Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today the Senate will take up the confirmation of Elena Kagan tomorrow morning. A vote is expected Thursday or Friday.
I'm a little surprised that news coverage of recent mosque controversies has made practically no mention of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). (I guess, in their defense, it *is* hard to pronounce.) That law, passed in 2000,...
Saturday's NYTimes offered an update on the controversial proposal to build a mosque and Islamic center near the ground zero site in New York, characterizing it as a "fierce national debate about the limits of religious freedom." City officials,...
Michael Kessler begins a column about the newest Muslim debate like this: With all the loud clamoring about the proposed Islamic Center to be built near Ground Zero, reasonable voices are hard to discern. One thing is clear: this is not a debate about religious...
Via Religion Clause, a lawsuit against controversial Ohio high school teacher John Freshwater has been settled, according to the Columbus Dispatch: The family of a boy who said his eighth-grade science teacher burned a cross on his arm with an electric lab instrument...
