Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

We are all legal nerds here, and we know that precedents set in any area of the law ripples out across our lives in so many ways.

Our right to religious freedom is one of the most sacred areas of the law, protecting almost every aspect of our daily lives.

Rights we all hold dear, like LGBTQ rights, freedom to choose the type of

health care you need, and ensuring a well-funded and inclusive public school system. Protecting the

separation of church and state is, in fact, protecting the very foundation of our democracy.

If you're looking for ways to more deeply understand the connection of and from religion

to so many of the civil justice issues

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held in D.C. and virtually, April 25th to the 27th, 26. At Surf, advocates, organizers,

faith leaders, atheists, and everyone in between come together to take on the growing threats of Christian nationalism and the efforts to impose one narrow religious belief on us all.

This is a movement for big change and collaboration across the entire spectrum of religious belief and non-belief that strengthens our democracy, protects public schools, reproductive and LGBTQ rights, and more.

Be part of the movement that's pushing back and standing up for freedom.

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Hi all. Leah here. We have a great episode in store for you featuring a conversation with an

expert, the expert, on how autocrats use law and courts to turn democracies into autocracies,

an update about all of the legal Grinch moves the administration tried to pull over the

holiday season and a conversation about Trump's judicial nominees in the second term. But

before we get there, we all woke up Saturday morning to learn that the FIFA Peace Prize recipient himself, President Donald J. Trump, the Dove, had launched a military invasion of Venezuela and kidnapped its president, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife, Siliya Flores, who the Attorney General subsequently told us are being charged with crimes in the United States.

We knew you all would want to learn

about this, so we are incredibly thankful that Rebecca Beck Ingber, Professor of Law,

Cardozo and former counselor on international law, the State Department, has once again agreed to get

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