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A Rush to Execute
27 jan. 2021 - In six months, the Trump administration put to death over three times as many people as the federal government had executed in the previous six decades.
 · death-penalty · rule-of-law · united-states · us-supreme-court

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A New Assault on Marriage Equality
3 dec. 2020 - A case before the Supreme Court tests whether its conservative justices will violate their long-standing constitutional principles in order to expand religious liberty.
 · freedom · freedom-of-religion · freedom-of-speech · gay-rights · united-states · us-supreme-court

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The Court’s Declarations of Independence
20 aug. 2020 - When the Supreme Court’s 2019–2020 term opened last October, with LGBTQ discrimination, gun rights, abortion, immigration, and state funding of religious schools on the docket, it promised to be both controversial and deeply partisan. The Court then added cases on whether President Trump could block Congress and a grand jury from obtaining his personal financial records, and whether employers who objected to contraception on religious grounds could refuse to provide their employees with insurance that paid for it. This was Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s second term on the Court, and it afforded a real test of how his replacement of the more moderate Anthony Kennedy would alter the Court’s character. Republicans, who had long made picking “reliable” conservative justices a priority, were eager to reap their rewards.
 · abortion-rights · gay-rights · united-states · us-supreme-court