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3 weeks ago | 
dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry
Catholic Charities performs religious works, according to a unanimous Supreme Court decision in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission. Was that really so hard? Apparently not. Per Justice Sonia Sotomayor, author of the majority opinion, “There may be hard calls to make” where the free exercise of religion is concerned, “but this is not one.” It took the Court less than two months to reach that unanimous decision, practically warp-speed as these matters go.
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4 weeks ago | 
dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry |John G. Malcolm
Recently, two federal courts ruled against the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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1 month ago | 
dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry
Today, even with President Trump’s victory, leftist elites have their tentacles in every aspect of our government.
The Daily Signal’s own Tyler O’Neil exposes this leftist cabal in his new book, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.
In this book, O’Neil reveals how the Left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.
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1 month ago | 
dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry
Even in non-election years, improving election integrity is a winning issue for state legislators. Proof of their interest is in the laws adopted by several states in the early months of 2025, laws that have produced considerable improvements in how those states secure and manage their elections.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
heritage.org | Jack Fitzhenry
In 2016, the Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission ruled that the Catholic Charities Bureau is ineligible for an unemployment tax exemption. The state permits exemptions for organizations “operated primarily for religious purposes,” yet the Commission ultimately determined that Catholic Charities serves no “religious purpose” when it ministers to the poor, the elderly, and the infirm.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case testing the limits of the nondelegation doctrine, an issue that may sound lawyerly, but which is of the utmost importance in ensuring separation among the federal branches and accountability for the important decisions that affect us all. Nondelegation is the principle that one branch of government may not give away its power to another.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
heritage.org | Jack Fitzhenry
Literature hews to standards outside of the democratic logic. A canonical work does not attain that status by majority consent. Claims of merit do not require a reader’s consent to be authoritative. And the pursuit of sublimity, literature’s proper object, reveals that men have always been created unequal in their intellectual endowments. Literary excellence is not inherently political, and its claims need not raise a direct challenge to democracy.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
readlion.com | Adam Wittenberg |Jack Fitzhenry
The financial party has ended for those who owe student loans but the fallout is just beginning. After a nearly five-year hiatus, borrowers were required to resume loan payments in September, with delinquencies starting to pile up in January. Nationally, outstanding student loans total about $1.6 trillion, spread among more than 35 million borrowers.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry
Attorneys general in left-leaning states have been crowding into courtrooms to sue the Trump administration. This spectacle, the growing tangle of hastily issued injunctions preventing the enforcement of presidential executive orders, might lead some to think that they are observing the reverse side of a familiar pattern—one in which the party that lost a national election sends its state-level proxies into federal court to harass the party that won the White House.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry
It’s hardly a sign of civic health when a president begins his term by instructing his subordinates to abide by the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. Yet within hours of his oath of office, President Donald Trump did just that. In an executive action styled as “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” Trump signaled his intent to right a wrong that the Supreme Court refused to address last June when it dismissed the case Murthy v. Missouri.
