A unanimous panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday declared the Haskell Count, Oklahoma Ten Commandments monument unconstitutional, overturning a trial court's ruling. Citing the "unique circumstances" of the case, the court ruled (pdf)...
The Supreme Court today declined to hear the appeal in the Arizona Snowbowl case, leaving in place the 9th Circuit's ruling that RFRA does not prohibit a ski resort on federal land from introducing treated sewage (for artificial snow) into the mountain, despite...
We didn't need any more reasons to find fault with the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon briefings adorned with Scripture, but Bradford Winters at the Image Journal blog offers another reminder why a Bible-verse foreign policy is a bad idea. Tracing the biblical context of...
At the Washington Post's God in Government blog, William Wan gives a helpful outline of the first official meeting of the White House's Faith Advisory Council, a hand-picked group of 25 religious leaders across the country tasked to work on specific issues...
The Prince George County Sheriff's Office has heard about legal disputes in other parts of the country over a Muslim woman's right to wear religious head covering in a courtroom, and asked the Maryland AG for an opinion before the issue arises there too....
Blog of the Legal Times is reporting that the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to send the nominations of Judge David Hamilton (7th Circuit), Andre Davis (4th Circuit) and Thomas Perez (Civil Rights Div.) to the full Senate. Perez and Davis were vote out with...
