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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Less than a week after an order of Catholic nuns asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a religious exemption to the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act (also known as "Obamacare"), the Court took the unusual step of asking for additional briefing, telling
Catholic
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law, the Supreme Court appeared deeply and evenly divided Wednesday over the arrangement devised by the administration to spare faith-based groups from having to pay for birth control for women covered under their health plans. Ninety
Catholic
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After months of waiting, the international Catholic charity organization Little Sisters of the Poor will have their day in the U.S. Supreme Court, but the case will go forward without one of the Court's strongest defenders of religious liberty – Justice Antonin Scalia, who died
Massachusetts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court came together Monday on the unlikely issue of guns, ordering Massachusetts' top court to look again at the state's ban on stun guns. The justices, with no apparent dissent, issued an unsigned opinion in favor of Jaime Caetano, who was convicted of
GOP
(CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that he would not be holding a Senate vote on President Barack Obama's nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mark Kirk became the first Republican senator to break with party leaders and call for a vote on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court selection, saying Friday, "It's just man up and cast a vote." The statement by Kirk, who faces a
GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland has met with two supportive Senate Democratic leaders and spoken by phone to more of his Republican opponents. But he's moved no closer to weakening the GOP barricade against changing his status from Supreme Court nominee to justice. President Barack Obama's pick
Barack Obama
The U.S. Senate should wait until after the presidential election to fill the vacancy created by the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. These five truths should govern the process going forward. The Senate Has No Duty to Act on the President's Nominations
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