has drawn much attention for suggesting conservatives should be treated like post-war Germans and Japanese. Tushnet, who teaches constitutional and civil rights
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