Today’s court decision removes any judicial check on the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track the deportations of asylum seekers who cannot show strong evidence of persecution in their home countries.
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Are L.G.B.T. employees at Catholic institutions protected by the new SCOTUS ruling?
The short answer is: it is unlikely.
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Armed with prayers and signs, young immigrants hail high court’s decision
DACA was implemented in 2012 under an executive order from President Barack Obama, but in 2017, the Trump administration rescinded it with its own executive order.
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The Supreme Court saved DACA. Now Congress needs to act.
Congress must stop passing the buck to the courts and do the work of passing a just immigration law.
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Supreme Court rules against Trump’s bid to end DACA program
The justices rejected administration arguments that the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program is illegal.
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Supreme Court stops Texas execution over rule banning clergy in the death chamber
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution for Texas death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez June 16, saying the state prison officials need to reexamine their rule that bans clergy from being with prisoners to the execution chamber.
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Editorial: L.G.B.T. discrimination protections are not a catastrophe for Catholicism.
As with the Obergefell decision, this ruling also affords the church an opportunity to reimagine its public witness.
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Supreme Court says federal law protects L.G.B.T. workers from discrimination
The decision was for two consolidated cases about fired gay employees and a separate case concerning a fired transgender worker who had sued for employment discrimination after being fired.
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Supreme Court tackles clash of Catholic schools, ex-teachers
A case about the appropriate separation between church and state is taking center stage at the Supreme Court, which is hearing arguments by telephone for a second week because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Divided court reexamines insurance coverage of contraceptives
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court apparently seem divided over a case involving The Little Sisters of the Poor which concerns a Trump administration ruling allowing religious employer exemptions for contraceptive coverage in health plans.