By: Joe Kennedy – wsj.com – April 24, 2022 With all the bad things I’ve done in my life, it still surprises me that I was fired for praying. I was a terrible kid. My adoptive parents did their best, but I was always getting in trouble. The Marine Corps became my ticket out of the fights, group homes and...

Jerry Newcombe responds to reporter who wants to start over with ‘inclusive’ document.

For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims, Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned.

By: Robert Barnes – washingtonpost.com – February 9, 2022 Kruger is on the shortlist to replace retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer Jr., and conservative groups are promoting her role in the case Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as evidence that she would not protect religious rights as a member of the Supreme Court. To see this...

Robyn Strader—a nurse practitioner with multiple, advanced degrees—was fired from CVS Pharmacy after CVS had accommodated her religious beliefs without issue for six and a half years. Why? Because CVS wants to force its employees to prescribe contraception even when it violates the employee’s religious beliefs.

Politically and jurisprudentially, it’s not all doom and gloom.

The New York Times reports that Justice Breyer intends to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of this term. If President Biden can pick a nominee who is palatable to the 50 senators who caucus with his party, he will be able to replace Breyer fairly quickly.  

Stephen Breyer is retiring at the end of the current Supreme Court term, at the age of 83, after 27 years on the Court. We wish him good health and a happy retirement. We wish we could be equally cheery about the prospect that his replacement will be faithful to the Constitution and laws of the United States.  

For conservative advocates watching the courts, these cases have a lot of significance, which means this term could mark an even sharper turn to the right than the non-lawyers among us may be expecting.

For the last year, we’ve heard one commentator after another tell us that American democracy is in crisis.