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The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the 116 people who have been appointed and confirmed as justices to the Supreme Court. Some of these characteristics have been raised as an issue since the court was established in 1789.
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment. [1] The ruling has been the subject of intense debate. [2] [3 ...
Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203 (1997), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.In this case, the Court overruled its decision in Aguilar v.. Felton (1985), now finding that it was not a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment for a state-sponsored education initiative to allow public school teachers to instruct at religious schools, so long as ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The Supreme Court has decided, 7-2, that teachers in Catholic elementary schools are not covered by employment discrimination law. This is a highly important expansion of ...
The July 2020 ruling on that case relied on Hosanna-Tabor to rule in favor of the schools against the teachers. [4] The Obama Administration's case was argued by Leondra Kruger, who at the time worked under Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. In 2022, as a candidate for the Supreme Court, this led to questions about her views on freedom of ...
And as Kavanaugh’s comments indicate, the Supreme Court has regularly sided with churches and other religious groups. Their argument: The Constitution’s bar on the establishment of religion by ...
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. 507 (2022), is a landmark decision [1] by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held, 6–3, that the government, while following the Establishment Clause, may not suppress an individual from engaging in personal religious observance, as doing so would violate the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court last decided a case with ties to religion in 2023, siding with a graphic designer in Colorado who wanted to decline to make websites for same-sex weddings.