On Friday, December 14, the Supreme Court granted cert in Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. That petition raised two questions: 1. Does a state violate the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organization does not meet the state’s criteria for […]
El Salvador has passed sweeping cybersecurity and “data protection” laws that human rights advocates warn could undermine media freedom and privacy rights. “These new laws could be used to delete online publications that are critical of the government under the guise of data protection,” said Juanita Goebertus, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, in a […]
The pope met an emissary from the psychedelic world at a “holy meeting” at the Vatican, where a Jesuit lawyer named Brian Muraresku presented Pope Francis with a manifesto for a psychedelic “New Reformation.” Popes and reformations do not historically get along, but Francis accepted a copy of Muraresku’s 2020 book The Immortality Key at […]
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Peyman Shojaei on Unsplash ‘/> For two decades, activists have marked December 17 with demonstrations meant to mourn sex workers who have been killed and to help prevent future violence. It’s known as the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers (IDEVASW), or sometimes just D17. Over the years, it’s become a time for […]
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I’m now in Phyllis Schlafly mode: Yesterday, a group of 120 Democrats sent a letter to President Joe Biden, who is apparently still kickin’, asking him “to take immediate action to recognize the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” The ERA is a zombie that won’t […]
[1.] The First Amendment generally protects remarks on a wide range of matters, not just on politics, science, or other big subjects. As the Court held in U.S. v. Stevens (2010), “[m]ost of what we say to one another lacks ‘religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value’ …, but it is still sheltered from […]
From Ihim v. Magambo, decided Friday by the Appellate Court of Maryland (opinion by Judge Dan Friedman, joined by Judges Stephen Kehoe and J. Frederick Sharer: In May 2021, an anonymous user on Instagram sent a direct message to Achilihu suggesting that her fiancé, Magambo, had commented on her body odor. Several days later, … […]
In a sign that the times surely are changing, pop music icon Elton John came out against marijuana in a Time magazine interview. Once known as much for his excesses as for his music, the long-rehabbed star regrets not only his own overindulgence, but also legalization efforts that free users from the threat of arrest […]