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Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Nicholas D. Sawicki
Could the ruling really mark the end of Blaine amendments?
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Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time advocate of abolishing the death penalty, has said that the Supreme Court has "abdicated its legal and moral responsibilities" in allowing executions to proceed in various cases.
People hold signs outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Jan. 22, 2020, ahead of oral arguments in a case from Montana on religious rights and school choice. The court is examining if states should give aid, in the form of tax credits, to private religious schools. (CNS photo/Sarah Silbiger, Reuters)
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Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
The court upheld a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling.
(CNS photo/Will Dunham, Reuters)
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Mark Sherman - Associated Press
The executions would mark the first use of the death penalty on the federal level since 2003.
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John Carlos Ramirez, Catholic News Service
Immigrant youth are hoping that the recent Supreme Court decision on DACA will help efforts to strengthen it, thereby allowing them to continue living in the United States without fear of deportation.
In this Dec. 15, 2018, file photo, Honduran asylum seekers are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents in San Diego. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
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J.D. Long García
Today’s court decision removes any judicial check on the Trump administration’s efforts to fast-track the deportations of asylum seekers who cannot show strong evidence of persecution in their home countries.