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Church and State
October 4, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Oklahoma Uses Schools to Line Trump’s Pockets in Shameless Bible Grift
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters has “coincidentally” changed the rules for classroom materials in order to send millions to Donald Trump.
June 27, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Deranged Ten Commandments Law Is Already Spawning Copycats
Another Christian nationalist mandate has hit public schools, this time in Oklahoma.
June 24, 2024
Ben Metzner
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Already on Its Way to Supreme Court
Louisiana’s governor said he can’t wait to be sued. He just got what he wanted.
June 21, 2024
Ben Metzner
Only Defense of the Ten Commandments Law Just Imploded Spectacularly
Louisiana Republican Representative Lauren Ventrella failed miserably to defend the law she co-authored.
June 21, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Morality Police Lauren Boebert Accidentally Exposes Own Hypocrisy
The Colorado Republican seems to have conveniently forgotten about all the commandment violations in her own life.
June 21, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s Disturbing Message on Lousiana’s Ten Commandments Law
Donald Trump has come out in support of forced religion.
June 19, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Louisiana Obliterates Separation of Church and State With Wild New Law
The Bayou State just got one step closer to Christian nationalism.
February 22, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Nikki Haley Desperately Tries to Walk Back Comment on Alabama Embryo Ruling
As hospitals across Alabama pause IVF treatments, Nikki Haley is suddenly trying to claim she never said what she said.
February 19, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling
The Alabama Supreme Court’s decision is all but guaranteed to gut IVF in the entire state.
June 1, 2023
Prem Thakker
“We Have to Bring Religion Back Into Our Country,” Says Sexual Abuser Donald Trump
It’s not clear when exactly Trump thinks religion left our country.
May 30, 2023
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Linda K. Wertheimer
Inside the Christian Legal Crusade to Revive School Prayer
Buoyed by the right-wing Supreme Court, Christian groups are laying the groundwork for public schools to veer back toward the 1960s.
April 21, 2023
Tori Otten
Texas Republicans Pass Bill Requiring Ten Commandments in Every Classroom
Separation of church and state or nah?
July 5, 2022
Charles McCrary
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Leslie Ribovich
The Supreme Court’s Holy War Against Public Schools
The conservative bloc’s recent religious rulings went much further than merely obliterating the firewall between church and state.
October 22, 2019
Matt Ford
Bill Barr’s First Epistle to the Heathens
The attorney general believes the Christian hegemony is essential to American democracy, and wants to leverage state power to uphold it.
June 27, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
The Supreme Court’s Incredible Privileging of Religion
In obliging the state to directly aid Trinity Lutheran and other churches, the Court is allowing the religious right to have their cake and eat it, too.
April 18, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Neil Gorsuch Is Poised to Swing a Landmark Church-State Case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could tip the balance of power towards religion over secularism.
June 18, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Separation of Church and State Is Still Alive—for Children, Anyway
Why did the Supreme Court decline to hear Elmbrook School District v. Doe?
November 7, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
Antonin Scalia Just Cracked the Door to State-Sanctioned Prayer
Religious supremacy may be on the rise at the Supreme Court
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