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A careful examination of the competing majority and dissenting opinions in a recent Seventh Circuit ruling shows that the majority faithfully applied religious-liberty principles in granting relief against the HHS contraception mandate and that the dissent repeatedly defied Supreme Court precedent.

In his latest copy-and-paste compilation, Seventh Circuit judge Richard Posner somehow sees fit to republish his reckless smear of the recent book, Reading Law, co-authored by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner.

In testimony invited by the United States Commission on Civil Rights, EPPC President Ed Whelan explains that the sweeping application of non-discrimination principles poses an increasingly severe threat to civil liberties, especially to our first liberty of religious freedom.

On CNN, EPPC President Ed Whelan debates the Boy Scouts’ proposed change of policy on gay members.

The Boy Scouts’ proposed revision to their policy on gays is incoherent and unworkable and would threaten ruin for lots of troops and scoutmasters.

EPPC President Ed Whelan’s amicus brief in defense of California’s Proposition 8 documents the egregious misconduct by lower-court judges in the case.

The Supreme Court should set right the relationship between marriage and federalism by ruling that both the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8 are constitutionally sound.

The future of marriage is at stake in the new cases before the Supreme Court. And so, ultimately, are the rights of faithful Catholics to participate fully in public life.

The Supreme Court ought to hold that the Defense of Marriage Act is constitutionally permissible—and it can't coherently invalidate DOMA without inventing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

In his second term, President Obama will likely lock up Justice Ginsburg's seat on the left for another generation and, if other vacancies arise, may threaten two or three decades of liberal dominance of the Supreme Court.

The Obama administration’s HHS mandate on contraception (including contraceptives that sometimes operate as abortifacients) violates the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and displays contempt for the religious views of those it seeks to coerce.

The future of the Supreme Court is at stake in this presidential election. If Mitt Romney is elected, he will very likely succeed in appointing strong conservative justices and in dramatically improving the Court.