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By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – July 4, 2023 ‘Semiquincentennial’ might not have the same ring as bicentennial, but we could use a reminder that America has always been great because it stands for great things. Today marks America’s 247th birthday. Three years from now, in 2026, we will reach our next milestone: the 250th. We should be preparing to make…

Aside from the parades, flags and cookouts associated with Independence Day, some commentators (myself included) like to examine the philosophical and religious underpinnings of the American founding. Was it based on Christianity or something else?

It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause is an important advancement toward equality for all.

By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – July 3, 2023 The rulings on affirmative action, student loans and free speech herald a counterrevolution against the left’s domination of American institutions. Fourth of July celebrations arrive with special resonance for conservatives this year. It is clear now that we are in the throes of a full-scale American cultural counterrevolution, propelled by rising…

The Court ruled 6-3 that the HEROES Act does not give Biden the authority to forgive billions in loans from millions of borrowers.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado cannot force a Christian website designer to create websites celebrating same-sex marriage.

By: Spencer Brown – townhall.com – June 29, 2023 It’s not as eloquent as Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” but it sometimes feels like we’re watching a similar play-within-a-play. One where, instead of an attempt to evoke guilt in a presumed murderer, it’s the Biden administration making a mockery of blind justice by acting out the motions of an investigation, charges, and punishment…

By: Brittany Bernstein – nationalreview.com – June 29, 2023 President Biden said Thursday the Supreme Court can’t have the “last word” on affirmative action, hours after the Court ruled that the race-conscious admissions policies of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. “Today the Court once again…

  By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 29, 2023 The Supreme Court had one of its finest hours on Thursday as it reaffirmed, in logical but forceful fashion, the bedrock American principle of equality under the law. In barring the use of race in college admissions, a six-Justice majority took a giant step back from the racial Balkanization…

Gerald Groff was forced to quit his job as a postal carrier because of his religious beliefs. He believes in the Christian Sabbath, but the USPS refused his religious accommodation request not to work on Sundays after initially granting his request.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a religious freedom case brought by a former postal worker who refused to work Sundays due to Sabbath observance.