…The Supreme Court has long held that “the right to vote is fundamental” because it is “preservative of all rights.”6Harper v. Va. State Bd. of Elections, 383 U.S. 663, 667…
“Masking as Religious Obligation vs. Masking for Public Safety” by David Zeligman
…2012, the Supreme Court of Canada dealt with the case of R. v. N.S., where a witness, anonymized as N.S., had accused her uncle and cousin of sexually abusing her…
“An Empowering Civic Education through Law Learning” by Ariel Liberman
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…Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment cannot compel uniformity of opinion, reasoning in part, “Boards of Education … have, of course, important, delicate, and highly…
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…or inhibited religion; or that excessively entangled a government organization in religion. The Lemon test has continually been applied in lower courts, but the conservative jurists on the Supreme Court…
“Pushing States to Attach Regulatory Strings to Vouchers” by James G. Dwyer
…at issue, Maine presented two complementary arguments to the Supreme Court: 1) We only want to fund private equivalents to a public school education. 2) We do not want taxpayer…
“Restricting Public Worship During Covid: The Response of Courts Across the Globe” by Mark Movsesian
…This partisan breakdown held true at the Supreme Court as well as in the lower courts. A partisan pattern clearly appeared in the U.S. cases on Covid restrictions on communal…
“Religious Exemption Laws & the Conservative Legal Movement” by Elizabeth Reiner Platt
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“Ministerial Exceptions, Religious Exemptions, and Anti-Discrimination Legislation: Reciprocal Lessons from America and Australia” by P. T. Babie
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