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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how to handle disagreements over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys, an issue that has played a role throughout his case over the 2015 racist slayings of nine … [Read more...] about Dylann Roof Takes Church Shooting Appeal to US Supreme Court

By Tom Strode WASHINGTON (BP) – An effort by congressional Democrats to enshrine an unprecedented abortion right in federal law failed Monday (Feb. 28). The Senate refused to consider the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), voting 48-46 against invoking cloture. All the Republicans who were present – as well as a single Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia – … [Read more...] about Senate Rejects Attempt To Expand Abortion Rights

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers on Monday advanced a bill that would prevent the teaching that any race, ethnicity or biological sex is superior to another in public K-12 schools and colleges and universities. The “Anti-Racism Act of 2022” passed the Senate Education Committee and will now go before the full … [Read more...] about W.VA. Lawmakers Advance Second Bill About Teaching on Race

(The Christian Post) The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Christian college in Massachusetts that tried to use a ministerial exception to end a lawsuit by a former professor whom lower courts ruled could sue for alleged discrimination.  In an orders list released Monday, the Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari from Gordon … [Read more...] about Supreme Court Rejects Christian College’s Bid to Halt Pro-LGBT Professor’s Discrimination Lawsuit

By Tom Strode WASHINGTON (BP) – The White House announced Friday morning (Feb. 25) President Biden’s historic nomination of federal appeals court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Jackson, who serves on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, is the first African American woman nominated to the Supreme Court. Biden had pledged during the … [Read more...] about Biden Selects Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as First Supreme Court Nominee