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1 week ago | 
eppc.org | George Weigel |Rachel Morrison |Eric Kniffin |Jamie Hall
Published April 16, 2025 Syndicated Column Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that the wood of the manger anticipates the wood of the Cross: that Christmas points to Easter, but only by traversing the Via Crucis to Calvary.
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1 week ago | 
eppc.org | Rachel Morrison |George Weigel |Eric Kniffin |Jamie Hall
Published April 15, 2025 The Federalist Society On April 11, 2025, the Trump Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a “clarification” document “out of an abundance of caution” to “clarify and emphasize” that gender dysphoria is not a protected disability under federal disability discrimination regulations.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
eppc.org | Eric Kniffin |Natalie Dodson |Jamie Hall |Rachel Morrison
Published December 27, 2024 PDF On December 27, 2024, EPPC Scholars Eric Kniffin, Natalie Dodson, and Jamie Bryan Hall submitted a public comment opposing a proposed rule, “Enhancing Coverage of Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act,” that would require health plans to provide free coverage of all over-the-counter contraceptives without a prescription. The proposed rule by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor would expand the existing...
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Patrick Brown |Eric N. Kniffin |Jamie Hall
Published June 18, 2024PDFIn June 2022, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, correctly finding that the Constitution did not contain a right to abortion. In the two years since, states have been passing laws to protect the unborn child in the womb—and create a society in which pregnant women, and the babies they carry, receive the support they are due.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
eppc.org | George Weigel |Patrick Brown |Francis X. Maier |Jamie Hall
Published June 18, 2024 Defending Life After Dobbs Abortion advocates often argue that one key reason abortion should remain legal is because of its supposed necessity in cases when parents receive a fetal diagnosis of a “life-limiting condition” such as a fetal anomaly, genetic disorder, or other disability.[1] In these cases, they say, parents expecting an otherwise “wanted” child should be able to choose abortion in order to spare themselves and their child the suffering that would result,...
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Jamie Hall |George Weigel |Patrick Brown |Francis X. Maier
Published June 14, 2024Regulation.govOn June 14, 2024, EPPC scholar Jamie Bryan Hall submitted a public comment opposing key provisions of a USDA rule to implement changes to work requirements for food stamps recipients. The proposed rule purports to implement changes mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA), last summer’s bipartisan legislation that prevented the federal government from defaulting on its debt obligations.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Jamie Hall |Thomas W. Spoehr |Edmund Haislmaier
Whatever else Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) campaign for a 28th Amendment gets wrong about guns, at least it implicitly admits that the Democratic Party’s gun control wish list is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. After all, why propose an amendment if the Constitution doesn't forbid what you want to accomplish? Leaving Newsom’s admission aside, however, his 28th Amendment would accomplish nothing, at least nothing good.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Jamie Hall |Thomas W. Spoehr |Edmund Haislmaier |Breccan Thies
Maine is back in court over its tuition assistance program for rural families as a Catholic school and parents are suing over the state's exclusion of faith-based schools. St. Dominic Academy, a high school in the Diocese of Portland, and parents Keith and Valori Radonis are suing Maine for barring them from using funds from the assistance program for expressing religious belief.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Adam Carrington |Jamie Hall
The media has given outsized attention to minor modifications to work requirements for welfare recipients in the debt ceiling deal between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Such modifications will have a relatively modest impact despite the fact that Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike overwhelmingly support work requirements.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
citywatchla.com | Jamie Hall
ENVIRONMENT - The YIMBYs and uber progressives claim that even more CEQA reform is necessary after the Berkeley People's Park decision because environmental review is an impediment to the creation of housing.
But let's look at the City of Los Angeles as an example, the largest City in the state, to see if this logic holds up.
In 2022, the City conducted just 21 Negative Declarations/Mitigated Negative Declarations.
And the City conducted just one SCEA in 2022.
