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WASHINGTON (CN) Citing California’s history of failing to keep personal information secure, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Monday morning to overturn the state’s nonprofit donor disclosure law.
“If someone said ‘I want to give a donation [to a controversial group] but I want to be sure California won’t disclose it, can you guarantee the donation won’t be made public?” Chief Justice John Roberts asked California’s Deputy Solicitor General Aimee Feinberg during a hearing that lasted over two hours.
“I don’t think any organization can guarantee perfection,” Feinberg responded.
Church analyst: The bishops are uneasy with Biden, but he could be good news President Joe Biden departs church after the confirmation of his grandson Hunter at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Greenville, Del., April 18. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
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select President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington April 20. (CNS photo/Tom Brenner, Reuters) DENVER The majority of U.S. bishops in a recent survey were at best “uneasy” with the second Catholic president in U.S. history, said Catholic analyst Francis Maier, yet Joe Biden’s presidency could in an unexpected way be good news for the Catholic Church.
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Public confidence in institutions is already low. Adding justices to the Supreme Court would make it worse
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The debate over enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court would be largely unnecessary if Congress would take its power to legislate seriously.
Even so, history has plenty to offer on the subject, clearly demonstrating that court size has been used as a political weapon before. No one should doubt that, once unsheathed again after lying dormant for 152 years, it would be weaponized again.
The nation’s high court has, in recent decades, become pivotal in battles over culture-war issues. That includes cases involving limits on abortion rights, such as a recent one striking down a Louisiana state law that imposed hospital-admission requirements on abortion clinic doctors. And in the Hobby Lobby case that exempted private corporations from regulations its owners objected to on religious grounds. And i