Tag: Supreme Court

A small Bronx evangelical church on Monday lost the final round of its 16-year legal battle to force New York City to permit religious worship services in public schools, setting the stage for the city to eject dozens of churches and religious organizations that have been using schools for prayer.

A splintered Supreme Court displayed its deep divisions over the separation of church and state Wednesday, with the court’s prevailing conservatives signaling a broader openness to the idea that the Constitution does not require the removal of religious symbols from public land.

Here’s the kind of question that might violate the rules you learned about proper dinner conversation: Does President Obama’s next Supreme Court nominee need to be a Protestant?

If Justice John Paul Stevens decides to call it a career after he turns 90 next month, the Supreme Court would for the first time in its history be without a justice belonging to America’s largest religious affiliations.

Today’s Supreme Court is composed of six Catholics, two Jews and one Protestant.  Dahlia Litwick asks why we are afraid to question whether justices’ religions impact their decisions.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case from a Christian student group which was banned from using facilities at a public university because it excludes homosexuals and non-Christians.

Discussion of whether the Red Mass, which celebrates the legal profession, is being used to lobby the Supreme Court and the Obama Administration on abortion issues.

Joseph Infranco says it would be ludicrous to infer an endorsement of religion from a cross-shaped memorial. Erwin Chemerinsky says religious symbols belong in homes and places of worship, not on publicly owned property.

Cultural conservatives who were gearing up to use Obama’s first Supreme Court nomination as a fundraising opportunity will find Sonia Sotomayor a difficult sell.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that a Utah town should not be forced to erect a monument to a sect which mummifies pets.

Justices will decide whether the monument can stand in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers. It will be the Roberts court’s first chance to rule on separation of church and state.

Justices will decide whether the monument can stand in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers. It will be the Roberts court’s first chance to rule on separation of church and state.