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Silencing the Noise, Remembering the Call
A Reflection on General Conference Session 2025
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Our Rights …
Our rights? They don’t come from men in robes or marble halls. They’re not handed out like candy…
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Supreme Court to Weigh Constitutionality of Idaho’s Ban on Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports
On July 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case that will determine whether Idaho’s…
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Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Whether Prior Conviction Bars Future Constitutional Challenge
On July 3, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review Olivier v. City of Brandon, a case…
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Founders' First Freedom Sponsors Trans-Atlantic Conference on Religious Liberty in Switzerland
The four-day gathering in blended collegial debate with practical strategy as jurists and scholars compared U.S. and European…
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Denaturalization Threat Revives Red Scare Echoes and Legal Showdowns
Justice Department directive broadens citizenship revocation amid narrowed judicial remedies and lack of legal counsel
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Policy by Injunction? A Legal Era Faces Its Reckoning
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. CASA that district courts typically lack…
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Citizenship on Trial: The Long, Uneasy Life of the Fourteenth Amendment
From the Founders’ deliberate silence on enslaved people to Friday\'s Supreme Court ruling, America’s promise of birth-right citizenship…
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Correction – Trump's birthright citizenship order only applies to children born on or after 2/19/2025
In a recent piece, I incorrectly indicated that President Trump\’s executive order on birthright citizenship applied retroactively. In…
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URGENT: Supreme Court Limits Judicial Authority Over Presidential Orders, as Trump Administration Challenges Core Principles of the Fourteenth Amendment
Decision restricting nationwide injunctions marks latest development in broader effort targeting birthright citizenship protections established after the Civil…