Sarah Parshall Perry is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
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In a rare unanimous ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court secured a major victory for free speech. In the opinion in Shurtleff v. Boston, authored… Read More
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In 2008, when coach Joseph Kennedy knelt in silent prayer at the 50-yard line of the Bremerton High School football field after a game, he… Read More
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in… Read More
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Opponents of occupational licensing secured a victory this week in their battle against excessive state regulations that erect barriers to competition in various fields. One… Read More
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On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a religious organization claiming it had the right to refuse to hire individuals who… Read More
EducationCommentary
In a terrific win for parents, hardworking students, and those who want to end discrimination in our schools, a federal judge has thrown out the… Read More
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Some U.S. Court of Appeals have a long history of issuing decisions that are demonstrably hostile to wedding artists seeking to exercise their First Amendment… Read More
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The Violence Against Women Act is once again up for debate and a vote in the Senate. The previous iteration of the bill failed last… Read More
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This week, we revealed that an obscure federal agency plans to keep lists of the “personal religious information” employees who had religious objections to the… Read More
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For nearly 100 million American workers waiting breathlessly for an answer, a Thursday Supreme Court decision delivered good news for many, although not all. In… Read More
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A tiny administrative agency in the District of Columbia announced a new policy Tuesday that will likely serve as a model for a whole-of-government push… Read More
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday in two cases on an emergency basis. Both cases involve lawsuits stemming from the Biden administration’s attempt to… Read More
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In one of many ongoing federal lawsuits challenging COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the country, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern… Read More
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A prohibition on distributing government funds to “sectarian,” or religious, schools is written into the constitutions of 36 states. Such provisions are known as Blaine… Read More
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The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act. The law… Read More
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In Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, the Supreme Court will decide whether Congress meant to create a private right of action to sue for compensatory damages… Read More
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We are only a month into the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term and abortion already appears to be this season’s defining topic. The court heard arguments… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Texas Heartbeat Act, known as SB 8, is once again up for consideration before the Supreme Court as a result of two consolidated cases…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Americans in many states support significant restrictions on abortion. Accordingly, policymakers are working across the country to enact policies that reflect this consensus, rooted in… Read More
EducationCommentary
To our knowledge, not a single state, school district, or individual school has banned students from wearing masks in the classroom. Yet, the ever-politicized Office… Read More
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Public school employees Brooke Henderson and Jennifer Lumley have had it with the racially discriminatory training sessions taking place in their school district in Springfield,… Read More
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The long march of gender ideology through our laws and government institutions lately seems more like a mad dash. But that advance hit a high… Read More
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At least one case slated to be heard in the Supreme Court’s next term promises to be very controversial: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. In Dobbs,… Read More
EducationCommentary
According to a lawsuit filed by the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of teacher Stacy Deemar, the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 in northern Illinois has… Read More
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Louisiana legislators fell heartbreakingly short of protecting girls and women in sports on Wednesday. In a 68-to-30 vote, the Louisiana House of Representatives narrowly missed… Read More
EducationCommentary
California schools are obsessed with race. One school district in the Bay Area has enforced mandatory, critical race theory-based “ethnic studies” lessons beginning in preschool…. Read More
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In a heartbreaking move for conservative court watchers, on Monday the Supreme Court denied a petition to review the case of Gavin Grimm v. Gloucester… Read More
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The Supreme Court issued a win Wednesday for Brandi Levy, a former Mahanoy Area School District student known to court watchers as the “cussing cheerleader.”… Read More
EducationCommentary
Americans can’t say they weren’t warned. During his Senate committee confirmation hearing in February, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona affirmed his support for transgender athletes during a line of… Read More
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Editor’s note: The following is satire. Consider the wild success that the Biden administration has enjoyed in its unilateral modification of the term “sex” in… Read More
