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Byline: Glenn Kessler 'When the government ensured that the Little Sisters of the Poor wouldn't have to violate their religious beliefs, my opponent @JoshShapiroPA sued them and forced them to [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that three Muslim men may seek monetary damages from the government agents they say placed them on a no-fly [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that three Muslim men may seek monetary damages from the government agents they say placed them on a no-fly [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - Three Muslim men who said they were placed for years on a 'no-fly' list because they refused to become FBI informants told the Supreme Court [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that three Muslim men may seek monetary damages from the government agents they say placed them on a no-fly list because [...]

Byline: Editorial Board ONCE AGAIN, the Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, which requires nearly all health insurance plans to cover [...]

Byline: Katie Zezima The California Assembly has passed a bill allowing San Francisco to open a facility where people can use illegal drugs under supervision, one of several local efforts [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker Vice President Mike Pence, an evangelical Christian, has imparted graduation advice to a narrow slice of American students - those gaining degrees from religious colleges and military [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade. And that's the thing I wish the [...]

Byline: Julie Zauzmer WASHINGTON - Prominent Senate Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would amend the 25-year-old Religious Freedom Restoration Act to prevent the law from being used to justify [...]

Byline: Julie Zauzmer Prominent Senate Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would amend the 25-year-old Religious Freedom Restoration Act to prevent the law from being used to justify discrimination against [...]

Byline: Kristine Guerra The 7-year-old boy had a total of 36 deep purple bruises across his back, on his arm and on his thigh. He had a loop mark on [...]

Byline: Carol Logan What would you do if the government needlessly bulldozed your place of worship? That is what happened to me, and that is why I will be seeking [...]

Byline: Louise Melling Iknoor Singh, a student at Hofstra University, thought he had found his calling when he attended a campus meeting of the U.S. Army's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe A court case working its way through the military justice system raises a basic question: Should a member of the military be allowed to post a religious [...]

Byline: Anne Gearan WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton is denouncing legislative efforts in Indiana and Arkansas that opponents say discriminate against gay people. That puts her in line with her [...]

Byline: Anne Gearan WASHINGTON - Soon-to-be-official Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is denouncing legislative efforts in Indiana and Arkansas that supporters say protect religious expression and opponents say discriminate [...]

Byline: Tobin Grant Indiana became ground zero for the fight over LGBT rights last week when Gov. Mike Pence signed into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, also more commonly [...]

Byline: Dan Balz WASHINGTON - The controversy over Indiana's religious freedom law highlights the most fundamental divisions that now define American politics. For all the recent talk that foreign policy [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'After last year's Hobby Lobby case, Indiana properly brought the same version that then-state Senator Barack Obama voted for in Illinois before our legislature. . . . [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh In yesterday's EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. decision, a federal district court held in favor of an employer who was sued under Title [...]

Byline: Julie Zauzmer Mike Pence, Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Friday morning, is Trump's vice presidential nominee. The Republican governor of Indiana who will soon stand by Trump's side [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh The Citadel, a public military college run by South Carolina, 'will not allow a Muslim student to wear a hijab, an exception she had requested to the [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes The Obama administration said a compromise floated by the Supreme Court to resolve objections from religious organizations to providing their employees with contraceptives would work only if [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes Two years ago, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy played down the impact of the decision he had just joined in Hobby Lobby v. Burwell that relieved religiously objecting [...]

Byline: Charles Lane Conservatives are hailing the Supreme Court's 5 to 4 rulings in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Harris v. Quinn as victories for liberty, religious in the former [...]

Byline: Sandhya Somashekhar WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday narrowed the contraception mandate under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Here are the basics: Q: What is the mandate? A: [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court struck down a key part of President Barack Obama's health-care law Monday, ruling that family-owned businesses do not have to offer their [...]

The following editorial appeared in Tuesday's Washington Post: The Supreme Court on Tuesday devotes a double session to hear arguments on one of the most contentious pieces of the Affordable [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - There's something that makes the current Supreme Court different from some of its recent predecessors. The justices got religion. Or at least they seem more [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - A law championed by Senate Democrats (including one named Joe Biden) to undermine a Supreme Court ruling written by Justice Antonin Scalia has become the [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh Can your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job? This is one of the questions in the Kentucky County Clerk marriage certificate case. But [...]

Byline: Sarah Pulliam Bailey The First Church of Cannabis will host its inaugural service on Wednesday, but don't expect any cannabis. The church's founder Bill Levin said on Tuesday that [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz Wal-Mart issued a statement Tuesday asking Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) to veto the state's so-called religious freedom bill, which is similar to the controversial Religious Freedom [...]

Byline: Sarah Kaplan Even as Indiana officials scramble to 'clarify' the state's new religious freedom law in the wake of criticism that it is anti-gay, two more state legislatures are [...]