Employees fired for not praying at work. Good thing we have the Establishment Clau.nevermind. [Newsweek] Given this Court, it may be a bad time to be gay in Texas. [The Hill] North Carolina's vigilantes aren't getting the go-ahead from their police chief. [Fox] Not The Onion: After promising to do everything he could to protect a woman's right to choose, Biden is nominating an anti-abortion judge for life. [Business Insider] Bound 2 litigate: Ye West sued over sampling this banger of a house track. Shouts out to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas! [Reuters]
In sequence of cases elevating First Amendment Free Exercise Clause, limiting Establishment Clause, Court held in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District that Free Exercise, Free Speech Clauses protect personal religious observance from government reprisal, suppression.
Texas sheriff decides that Dobbs just didn't happen. [The Guardian] The "deeply rooted" rhetoric from the Dobbs opinion is already getting used to attack trans folks. If only America was deeply rooted in equality. [Axios] The SCOTUS Dobbs ruling was so bad How bad was it? that it tanked American soft power. Please clap. [WaPo] Reminder: Respect to Dick's and all, but planning on corporations to save you generally isn't good praxis. [Commondreams] With Bremerton nixing the Establishment Clause, I wonder how the Court will process religious justifications for abortion? [Miami Herald]