Today, the United States Supreme Court handed down a significant religious liberty decision. In Health and Human Services v. Hobby Lobby, the Court sided with Hobby Lobby, ruling, in essence, that the federal government cannot force closely held corporations to provide health plans that include contraceptives that might induce abortions. These health plans are required, […]
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Supreme Court Sides With Hobby Lobby
30 Jun 2014
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Curious Minds Really Want to Know
27 Jun 2014
My Berean colleague Mark Smith wrote a very nice blog on the two cases decided by the United States Supreme Court yesterday. I commend it to you. But we were really hoping, I think, to hear from the Court on the Hobby Lobby case. You remember it. The Affordable Care Act (now in effect four years) […]
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Gridlock is Good
27 Jun 2014
Yesterday (June 26) the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest (we could only wish) said, regarding immigration, “We’re not just going to sit around interminably for Congress.” He went on to say that the Obama administration was growing impatient with Congress. Well, this isn’t exactly earth-shattering news. We have known for say, seven years, that […]
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President Barack Obama seems intent on pushing the boundaries of executive power. The Supreme Court, at least for today, has said ‘enough.’ Two cases handed down on Thursday highlight the breach between the Court and the President. In NLRB v. Canning, the issue seems rather abstract. The President appoints a host of people, but many […]
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Obama and the Bergdahl Release
02 Jun 2014
President Obama, unfortunately, does not seem all that interested in obeying the law. The list of overt illegality continues to grow and diversify. Beyond immigration and the Affordable Care Act, the President now flouts the law as it relates to military matters. The Obama Administration, through intermediaries, negotiated the release of Bowe Bergdahl, an American prisoner of […]
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The United States Supreme Court has issued a ruling in the little-known but important case of Bond v. U. S. The facts are as follows: One Carol Bond discovered that her husband was having an affair with Carol’s best friend. She decided the best way to respond was to spread a poisoned chemical on surfaces […]
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Progressivism Come to Fruition
25 May 2014
President Obama, in a speech at a fundraiser this week, made the comment that ““Obviously, the nature of the Senate means that California has the same number of Senate seats as Wyoming. That puts us at a disadvantage,” (Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/23/obama-blames-structural-design-congress-gridlock/#ixzz32diVrnJV). Now he may have meant it simply as a fact that Democrats must deal with, but I am a […]
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Legislation, the deliberate making of law, has justly been described as among all inventions of man the one fraught with the gravest consequences, more far-reaching in its effects even than fire and gun-powder. Unlike law itself, which has never been ‘invented’ in the same sense, the invention of legislation came relatively late in the history […]
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Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States passed down a ruling on MCCUTCHEON ET AL. v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION. Two of my very able colleagues at Bereans at the Gate (professors Haymond and Smith) posted commentary on the ruling yesterday. Both of these gentlemen are more qualified and able to comment on this ruling […]
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As Dr. Haymond noted in a previous post, the Supreme Court handed down McCutcheon v. F.E.C. today, which, in spirit, is a companion case to Citizens United v. F.E.C. in 2010. Both cases deal with the conflict between campaign finance reforms and Free Speech. We have a long history of campaign reform, including limits on […]
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