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Tomorrow, the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle will host the 55th Red Mass.
Tradition holds that, on the Sunday before the opening of the Court’s October term, the Catholic Church hosts a mass to bring wisdom and guidance to the Justices of the high court. Although the current Court is a 5-4 majority of Catholics, […]

Those crazy Louisianians are at it again! Apparently, a US District Court Judge has upheld the placement of a picture of Jesus in a Louisianian courthouse. The picture is placed within the broader context of a display featuring prominent lawmakers in history including Mohammed (with Koran), Charlemagne, Napoleon, and King Louis IX.
The decision in […]

Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the national meeting of the United Church of Christ on June 23. He talked about the role of religion in politics, and you’ve probably heard something about it via popular news sources.
The Associated Press reported that Obama told the church crowd, “right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized […]

The transition from Clinton to Bush was particularly challenging for the US Department of Justice, even beyond the move from Harvard-graduate Janet Reno to questionably literate John Ashcroft. Along with the new administration came a new series of priorities, and an unhealthily low DOJ turnover rate.
This morning, The New York Times indicted the Bush […]

Well, the Court handed down a marginally interesting ruling on Monday in Schriro v. Landrigan. On a 5-4 vote, the Court overruled the Ninth Circut and held that a man who had rejected any mitigating evidence in favor of him during his trial is not subject to an evidentiary hearing and federal habeus review. Justice […]

Now that the dust has finally settled on the Court’s ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, Feminists are understandably upset and conservative groups are cautiously elated. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of opinions from around the blogosphere have come down with decidedly partisan terms. Feministing got mad at ‘anti-choicers’ while RedState called out ‘advocates of infanticide.’ […]

It recently came to my attention that the Texas legislature is considering legislation to require Texas high schools to offer Bible study classes in schools in which there are at least 15 students interested in the class. As usual, this ill-conceived piece of legislation is authored by Representative Warren Chisum. Assuming (major assumption) that the […]